With injuries to pitchers costing major league baseball teams more than $420 million a year, you can imagine that injury prevention is a huge part of the day-to-day operation for most teams. The injury that we keep hearing about is a UCL tear requiring “Tommy John” surgery, but another injury is lurking: Thoracic Outlet Syndrome….
Many people ask me, “How do I pitch like Marcus Stroman“? I usually say first pick his parents but then I get serious and show them how to put all his cards on the table. Marcus Stroman is an elite athlete, just learning his pitching mechanics isn’t enough to emulate his abilities on the mound….
If I was in a room of conventional baseball coaches and I said, “Arm speed is poor contributor to pitching velocity,” you would probably hear the crickets living in the room. Why do most coaches and commentators in this game believe pitching velocity is the result of arm speed and arm strength? Because they believe…
Yes, weighted baseball training causes serious injury. It is a hard reality, but anything that tries to force a physical gain in a short period of time, in a sport that already has a pattern of throwing related injury, usually comes with serious consequences. The problem today is, either people are ignorant of this or…
There is a major misconception in baseball that believes the opposite of a most recent case study that found Pro Pitchers Stress Arm Less than Youth Pitchers. We also have a case study that shows the internal rotation speeds of the shoulder slow down from the college to professional level as ball speeds increase. So…
