Blog Article How power ages (It might surprise you) October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 Conventional wisdom posits that power improves with age. It suggests slugging prowess is a rare skill that ages well, becoming ...read more 5 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Pitching The search for missing pitches. Are we early or late in the evolution of pitch design? September 22, 2025September 24, 2025 In each recent season we have witnessed a trendy pitch proliferate pro baseball. We saw the sweeper spread across baseball ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article In Search of A Smarter Pitch Count September 11, 2025September 11, 2025 There have been only two instances of a major league pitcher reaching 120 pitches in a game since the start ...read more 3 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article Off-Season Speed Training for Position Players – Part 4: Change of Direction September 5, 2025September 5, 2025 This is the final installment of our four-part series detailing the elements of the speed training program we implemented with ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Pitching Mechanics Does Arm Speed in Pitchers Matter? December 28, 2016May 16, 2022 A common criticism of training using overload/underload implements is that training using weighted balls only trains arm speed, and that ...read more 5 Likes | 0 Comments
Research Weighted Baseball Research and the Data Supporting Their Use December 15, 2016May 16, 2022 With the recent release of ASMI’s Biomechanical Analysis of Weighted-Ball Exercises for Baseball Pitchers we decided that it was appropriate ...read more 1 Like | 8 Comments
Research, Velocity Training Is Long Toss with Weighted Baseballs Less Stressful on the Arm? August 24, 2016May 16, 2022 This article was written by Kyle Boddy, who is the head of the Research and Development department of Driveline Baseball. Kyle designed ...read more 0 Likes | 7 Comments
Pitching Mechanics A More Forward Approach to Understanding Pitching Biomechanics February 23, 2015January 7, 2021 This is part two of three of the initial guest posts by Dr. James Buffi. Part one was titled Challenges with ...read more 2 Likes | 3 Comments
Pitching Mechanics, Research Challenges with Typical Biomechanical Analyses of Pitching February 18, 2015April 6, 2021 This is a guest post from Dr. James H. Buffi, Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. It is impossible to overstate how ...read more 3 Likes | 13 Comments
Velocity Training Overuse is Not the Problem: Undertraining is the Devil November 8, 2012April 5, 2021 I’ve been trying to put this article into words for the better part of a year and debated completely shelving ...read more 1 Like | 10 Comments
Pitching Mechanics, Youth Baseball Young Arms and Curveballs: The Real Story Behind it All March 22, 2012July 2, 2021 Two weeks ago, the NY Times published an article titled Young Arms and Curveballs: A Scientific Twist. In the article, ...read more 1 Like | 10 Comments
Pitching Mechanics Reviewing ASMI’s Biomechanical Analysis of Dr. Marshall’s Pitchers (Focus: Performance/Velocity) October 10, 2011April 5, 2021 I’ve been meaning to write on this subject for quite some time, and if it’s received well, I’ll write more ...read more 4 Likes | 7 Comments
Pitching Mechanics Relationship of Shoulder External Rotation to Pitching July 14, 2011 Readers who like a research-specific bent may find my latest postings on the ASMI Message Boards interesting. I am going ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Pitching Mechanics Stephen Strasburg, Mechanics, and his "Timing Flaw" March 8, 2011April 5, 2021 Tom Verducci has a very interesting article about Stephen Strasburg: Mechanical flaw will be red flag for Strasburg even after ...read more 0 Likes | 2 Comments