Baseball Pitching: The Fix

Baseball pitching motion troubleshooter Angel Borrelli discusses what pitchers should be doing in the offseason.

Trending topics: the mechanical flaws that should be corrected during the offseason by Noah Synergaard, Alberto Osuna, and Jeff Samardzija.

Teaching Moment: when pitchers should start throwing if they participate in a fall season, and what pitchers should be doing in the gym during the offseason.

Location Segment: putting it all together -- an efficient motion will result in good deception, location, and peak velocity.

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Baseball pitching motion troubleshooter Angel Borrelli explains how products claiming to enhance pitching performance can do more harm than good, plus, how to troubleshoot command issues for 5 different pitches.

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Baseball pitching motion troubleshooter Angel Borrelli explains the injuries sustained by Stephen Strasburg and offers seven tips to help pitchers and coaches have a successful fall baseball season.

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In this episode of "The Fix," Joe Janish and Angel Borrelli discuss Stephen Strasburg's  elbow soreness and limited range of motion, and why those symptoms could suggest another UCL tear and Tommy John surgery in Strasburg's future.

Angel also connects Steven Matz's shoulder strain with his elbow bone spur, and suggests what Nathan Eovaldi could have done to avoid his second Tommy John surgery.

In the "Teaching Moment," Angel offers the 7 most important muscle groups a pitcher should focus on in strength training.

Finally, in the "Location" segment, Angel has an easy tip to improve a pitcher's command.

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Pitching motion troubleshooter Angel Borrelli makes recommendations on what pitchers should be thinking about as they plan for the offseason.

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Baseball pitching motion troubleshooter Angel Borrelli explains how a correctable flaw in Clayton Kershaw's delivery led to his back injury.

Additionally, Joe Janish and Angel discuss the new pitch count limits being considered by the National Federation of High School Baseball.

In the "Location" segment, Angel provides her secret to locating the curveball.

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Baseball pitching motion troubleshooter Angel Borrelli explains how and why pitchers suffer bone spurs in the elbow and thoracic outlet syndrome, with Mets pitchers Noah Syndergaard and Matt Harvey used as examples. Hosted by Joe Janish.

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Baseball pitching motion troubleshooter Angel Borrelli and FixingPitchers.com founder Joe Janish discuss the recent arm issues with New York Mets' Noah Syndergaard and Zack Wheeler coming on the heels of the Mets’ announcing a new “open-lines of communication” between the pitchers and management with regard to arm soreness and injuries.

Angel goes on to talk about why pitchers should not throw through pain, and offers corrections to Syndergaard's mechanics that could decrease the strain (and pain) being put on his elbow.

In this season’s  “Location” segment, Angel talks about how over-rotating the upper trunk can create problems for locating pitches and gives a “how to” for coaches on how to spot this pitching motion flaw.

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With Yu Darvish returning to MLB action, and fellow TJ rehabbers Zack Wheeler, Homer Bailey, Brandon McCarthy, and Adam Ottavino (amont others) targeting a second-half return, baseball pitching motion troubleshooter Angel Borrelli discusses what pitchers do to rehabilitate themselves from Tommy John surgery, and why some pitchers take longer than others to return to the mound.

During the Teaching Moment, Angel describes her background and the process of being a pitching motion troubleshoother. Additionally, she explains how her role differs from that of a pitching coach and biomechanist, and how all three work together to fine-tune pitching mechanics and keep a pitcher healthy and performing at his peak.

Finally, in the "Location" segment, Angel offers a tip to improve command that involves keeping an eye on a pitcher's hip pockets.

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After winning the AL Cy Young Award in 2015, Houston Astros pitcher Dallas Keuchel is suddenly struggling -- his velocity is down, command is off, and he's fatiguing by the fifth inning. Baseball pitching motion troubleshooter Angel Borrelli investigates Keuchel's mechanics and finds both a flaw that is common with pitchers at all levels and a fix that can be easily applied. 

Also in this episode, host Joe Janish asks Angel what pitchers should do when they suffer from forearm tightness, citing Mets pitcher Steven Matz's forearm and elbow issues.

During the "Teaching Moment," Angel and Joe discuss a recent study by Michael Sonne regarding MLB's proposal to use a pitch clock and how that could increase and accelerate pitchers' fatigue.

Finally, during the "Location" segment of the podcast, Angel provides a tip for improving command, using Washington Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer as an example.

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