Troy Rallings was on top of the world in 2016. He had returned for his senior season at the University of Washington, forgoing the offer the Oakland Athletics made to him after drafting him in the 36th round. While he was battling arm fatigue, he held his closer role down. Heading into the series ag...
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 when I started this journey. That being said, there are serious risks when training with weighted implements, and Mike...
“It’s no joke to try to get yourself from 95 mph to 100 mph in one offseason.” The Bump in the Road When we wrote, previously, about Casey Weathers, his troubles after Tommy John recovery and his return to baseball after two elbow surgeries, the piece ended on a hopeful, positive note – a free...
This post was written by Dr. James Buffi. Most people have heard of Sir Isaac Newton and his famous laws of motion. Most have not heard that he was an expert in modern pitching biomechanics. So let’s talk about how Newton’s most famous law relates to pitching. Newton’s most famous law of motion is p...
This is a guest post from Dr. James H. Buffi, Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. It is impossible to overstate how excited I am to have Dr. Buffi contribute to our blog in what will be the first article in a three-part series on the biomechanics of pitching. In 2014, Dr. Buffi had a paper published ti...
