Discussing "The Arm" by Jeff Passan
On Monday, March 28th, 2016, Jeff Passan released an excerpt from his upcoming book, The Arm (Amazon link), on Yahoo Sports. Jeff's work is a culmination of four years of...
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Are "Safe" Training Methods Causing More Injuries?
I spoke a little bit about the consequences of safety from a baseball training side in a previous blog post, but there's another side of this paradigm, which is a little counterintuitive...
Weighted Baseballs, Safety, and Consequences
The larger and larger support that weighted baseball training is gaining not only on the Internet but in professional baseball is something that I could not have predicted years ago...
Demonizing Weighted Balls - A Review of Criticisms
A common line of argument against training with weighted balls goes something like this: “Weighted balls only train the arm. Good pitching training trains the athlete to use the whole body...
Indy Ball Shortstop to 100 MPH to Signed: the Spencer Mahoney Story
"It doesn’t matter how you get there, as long as you’re putting in the effort." The Road Less Traveled Can Be The Fast Lane Spencer Mahoney played four years of...
Efficient Front Leg Mechanics that Lead to High Velocity
The lead leg block in pitching is rarely understood correctly and is often analyzed from a baseball-specific viewpoint. Looking closer at the pitching mechanics of the lead leg may require...