Drew Bryan has had a wild ride—D3 All-American, transfer to powerhouse ECU, fractured ribs that sidelined most of the year, back to D3 at UChicago, and now? Off to Duke. We started working together while he was still shut down—dealing with lingering rib pain and velo down in the

What do you do when the work you’re putting in is there but the results aren’t showing up? Training is never linear. It’s a constant loop of evaluation—matching how the athlete feels with what we see on video, what the data says, and how the body is responding to the inputs

Still stuck chasing the same inefficiencies, no matter how many weighted balls you throw? Implements aren’t magic. Different ball weights change the task—and that changes how you move. But without a clear strategy, you’re just adding noise. Use the implement to: 1. Force a new

Kevin’s been in pro ball a long time. He’s seen just about every exercise variation you can think of. So with him, it wasn’t about reinventing the wheel—it was about being razor-sharp on what adaptations we wanted, what was actually holding him back, and how we could keep him

Think your arm slot is just about being “over the top” or “sidearm”? It’s not that simple.⁠ ⁠ Pitch profiles and arm slots are mostly byproducts of your physical capacity and overall movement strategy—not just where you try to throw from. Not sure if I can source the exact

Where do you get your dopamine? From the game itself? Or from stacking party tricks in the gym and posting about it? Too many guys fall in love with training. With being the hardest worker in the room. With the process itself. But that’s not the point. Training exists for one

Why do so many cues fall flat on their face? Because they’re about your past, not the athletes present. Cueing is the third variable I look at when designing out skill work. It’s not about telling athletes what you once felt. It’s not about overloading them with anatomy jargon.

Nothing about your throw really matters except how well you gather energy—and then redirect it into the baseball through the arm. Throwing is curvilinear. Velocity is a vector — it needs a direction. So everything we do should maximize that directional component straight at the

From the low 80’s to touching 90 in a single summer— one of the fastest turnarounds I’ve ever seen. Lawrence Gallo was a super loose mover with a slow arm that couldn’t get through, cutting everything and looking like he was throwing in molasses. We focused on tightening up the

Felt great in bullpen today 7/11 Looking for 5th year opportunities Grad Transfer LHP 3.9 GPA FB: 91-95 SL: 81-84 (94 was FB mistagged) CH:80-81 FLATGROUND Pitching Connected Performance Ben Baggett

Trace Baker went from an 87-90 JUCO arm to sitting 93-96 and getting drafted by the Blue Jays.⁠ ⁠ A huge part of it? Getting his torso closed up longer and stacking more side bend. Everything we did was about forcing better frontal plane mechanics and maximizing the timing of

As guys progressively drop into the back leg and initiate pelvic rotation, the shin and femur should stay relatively aligned with the center of mass. When this happens, the pelvis has the space to rotate around the femur without getting blocked. That alignment maintains joint

Blake Brown went from the low 90s to upper 90s and topped out at 101. One of the first in-person guys we ever truly worked with — honestly, we were figuring a lot of it out as we went. It forced us to question traditional approaches and rethink how we looked at building a throw.

🚨 Weighted Balls Cause Injury... I get asked about this paper a few times a year. My response: Was it the weighted ball or the program design? 🧐 📌Im just not sure of many programs that would logically program 2-32 oz pull downs 3 times a week for maturing 13-15 yr olds...

Learning doesn’t just come from doing — it comes from perceiving the difference between what you intended to do and what actually happened. ⁠ ⁠ That’s where feedback comes in. Feedback helps athletes close the loop, sharpen awareness, and pick up on information they might’ve

We used a mix of targeted constraints, weighted implements, and velocity feedback to shape the qualities he needed and guide his body to organize more efficiently. Every step was intentional—meeting him where he was at that moment and dialing in exactly what would move the

Jose Rodriguez went from low 90s and stuck in the lower levels of minor leagues to one of the best pitchers in MiLB and now touching 100. The turning point wasn’t a magic cue or feel — it was learning how to delay rotation just enough to let his linear lower half amplify synced

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Good throwing programs don’t just “build you up” — they reshape how you move. You can’t just brute force efficient mechanics, intent is a tool that is layered upon purposeful program design. When designing out program, I’m always manipulating something: – Simplifying the task –

From 88-92 to 94-97. Then from retired… to 102. Sam High didn’t just gain velo. He rewired how he approaches throwing. It started with a summer of focused work — upper 80s to sitting mid 90s. But the real win? He kept evolving and growing. Years later, he’s throwing harder than