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 Efficient Front Leg Mechanics that Lead to High Velocity December 23, 2015August 30, 2022 The lead leg block in pitching is rarely understood correctly and is often analyzed from a baseball-specific viewpoint. Looking closer ...read more 3 Likes | 5 Comments
Pitching Mechanics Lower Half Pitching Mechanics: Data-Driven Analysis July 24, 2015March 22, 2023 While it is the subject of most articles on “pitching mechanics”, the role of the lower half when it comes ...read more 2 Likes | 2 Comments
Pitching Mechanics, Research Why Sir Isaac Newton is Still the Foremost Expert in Pitching Biomechanics April 29, 2015April 6, 2021 This post was written by Dr. James Buffi. Most people have heard of Sir Isaac Newton and his famous laws ...read more 1 Like | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Research, Strength Training How to Pitch Faster: Using Rotational Lateral Bounds to Improve Pelvic Loading February 2, 2015March 22, 2023 The lateral bound, also called the lateral skater jump or lateral heiden (named after former Olympic speed skater Eric Heiden) ...read more 0 Likes | 5 Comments
Pitching Mechanics Hacking a Pitcher’s Arm Action: A hidden power of overload training December 20, 2014July 2, 2021 This article lays out the case disputing “weighted baseball training being more injurious to pitchers than regular baseball throwing”, and talks ...read more 1 Like | 3 Comments
Blog Article, Miscellaneous / Historical, Strength Training Velocity Training: Perfecting the Overhead Medball Throw December 10, 2014June 10, 2022 Plyometric training is a key component to developing explosive power that can be applied to the throwing motion. This revelation ...read more 0 Likes | 4 Comments
Velocity Training How to Transfer Weighted Baseball Velocity Gains to the Mound November 2, 2014May 17, 2022 We’ve uploaded a bunch of awesome videos in recent history on our YouTube channel of guys throwing 100+ MPH, so ...read more 0 Likes | 3 Comments
Pitching Mechanics Momentum and Arm Action: Myths and Misunderstandings April 28, 2014April 5, 2021 Pitching mechanics is a difficult subject to talk about, and one that I don’t touch lightly on this blog. Covering ...read more 1 Like | 14 Comments
Velocity Training On Velocity Being the Most Important Thing in Pitching October 17, 2013July 22, 2021 I am fortunate enough to have a handful of acquaintances who work in professional baseball that I can freely discuss ...read more 2 Likes | 4 Comments
Velocity Training Roger Bannister and the 95 MPH Fastball July 3, 2013January 7, 2021 Contrary to the article’s title, Roger Bannister was not a flamethrowing lefty. He was, in fact, the first man to ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments