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Season 4 Episode 8 is out with Caleb Longley. Caleb is the CEO of Marv Training and currently the coordinator of hitting and pitching development at the University of Texas. Before Texas, Caleb was the director of hitting analytics at Arizona State University. Caleb worked closely with all technologies such as Trackman, Yakkertech, Rapsodo, Synergy, and Baseball Cloud. All of these technologies would help to replicate opponents for practice plans and development strategies for individual players.

Caleb started MARV Training while training Quarterbacks for QB Takeover. Quarterback Takeover is one of the most elite quarterback training programs in the country. QB Takeover is "designed to give young athletes the mental toughness needed to lead a team, the skills necessary to execute and the mindset to make the right calls when the game is on the line" – QB Takeover. During this time Caleb worked with Power 5 QB's to get ready for the upcoming draft.

Caleb started his career by founding and owning "High Intent Training" located in Nashville, TN. At High Intent, Caleb leaned to make custom programs and progress athletes at a high level. Caleb also learned how to run a business and progress his business his business as a whole.

Caleb has a very interesting background working with many different athletes at a high level, while owning business along the way. Caleb has progressed at a crazy rate through the college rankings. I am really excited to see how he will improve the University of Texas with his overall knowledge of data/development. Please join me in listening to Caleb!

Focus on core strength/exercises, arm care, and movement quality

Arm care:

• Posterior cuff
• Shoulder tubing
• Marv bands

Mobility:

• Corrective exercises
• Foam rolling
• Pre-Game routines

Strength & Conditioning:

• Exercises
• Progression
• Intensity vs volume
• Day types

Nutrition:

• Macros & Calories

Catching EVERY Day Progression:

• Receiving
• Blocking
• Throwing

Season 4 Episode 6 is out with Gerry DeFilippo. Gerry is the owner of Challenger Strength located in Wayne, NJ and host of Muscles and Management podcast. Muscles and Management takes an in-depth look into sports, training and business. Gerry is very known for putting out great content about strength & conditioning on social media. He wants correct information to be spread so coaches can help their athletes in all aspects of training, recovery, and progression.

Topics: Background - College and athletic career - Start of challenger strength - Business side of starting your own facility? Initial start of client quantity progression, how you properly invested into the business, major keys to starting a S/C facility with low capital. Muscle & Management Podcast - Start of the podcast? - Deciding to make an S/C realistic and efficient social media platform - The consistency of having a podcast every week Strength and speed training for baseball players - Speed & Agility - In Season progression - Plyometrics - Needs analysis for each position - Strength - Challenger strength progression

Nutrition:

My story:

• Senior year of college experience
• Weight loss during season 20 pounds
• Decrease performance

5 keys to helping with In-Season Nutrition

• Get an overall estimate of your intake for the day (Mifflin St. Jeor Calculator) and find what your current Macros and calories are
• Practice vs Game day eating (plan!!!!)
• Keys to Calories (morning and night shake)
• Road-trips
• Supplements
  • Brands (Bare Performance Nutrition, Optimum Nutrition, Pescience
  • Supplement Types

Nutrition videos

• What to search for on YouTube

Season 4 Episode 4 is out with Matt Rienzi. Matt is currently an assistant coach at St. Joseph College- Brooklyn, assistant coach for the Ocean State Waves (NECBL), and a sidearm pitcher for the Polish National Team.

Matt goes into detail about St. Joseph's pitching program style including:

• Preseason and off-season development process
• Matt's style of coaching
• Evaluation of a pitcher at a smaller school (does this include technology and the overall process)
• His coach to player interaction on the field

Matt has an interesting playing background including playing for the Polish national team and transitioning to a sidearm pitcher.

Some key points that we talked about include:

• Transitioning to a side arm pitcher
• Europe baseball growth
• Leagues that are very competitive in Europe
• Overall culture of baseball in Europe

As most know, I really like to see how an overall person thinks and their knowledge of the game. Matt and I go in-depth about the state of baseball in 2022 and some pressing topics over the 2022 MLB offseason:

• MLB lockout
• Robot umpires
• 2022 development pieces being implemented into professional organizations

Matt was a great conversation and I am really looking forward to his bright future in coaching. Please join me in listening to Matt and "Always Remember Be Yourself"

Season 4 Episode 3 is out with "Stretch Talk". What is exactly is "Stretch Talk"? If you have played high school or college sports you know that every day you stretch. Stretching can be one of the most routine things you will do on an everyday basis. After a couple weeks you become familiar on what you need to accomplish stretching wise and can do it in your sleep. During this time, you start to strike up conversations with your teammates.

Topics include:

Athletes:

- Baseline ( Velocity Phase into Mound Velocity Phase)

- Live Bullpen (Volume, Intensity, Progression, how to be efficient during this time)

- Side Pens (Pitch Design, Pitch Execution)

- Lifting Progression (Strength/Power Phase, Dynamic Lifts, Sprinting)

Coaches:

- Bullpens (Side bullpen execution, Progression)

- Recovery ( Sleep, Progression, Mobility)

- Live Bullpens ( Its January and February you arent playing games...)

