The Real Voices of the Game Productions

Dumbing Down Pitching

Contreras and the new way of catching

Spinning it

Sandy and Tucker

Celebrations

Offensive Philosophy

Create the big inning

Advance Baserunners

Don't give the other team easy outs

Journey to the bigs from Alabama to Toronto

Bo Jackson

The Sports Festival

Coaching journey ... started in Jamestown

Role of a coach and story about his son

Quality Control

How to separate yourself as a player

Role of the parent in sports

What is Max Velocity? Anecdotal or Emperical ?

Strider averaged 97.2 mph last season reached 99-100 mph. Megill 93-94 topping out 95 Luis Gill Avg. 96.9. maxed out 99.7 Skubal 96-97. topping out at 100 Carlton, Gibson, Seaver, Ryan ? Skenes

• Skenes' strikeout of Miles Mastrobuoni in the second inning registered at 101.2 mph, matching his own record for the fastest strikeout by a Pirate pitcher in the pitchtracking era (since 2008). Pitch Fx

• He became just the third pitcher in the pitch-tracking era to strike out the side on pitches registering at least 100 mph, joining Hunter Greene (Sept. 17, 2022 and Oct. 3, 2022) and Bobby Miller (July 5, 2023).

There might not be a solution to the pitching injury problem in baseball. If you sort the research and data on the subject to answer the questions most asked about the subject, you don't end up in a place where there's an easy way forward. What is the main source of pitcher injury?....Velocity Are pitchers getting hurt because they are throwers, not pitchers now? Are analytics to blame? Are the injuries because of all the breaking balls? What role does the pitch clock have in injury? Does sticky stuff (and its ban) have any role in the injury increase? Could year-round throwing be the problem? Are there better mechanics out there that could solve the problem? There have been findings that have come out of the emergent study of biomechanics. Certain relationships between your landing foot, your trunk rotation and your shoulder movement have been deemed better than others. Some think they've got the perfect mechanics that will ensure a way out of this problem. But Casey Mulholland, who runs Kinetic Pro, a private player development lab, outlined a problem with blaming it all on mechanics. “Let's say you've got a pitcher with a three-quarter arm slot — that means more stress, more valgus torque,” Mulholland said. “He comes to Tampa and I magically change his arm action to produce the same velo more over the top, and now he throws with less torque. Well, with the cleaned-up arm action, he can now throw harder. And the one thing we know that increases stress is velo, sooooo. “Our brain passes messages s to our muscles, forearm flexors in this case, via the central nervous system to contract at just the right moment to offload the stress applied to the UCL. When we become fatigued our brain doesn't pass this message as well, the muscles don't contract at the ‘optimal time' or the ‘optimal amount' and we end up not being able to offload this stress. The UCL then wears more of a direct stress. Over time, under fatigue, the load of throwing eventually overcomes the tissue tolerance and boom, UCL tear. “This is why workload management is the only logical answer to slow the injury rate,” thinks Mulholland. “Workload management predicts the possible time at which an athlete might experience too much lo

• “It's a big boy throwing a heavy baseball,” said Cubs outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong. “He does a really good job with mixing and everything. But it's tough to hit anybody that throws 100-plus with two to three really good secondary pitches and a sinker that moves like a changeup at 95.” .

• The velocity held, too. Skenes' 100th pitch clocked in at 100 mph, blowing past Mike Tauchman for his 11th strikeout. It was an exclamation point on his day and inevitable first win, something that impressed everyone, with maybe the exception of his catcher.

Our daily rant- False Flags, butt tags, & the Yanks

Military experience leads to writing

The Baseball Miracle of the Splendid 6

Baseball's Great Expectations

Harrison Budkter

Making a Great Pitch

Salvi Perez on Catching

What endures and thoughts on the SHIFT

Manoah-Skenes-Doc

MLB Surprises

His start in KC

Marvin Miller, Curt Flood

Hot Seat

Role of Analytics

Pitching injuries and the players union

Red's De La Cruz

Stealing strikes, load management and city connect uniforms

Load management

Responsibility of the media and Tracy Ringolsby

The value of analytics to the American born Player vs Latin Born Player

International signing ... the problems

Arraez conversation

Acuna insight

Mendoza and the Mets

Toe the Rubber - Current trends witness Load Management -

new vs old. Major League and Minor League Ex.

Development of Paul Skenes. Many questions?

Movement-based - Colleran, Kimball, DeChant, Romano - movement based strength coaches Global Movements - Developmental Kinesiology

Andrews - “baseball is a development game”. Growth plates, tendons, ligaments, and muscles. Andrews recommendations: workload, intensity/effort, duration, rest, mechanics, proper training. Shoulder and Elbow adaptations to throwing a baseball.

Current key years: middle school. Physical maturation of different kids. Bad habits are not going to be already ingrained for years.

Pitching Kinetics program The buy-in: Proper external rotation: 90-120 degrees for high school.

Kinetic Arm Retraction and depression of scapulae - Trap Dominant with Winged Scapulae Overactive Trapezius Imbalance in Scap Control Winged Scapulae Increased Risk of Injury Inefficient energy transfer

Normal vs Natural

The indoctrinated brain