At every level of baseball today pitchers are throwing harder and harder. 95 is the new 90 and the number of pitchers who have touched 100 mph is staggering.  We have even seen a handful of HS pitchers throwing 100 mph. How can hitters adjust to this kind of velocity? The answer isn’t swinging harder

Our hitting system is different from any other program I am familiar with. Instead of forcing hitters to hit and move a certain way, we focus on identifying how each hitter makes his outs and then prescribe drills that will eliminate some of those outs. By the time an athlete is 11 or 12 years

When a pitcher attacks a hitter, he has a lot of things going for him. He has as many as 4-5 pitches he can throw at various speeds and as many as 9 locations. If that’s not enough he has eight other guys besides himself who can catch his mistakes and sometimes he even has

One person I wish I could have talked to when I was playing is the Cincinnati Reds’ great Joe Morgan. He told the story of hitting .286 as rookie-of-the-Year for the Houston Colts and again when he was the starting second baseman for the National League in his second year. In both years he would

Like any other physical activity, pitching requires strength and the only way to build it is to throw a lot. It’s like a chromium battery. If all you ever do is throw 80 pitches, eventually that will be all you can do.

There are 3 things a pitcher has to do to throw a shutout and none of them require the ability to throw a certain velocity. When our pitchers work out to add velocity, we really want them to focus on pitching shutouts.