Strength in Numbers #45
I will introduce you to a person in the baseball industry that you have likely never heard of, but you'll get tons of insight from him in this week's newsletter and podcast.
In my career, I have always been interested in those in the industry that work with injured athletes and rebuild deliveries to create resilient throwing arms. But, even…
Strength in Numbers #44
For 20 years, I have been reading research to advance throwing and hitting performance and to be honest...
I've had been wasting my time!
Like most people communicating findings from studies, I put a lot of stock in "statistically significant" data, thinking it was "practically significant" data.
About five years ago,…
Strength in Numbers #43
I am not writing this newsletter to scare you. I am writing this newsletter to deliver facts as amateur baseball has kicked off across the country.
What I am about to write about can save your season, your athletes' sanity, and your parent's enjoyment, as they are the primary caretaker for…
Strength in Numbers #42
Along my career path, I have always wondered about the key ingredients for success at the highest level of play. What is interesting is that my findings are consistent throughout all of baseball.
Everything points to:
Throwing arm strength, Biomechanics, Motor learning, and Psychology.
In this week's newsletter, I want to…
Strength in Numbers #41
You have all seen it on social media. Baseball industry leader X puts something out into the digital world, and baseball contrarian Y disagrees.
From there, baseball industry leader X rebuttals baseball contrarian Y, then baseball contrarian Y goes on the defense and attacks baseball industry leader X. Finally, the conversation…
Strength in Numbers #40
We all struggle with something. That's called life, but imagine you are doing something you love, something you have committed to since you were six years old, you make it, and then you lose your passion and step away? This happened to one of the athletes I had the opportunity to work with,…
Strength in Numbers #39
Scouting used to be an art and not a science. Yet, baseball has adopted more objective insights in evaluating talent in the current landscape.
Scouting has expanded from ball flight characteristics such as spin rates, break charting, spin efficiency, throwing velocities, exit velocities, and launch angles to appreciate process metrics associated…
Strength in Numbers #38
In overseeing the performance of your athletes, are you for or against the thought of involving data? It's a question that many people in the baseball industry face.
Is more data useful data? How do I know what data is the right data to go by in working with my athletes? …
Strength in Numbers #37
It has been an incredibly busy week for us. Our list of Certified ArmCare Specialists has been growing, and I am starting to get questions from students about running research studies involving our technology.
The best part of what we offer is that anyone can be a sports scientist. Below are the main features in sports…
Strength in Numbers #36
Baseball and softball are similar in some ways but very different in others. Nothing is more evident than the pitching delivery between overhand and underhand.
When you look at the movements between both deliveries, softball deliveries start with the toes pointed toward home plate, opposed to baseball pitchers who have their toes oriented at 90…