The Pro's List

This week, I went down to San Diego to meet with Jon Sintes and Cass Kreitlow of Cutternation. Jon and Cass are teaching baseball a little differently. What started as a sit-down discussion quickly turned into mechanical demonstrations and live throwing. At Cutternation, they have developed some new rules that guide their throwing patterns. They are training athletes differently utilizing new tools like the Synapse. Through their collective experience, Jon as a player and Cass as a coach, both felt player development was lacking and they decided to take a unique approach. They are passionate about the game of baseball and had some interesting ideas about how to increase the popularity of baseball by utilizing the technology readily available to teams. After our chat, I had to get on the mound to try their "three rules" and of of course, to try and learn a cutter at Cutternation.

In Episode 3, we sit down with Lantz Wheeler. Lantz is one of the most highly sought after pitching coaches in the country and his Core Velocity Belt is now a staple in Major League clubhouses. He created the Core Velocity Belt as a way to teach efficient lower half mechanics in a simplified way. He believed that too often, pitching coaches were trying to solve problems by fixing the very end of a delivery rather than addressing the initial issues. Lantz has helped re-tool pitchers like Lucas Giolito and Lance McCullers. In our discussion, Lantz does a great job of taking complex pitching premises and explaining them with simple analogies that we can all understand.