New trend in high level pitchers isn’t a singular new pitch. (ie: sweeper, death ball, “seam shift”, etc) It’s having a large arsenal. Like 6+ pitches large. 2-3 high stuff pitches 3-4 average pitches The trend has already started but I bet it amplifies even further in 2025.

Wanna know why you can’t get outs? Cause you don’t practice getting outs. You think getting in a facility to get your velo up, or getting another new pitch will suddenly make you get outs. Go face hitters, use only your worst two pitches. Get em out. Then do it again and again

Give me the wolf on the right

Go get em champ

Progress your mobility work Once you’ve hit a point doing the same thing over and over for your mobility work isn’t going anywhere. Add weight, add banded resistance, add time (if doing an iso), there’s plenty of options to make yourself stronger in those positions

The only rule you should follow during your training is that it needs to work Does your warm up, warm you up? Do your drills actually work on mechanical deficiencies? Does your velo program positively affect your velocity? Do your workouts make you more robust and resilient?

Building self confidence in athletes is good, but you have to show them or tell them they suck sometimes. Having self confidence is good, having a huge ego is not. You’re doing them a disservice if you let them go around thinking their shit doesn’t stink.

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60% of the time it works everytime

Stop watching video of yourself 1) You probably don’t know what to look for 2) You probably don’t know how to fix something you find wrong 3) You’re just going to dome yourself up 4) Your biased, it won’t be a genuine breakdown. You’re looking for something wrong.

@JohnEcreel Roughly, fruit till noon and copious amounts of raw honey, maple syrup just melted weight off

Changes to HHL in 24/25 Kneeling Yeets (Monday/Thursday) turned into lower half constrained long toss Full body velo (Tuesday/Friday) got split into constrained velocity sessions and max velo sessions (Constrained velo sessions were used to learn to move in a tighter window)

You don’t need 9 drills for each moving part in your mechanics Something in the upper half not working well? Take away the lower half and yeet balls from the knees Something not working well on the transfer of energy up the chain? Just yeet balls as far or as hard as possible

I don’t know much about training but here are some things I do know: 1) the people you train with affect your training 2) the environment/culture matters more than you think 3) people don’t join based on your word, they join by actions and words of their peers

RT @Gabriel_Noyalis: One more thing… If you’re a player already in an org with the goal of advancing through the system, or you are lookin…

Drills are dead. Yeeting is alive. INSTRUCTIONS: 1) Grab ball 2) Yeet ball 3) Repeat steps 2 and 3 until satisfied MORE RULES: 1) Don’t think, just yeet 2) Absolutely no “feels”

Youth athlete 10-12 years old: “hey what can I do to get my velo up?” Me: *ponders for a couple seconds* “Grow up”

@betch_baseball Thanks Andrew

Teaching youth pitchers (13 and younger) Easiest way to get them to learn something and have it stick. Have their goal be to have you not talk as much as possible, unless otherwise needed. They listen literally all day, you’re giving them a chance to finally have a voice.