Season 4 Episode 2 is out with 802 baseball lab Founders Zac Morain and Seth Douglas. 802 Baseball lab is located in Georgia, VT and has been open for only a couple months. At 802 Baseball lab every athlete is properly assessed through their own screening process and a written custom development plan.

Zac Morain started his coaching career at Montana state being a volunteer pitching coach. After Montana state, Zac took a job at Drvieline baseball which is a data driven baseball training facility located in Kent, WA. Zac spent a year working at Driveline learning and developing baseball players using a data driven approach to improve player performance

Seth Douglas had a different route compared to Zac. Seth played college baseball at Bemidji state university and SUNY Canton. Seth's accolades in college included ECAC Player of the week, USCAA All American, and ABCA New York All-Region Second Team. After his playing career at SUNY Canton, Seth joined the Alpine Cowboys playing in the Pecos League.

Conversation topics include

- 802 Eval Process (Hitting, Pitching, FMS)

- MILB future hiring process?

- What does it take to be hired into professional baseball 2023?

- New technologies

- Are Biomechanics a must know in player development going forward?

Please join me in listening to 802 baseball lab!

Season 4 Episode 1 is out with Max Ramsey. Max is currently a catching instructor at P413 located in Dayton, OH. P413 is becoming a very household name in Dayton, OH. P413 provides elite level baseball instruction for athletes of all age. P413 is known for having one of the only Top Velocity in-house pitching programs in the Midwest.

Before working at P413, Max played college baseball at Wilmington college located in Wilmington, OH. Max is also apart of the coaching staff for Canes Ohio organization. Max is a player who was grown through the organization. Max talks about what the canes organization means to him. He explains that its not just about developing players but its teaching players about life and how to continue the growth mind set.

Max and I go in-depth talking about catching philosophy and how to implement a good system into an organization. Max talks about how with younger ages today, coaches can be so concerned about results rather than a steady progression of learning the position and their body.

We also talked about the overall state of catching in 2022. Receiving is becoming so important in todays game more than it ever has been. Analytics are taking over and truly analyzing who is being the most efficient behind that plate.

I had a great conversation with Max and I can't wait to hear how his offseason and summer will end up at the end of 2022!

Episode 15 season 3 is out with Lennon Richards. Lennon is currently the Director of pitching at Baseball located in Toronto, Canada. Lennon is a well-known name in the pitching community due to his high knowledge in ProPlayAI which is a marker less biomechanical technology.

Lennon growing up was originally a primary catcher, who decided to change to a pitcher. Lennon decided to sit out the spring semester of his freshman year at college. This six-month stretch would lead to Lennon's interest in player development. Lennon then decided he would drop out of college and start his career as a coach. Lennon currently has a blog that called richardbaseball.com, he shares his coaching journey and research he has done during his time a BDG.

Lennon talks about how BDG has become a very successful facility for training pitchers and athletes to become the best version of themselves. BDG has become a huge advocate of ProPlayAI from the beginning of its launch in 2020. This has allowed coaches to learn more of how the body works in motion during a pitching delivery. Lennon talks about how each player is not specific to each statistic show in ProPlayAI but explains how to go through an evaluation process of each athlete.

Lennon is one of the best analytic minds in pitching development currently and he has shown it through his blog. Incorporating technology, FRC, and S/C into pitching development to get the most out of his pitchers.

Episode 14 season 3 is out with Collin Murray. Collin is currently a development coach in the Baltimore Orioles Organization. Before working with the Baltimore Orioles, Collin was a graduate assistant at Georgia Southern University studying to get his master's in communication and leadership. Collin has a concentration using R. His strengths include data visualization and R shinny app.

Before working with the Baltimore Orioles, Collin talks about how he got into baseball. His first job wasn't in player development, but it was a sales job with the Miami Marlins. He realized through that job he wanted to work directly with the players. Collin went to the winter meetings in 2019 and ended up getting a job with the Los Angeles Angels organization as a minor league video intern.

After his job with the Angels, Collin decided he wanted to get more into player development and coding so he reached out to a bunch of schools asking about graduate assistant jobs. He was offered a graduate assistant job with Georgia Southern and went from there.

During his time at Georgia Southern, Collin produced a player development tracker through an R shiny app that could evaluate each individual player based on their metrics. Collin talks about his story making this app and how he told his players he was going to come back from winter break throwing 90 mph but quickly realized that wasn't going to happen and instead created this app.

After his season with Georgia Southern, Collin worked with the Detroit Tigers as a baseball information assistant. Collin talks about his experience working with coaches and players at a professional level each day and how much he learned over the summer.

Collin truly shows that with hard work, dedication, and determination you can learn how to code on your own. Collin talks highly about finding a mentor within the coding industry to really help you progress along the way. Collin learned how to code in about two years and is progressing each day.

I am excited to see Collin's 2022 season and wish him nothing but the best of luck!