Pretty pumped to share that I’ll be joining the Colorado Rockies this year as a Performance Lab Assistant.
It’s truly a full circle moment for me to represent the hometown team and I can’t wait to get going.
Chase Burns got bored throwing 99-101 with a 92 mph slider against the first 5 batters he saw. So he decided to whip out a mid-80s hammer to end the 6th AB. 5 Ks already.
Good god.
It’s obvious Spencer Strider made a conscious effort to increase his extension and ind. vert on the heater this year; ie produce more extension to cheat vert.
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As the MLB draft approaches, let's discuss a critical oversight: Many organizations don't fully consider how different athlete profiles can be trained/developed, or even understand which physical traits are truly malleable.
We can use sprint data analysis to explore this🧵
This isn't a strict rule for how everyone's center of mass should operate, but rather a starting point for understanding how we control movement down the mound.
Pitch design actually does matter no matter how hard someone throws. Especially when your job relies on winning games.
Yes we want everyone to throw fuel with nasty stuff, but isn’t it a good idea to also meet a kid where he’s at & develop something to compete against hitters?