Baseball

After reading about the recent amateur baseball draft and the reports given to various players, I seriously doubt that the scouts and general managers are talking the same language or even looking at the real abilities of the players. It is somehow assumed that everyone understands what is being said but it appears no one […]

It is not uncommon to hear coaches say that they work with players on their mechanics. But they rarely if ever, spell out what they mean by mechanics or what the mechanics are. Sometimes the definitions that they do give for mechanics appear to be counter to the generally accepted understandings. For example, some coaches

Of all the common injuries that athletes experience, the most frequently occurring one is to the fingers or hand. In spite of this, most scholastic, collegiate and professional athletes do not incorporate specific finger strengthening exercises into their programs. It is possible to find some athlete squeezing a ball, but this is as far as

Every year when spring training starts you can be guaranteed that you will see a picture of your team on the field doing static stretching. See the attached example. You can tell it is static stretching by looking at the position of the foot being stretched on almost all of the players. There is not

Some corrections were made to a professional baseball pitcher that raised more questions than answers. It was stated that the pitcher “redoubled his efforts to not spin off his landing foot as he released the ball.” According to him,” my pitching coaches, for years they’ve been telling me to do it this way.”   These