Blog Article The Many Swings of Bryce Harper — And The One Swing of Nick Kurtz. How many clubs should hitters have in the bag? August 3, 2025August 3, 2025 In the spring of 2013, former Washington Nationals hitting coordinator Rick Schu was collecting iconic swings from DVDs of Ken ...read more 2 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Pitching Lets Not Kid Ourselves, Greg Maddux Was A Unicorn. July 19, 2025July 22, 2025 Many have heard the message shouted through the chain-link fence of a local amateur field or read the comments in ...read more 11 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article Off‑Season Speed Training for Position Players – Part 3: Non‑Linear Running May 28, 2025May 28, 2025 Welcome to the third installment of our four‑part series on off‑season speed training for Minor League Baseball (MiLB) position players. ...read more 2 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article Tendon Adaptations in Throwers: Mechanisms and Applications May 15, 2025May 15, 2025 Introduction It’s hard to find a more dynamic and physically demanding task in sports than throwing. Whether it be a ...read more 5 Likes | 0 Comments
Pitch Design How to Throw a Slider June 21, 2020August 25, 2023 Welcome to Part 5 of our “How to Throw” series: How to Throw a Slider. In this segment, we are ...read more 15 Likes | 0 Comments
Research Kershaw, Sliders, Statcast: An Analysis of the Slickball Theory March 29, 2018April 7, 2021 Among talks of collusion, an ineffective player union and a growing discrepancy between contenders and non-contenders, this is as opportune ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Pitch Design Scaling Velocity & Useful Spin in Offspeed Pitches November 16, 2017November 20, 2023 We still don’t know a whole lot about spin rate. While we certainly know more about how to use it ...read more 0 Likes | 1 Comment
Pitch Design, Pitching Mechanics Reviewing Offspeed Pitches and Elbow Torque November 2, 2017November 20, 2023 With new research developments in other labs and our own facilities, we felt it was a good time to update ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Pitch Design Basics of Pitch Design Using Rapsodo April 23, 2017May 6, 2022 By this point, you’ve probably heard a lot about pitch design.But how exactly do we go about designing pitches?What are ...read more 1 Like | 3 Comments
Pitching Mechanics Fastballs vs. Offspeed Pitches – Comparative and Relative Elbow Stress February 15, 2017May 3, 2022 Offspeed/breaking pitches such as the curveball and slider have received so much attention and scorn in the last few years ...read more 4 Likes | 4 Comments