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I want to help young players get better at pitching. I've spent the last 30 years continually improving at the craft in a way I think is exceptionally unique. While 99% of pitchers train in the exact same way with the same cues and drills, I've found a completely different, often antithetical approach has worked for me. I think it will help others too.
This offseason I'm offering a one-on-one remote coaching service, as well as continuing to make more YouTube videos explaining the concepts I believe are fundamental to MLB pitchers.
Check out the website at stockyardbaseball.com
This offseason I'm offering a one-on-one remote coaching service, as well as continuing to make more YouTube videos explaining the concepts I believe are fundamental to MLB pitchers.
Check out the website at stockyardbaseball.com
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People mistakenly believe the things they did when they were young were superior because they remember feeling so good at the time. It’s called “youth” and it makes everything feel amazing 😂
Jeff Teague says the workouts got easier in the NBA and he actually got hurt more than he did in college
“No, they care. It’s just the way you train. Like Gil said it. I remember I got hurt because the way I started training when I got to the NBA, it was different than when I ollege. Like, I was a machine in college.”
“When I worked out with them football dudes, I was a machine. As soon as I got to the league and the workouts went to more easier things, like, ‘All right, just three sets of this, get a little core’, all of a sudden I start having knee pains. All of a sudden I start having all these other things.”
“Then at the end of my career, I started lifting like I did in high school and college and stuff, and I’m like, ‘Oh, I feel good.’ But my body done already had that wear and tear. It was over with.”
“And now I lift like we did when I was in college. Now my knees don’t hurt. Now I feel good. And I’m like, ‘I’m 40.’ It ain’t pointless because you’re trying to be healthy forever. But while you’re in the league, that stuff do matter. I should have been lifting like I was in college.”
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Does that mean they could have been doing things better in the past? Absolutely. But judging based solely on how you felt at 20 isn’t very informative.
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Every coach I ever had along the way that had pro experience was 10x more relaxed than non-pro experience. Playing pro means you understand how little the results mean at an amateur level and you can focus on processes that matter.
Always easy to tell which parents played at a high level previously. It's calm, measured communication with their kids.
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The most common, dumb as rocks gripe from an amateur coach was worrying about the energy levels of the bench players during the game. “I looked over in the 3rd inning and the dugout was flat”. Next common was running for errors during practice. Less time spent practicing and more spent doing cross country because the coach can’t incentivize focus any other way…
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One of the most valuable skills a player can have is the ability to understand what's holding them back. You can't fix something if you don't know what's broken. And players usually don't understand just how good they have to be if they want a "fair shake" at the next level.
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If you want a throw from CF and the pitcher's mound to both cross home at 95mph it'll take over 2 seconds for the CF throw to reach home. If you want both distances to take the same amount of time, you need to throw the CF throw over 1600mph.
@Teacherman1986 @RobertStock6 Come on, that can’t be true in all cases. Is a ball fired from a cannon at the CF wall easier to hit than thrown from the mound?
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This is why when you watch the Little League World Series and they tell you the "major league equivalent" of a pitch based on reaction time it's a laughable joke.
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These new button batteries taste like crap and make your mouth all blue. 0/10 do not recommend.
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I've seen people make the argument that moving the mound back would give pitches more time to move (true) and therefore make the pitches more difficult to hit (speculation). Every piece of actual data points to a lesser reaction time being more important than absolute movement.
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There are successful slow, big breakers, but those succeed because they're low usage pitches, thrown in opportune counts to good spots by skilled pitchers. Not because the pitch in a vacuum is so good.
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RT @weltszzn: food and drinks consumed in a movie theater doesn't really go into your body. it goes into your movie theater body which is s…
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Big vs. small market equity is sports’ version of the population vs. state representation argument. Extremes aren't the right answer, it's somewhere in the middle. Players shoulder some sacrifice to help things be equitable and so do owners. Salary cap is all players.
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A salary cap seems like wanting to split the dividends of a stock and none of the appreciation. If the stock doesn’t pay a dime in dividends but goes up in value, it’s obviously a valuable stock. The second a salary cap is inked franchise values would SOAR. Clear L for players.
I don't know what the conditions are for MLBPA accepting a salary cap.
But MLB's approach to splitting the pie is "OK, we'll split the pie, but everything that grows is going to be over here in MLB's pie store, and we're not fucking sharing any of that"
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It’s not an accident if you look at total player earnings vs franchise values, MLB players make 50% more than the other leagues. Some of NFL/NHL/NBA franchise value is BECAUSE they don’t have to pay the players near what they’re worth in a free market.
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Baseball games are broadcast by guys who have a really poor grasp of what actual analytics are, and then fans interpret what they’re hearing poorly. It’s a terrible game of “telephone”. If these guys actually understood what “analytics” are they wouldn’t have a problem with them.
I miss when "hitting" actually meant "getting a hit" in a game, rather than some MS in Data Science saying you had "superb exit velocity" in BP.
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For instance every coach and player knows you shouldn’t worry about if the ball fell in for a hit. You should worry about if you hit it on the screws because over time hitting it well leads to a good outcome. Can’t beat yourself up for an unlucky game. “Analytics” just defines what it means to hit the ball well or not.
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This is one example of 100. Analytics is process oriented over short term results. Like any coach ever strives to be. Some guys just really hate putting an actual value on what those processes and results look like.
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Loved Digger. Incredible acting. Almost a modern "Dr. Strangelove". Not quite as good, but that's asking for perfection. High quality movie, not sure why the critics are so wrong on this one.
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