Comments on: Link/Video: Mariners Strength Program

By: Doug Fister, Velocity, Strikeouts, and Hard Work | Driveline Baseball

Doug Fister, Velocity, Strikeouts, and Hard Work | Driveline Baseball — Tue, 31 May 2011 23:47:30 +0000

[...] and throwing program, we know he’s been doing more of it. And we also know that the Seattle Mariners use Dr. Marcus Elliot’s programs for many of their athletes, which revolves around free weights, medicine balls, and integrating biomechanical analysis [...]

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:42:37 +0000

Bill,

Absolutely – I know that plenty of outstanding trainers have been doing great work outside of MLB organizations, but there’s not a lot of this inside the organizations. As you said, they get shut out of the industry because it’s too “atypical” or too dangerous – can’t have fragile pitchers doing scary-looking things like box jumps and deadlifts!

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:10:09 +0000

Hi Kyle,

Great to see the evolution, however, instructors like Ron Wolforth, Brent Strom, Paul Reddick, Jeff Cavaliere, Perry Husband and Dr. Mike Marshall and Tom House have been utilizing this training for several years with amazing results only to be shunned and hammered by the baseball industry.

I, too, am glad an organization “gets it.”

By: Trip Somers

Trip Somers — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:13:53 +0000

The 3P contract is exclusive. If someone else can duplicate what 3P does, then the training won’t be exclusive. Until then, though…

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:38:13 +0000

He mentioned the Mariners having “exclusive rights” to the training program for the next 3 years. How can the rights to a certain type of training be owned?