Today we’re sitting down with nationally renowned Texas A&M pitching Nate Yeskie. Having joined the Aggies in June 2021, he has long history of coaching at the highest echelons of college baseball. Before Texas A&M, he was with Arizona after coaching for 11 seasons with Oregon State.

During his nearly 18-year career, he has chiseled out a reputation as one of the elite pitching coaches in the country. He has taken his pitching staff to the College World Series with Oregon, Arizona and Texas A&M, which is quite an accomplishment.  He has twice earned National Pitching Coach of the Year recognition from Collegiate Baseball and was tabbed the D1 Baseball Assistant Coach of the Year in 2017.

He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this podcast in terms of some natural qualities he looks for when looking for a great fit for his team. Other topics include his selective use of tech, handling adversity as well as the importance “being like water”.

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This one is coming to you live from The Bridge Seminar at Wake Forest University, where I presented this weekend. In today’s podcast I’ll be summarizing many (not all) of the great presenters at this year’s player development seminar. It was a blast speaking with, as well as listening and learning from some of, the best in the business of baseball player development.  Topics include:

• Creating sustainable systems – Jake McKinley (Head Coach, University of Nevada)
• Assessing and unlocking the athlete – Brandon Golden (Performance Coach, Five Tool Connection)
• Creating superpowers – Brandon McDaniel (VP Player Development, LA Dodgers)
• Biomechanics beyond the report – Kristen Nicholson (Lab Director and Bio-mechanist, Wake Forest)
• Thinking beyond pitch design – Brian Bannister (Director of Pitching, SF Giants)
• Building the House (athlete) – Corey Muscara (Pitching Coach Wake Forest), Mike McFerran (Wake Forest Pitching Lab)

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Today's podcast is with Mike McFerran, Director of Player Development for the Wake Forest Baseball program and Coordinator of the Wake Forest Pitching Lab.  Join us as we discuss a variety of topics, including:

• Marker vs marker-less mocap systems
• The pipeline from data testing to actual training
• Interpretation vs. misinterpretation when using data
• Deciding when a mechanical issue is a mobility problem

Mike joined Wake Forest in 2021, to provide a bridge a bridge between the Pitching Lab and Wake Forest Baseball program by interpreting and defining the developmental direction of throwing athletes in collaboration with coaching and support staff.  Prior to Wake Forest, Mike served as the Associate Head Coach, Pitching Coach, & Recruiting Coordinator at Skidmore College from 2017-2020.

He earned his Master's in Business Administration with a concentration in Sport Management at Lynn University in 2016, and his Bachelor's in Mass Communications at The College at Brockport in 2015.

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Today's podcast is with Brian Bannister, Director of Pitching for the San Francisco Giants.  Join us as we discuss a variety of topics including:

• Developing pitchers in the minor leagues
• Group think and baseball
• Short Strengthening Cycle (SSC) and training pitchers
• Muscle guys vs. tendon guys
• What’s on the horizon for pitcher development and training

Brian played college baseball as a walk-on for USC, where he helped the Trojans to 2 College World Series in 2000 and 2001.  He was selected by the Mets in the 7th round of the 2003 MLB draft. His MLB career spanned 5 years from 2006-2010. In 2015, he joined the Boston Red Sox as Director of Pitching where he remained as Vice President of Pitching Development until leaving the to join the San Francisco Giants in December 2019.

Brian can be reached on Twitter: @RealBanny @ArtOfBaseball

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I’ll be flying solo this holiday weekend, covering some of the questions I receive from the audience on the off-season “to-do” list.  Off-season is a great time to address a variety of topics that you should deal with to improve in-season performance.  Topics will include:

• Strength training
• Periodization
• Cuff work
• Active recovery vs. a complete shutdown
• Sequencing
• What not to do!
• What you should do!
• Re-Mapping for efficient mechanics

Hope you enjoy this week’s podcast and have a great holiday weekend!!

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In today’s podcast we are sitting down and talking pitching mechanics with Lantz Wheeler. Lantz is the Founder and CEO of the Baseball Think Tank, the inventor of the Core Velocity Belt, and owner and operator of the nationally renowned annual Pitch-a-Palooza conference.  And he is definitely no stranger to coaching pitchers.

I have known Lantz for many years, and I have been really looking forward to this Podcast.  I can tell you listening to Lantz is always highly educational and definitely entertaining. He has a way of simplifying complex human movement patterns into simple terms that most people can relate to.

Today, we’re going to discuss some of his famous “Lantz-isms” when talking about pitching mechanics as well as his opinion on throwing drills and tech to name a few.

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Today’s podcast is with Red Sox pitching coach Brett Merritt. Brett has coached college baseball for over a decade at pretty much all levels of the game, from JUCO to Division 1, prior to joining the professional ranks with the Red Sox in 2020 as the Salem Red Sox pitching coach.

Today, Brett talks about all of the “knowledge bombs” that have dropped on him since working his way up the ranks from college to his job with the Red Sox organization, as well as integrating different systems in pro ball.

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Today, we’re discussing the recruiting process with Patrick Jones of Patrick Jones Baseball. 

Patrick is a graduate of Xavier University where he played baseball.  He is also a former hitting coach with the Baltimore Orioles. If you've ever listened to one of his podcasts, you'd know that his passion for the game is bar none and today's discussion on recruiting is no different.

Today’s topics include the trends in college recruiting, how to find the right fit, what the portal means for young athletes looking to play at the next level as well as some pearls on hitting.

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Today's podcast is with RPP Director of Hitting Andrew Pezzuto.  Andrew's coaching career goes back to the 2014-2015 when he became a graduate assistant coach at Franklin Pierce University.   He has also coached at Shippensburg, Northern Illinois University, Iona College and most recently at Marist college where he was the Hitting Coach / Recruiting Coordinator from 2020-2021.

He is a Hastings-on-Hudson, New York native, and a graduate from SUNY Cortland in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in business economics before attaining his master’s degree from Franklin Pierce in sport management in 2015.

Today we're going to discuss on-plane efficiency and its role in making consistent hitters, how we measure it, how we work to improve it and how we strive to replicate it to a high degree given the variable nature of hitting a baseball.

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Today’s podcast is with RPP Pitching Coordinator Alex Kubera on the topic of developing command.  In the age of velocity, command sometimes takes a back seat. However, the reality is velocity may get you the look, but command gets you time on the mound.  If you can’t “control” the pitch, you won’t be throwing strikes or seeing much playing time. And if you can’t “command” it, then it will be harder to the wins against high level players.  Join us as we discuss a variety of great topics related to command:

• Command vs. control
• Main issues when struggling to hit your marks
• Monitoring workload
• The importance of BOTH cuff strength and cuff timing
• Maintaining center of mass through better anterior core control
• How long does it take to see significant changes in command
• How has the use of data helped make your job easier when dealing with
• command issues

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