Pitcher
4 Great Ways to Improve Your Pitching Mechanics in the Weight Room
Over the past few months, I’ve released several videos demonstrating how we can use the weight room to help get our pitchers into better positions during their delivery. This article [...]
Why Your ‘Foot Strike’ Is Key to Throwing Harder (and 5 Tips on How to Improve It)
When talking about how force is transferred from foot strike up into the arm during pitching, I like to use the analogy of “crash test dummies crashing into a wall.” [...]
Study: Traditional ‘Pitch Counts’ Aren’t Doing Enough to Help High School Pitchers
Too many pitches can be bad news for a young pitcher’s arm and shoulder health. That’s why pitch counts have become a trusted way to guard against overthrowing. However, a [...]
How Jordan Hicks Built a Body Capable of Hurling 105-mph Fastballs
Baseball has a new velocity king, and his name is Jordan Hicks. Hicks, a 22-year-old reliever for the St. Louis Cardinals, threw four of the five hardest pitches registered in [...]
10 Great Ways to Increase Your Pitching Velocity in the Weight Room
In the world of pitching, velocity has become how most pitchers are initially judged. Unfortunately, there is no single thing I could tell you to do to increase velocity, as [...]
Fastpitch Softball Pitching Tips for Beginners
As a parent or coach of a new fastpitch softball pitcher, finding consistent fastpitch softball pitching tips for beginners can be confusing. In this...
9 Components of a Fantastic Arm Care Program for Pitchers
A pitcher has to take care of their arm. If you clicked on this article, you likely know that much. My goal with this piece is to make you re-evaluate [...]
Angels’ Shohei Ohtani Can Throw 102 MPH and Crush 500-foot Home Runs
Any time a Japanese superstar comes to the MLB, it’s accompanied by deafening hype. There was Ichiro, the wiry slap-hitting spark plug who debuted as a 27-year-old with the Seattle [...]
Improve Pitching Performance and Health With These Suspension Trainer Exercises
Watching a pitch in slow motion gives us a deeper insight into the power and violence that goes into one of the highest velocity movements in spots....
This Pitching Recovery Workout Will Help Maintain Your Throwing Shoulder
Pitching is a high risk, high reward sporting event, and small variances – a few inches or miles per hour – can be the difference between a scholarship...