Ahh yes. The Driveline conspiracy angle! Except that every single study on this topic has come to the same directional conclusion: 1️⃣ Ball weight goes up 2️⃣ Arm speed goes down 3️⃣ Elbow varus torque goes down It isn’t 2018. Driveline doesn’t control the weighted ball market with an iron fist anymore. Hell you could argue this research benefits Dongguan Blorpex Sunshine Global Lifestyle Trading Co and others selling bootleg plyos / WB on Amazon more than it does us. We press onward with stuff like this because - believe it or not - we actually care about getting to the truth of what works to train players. That inherently also means getting to the bottom of where the risk is and isn’t. Evidence > narrative.

The hitter’s swings, foul balls, and takes give you a good idea of his approach. What do I mean? Fastballs: Is he late on the FB? Where are his foul balls? Pulled foul? Or over the opposite dugout? Or, is he taking them? So, if late, this means that we pitch FB in, up, and expand down. If he’s taking them, he might be sitting strike offspeed. Also, if he’s late on FB, be careful throwing a get me over strike offspeed pitch. You will be doing him a favor. A good question to ask is, where can we go where his barrel can’t square the ball up? Offspeed: is he pulling them foul? Are his takes good or bad? Does his swing look comfortable on the offspeed? Where does he chase? A good tidbit to follow is that we should chase bad swings. The best hitters in the world can make the adjustment pitch to pitch. Most players, especially at the HS and below level, can’t do that. So if he takes a bad swing on a pitch, throw it again. If he takes it, throw a different pitch, then go back to bad swing pitch. Another tidbit is that if the hitter fouls a ball straight back to the backstop, be very careful repeating that, because he just missed it. Many more nuances to this but this is basic food for thought.

🚨 Skenes - Quantifying Success • 1st pitch strikes • 2/3 pitches for strikes • A result in 3 pitches or less ⭐️ Early action is a starting pitcher’s best friend. Attack the zone & stay in control of the count.

Fun Fact: When the Stars and Avs face off on Friday night, it will not just be a match-up of the top 2 teams in the Central Division, it will be a meeting of the #1 and #2 teams in the entire NHL.

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Thanks and Gig’em. 👍 One heck of a season. #inelkoitrust

I've been reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, and I just came across a paragraph that hit me harder than I expected.

Nebraska was 33-0 Nebraska had only dropped 7 sets all season Nebraska hadn’t lost at home since 2022 and had won 63 home matches in a row Nebraska was going for their fourth national semifinal in a row Then this happened…

3 pitch sets! It’s the centerpiece of getting your amateur pitchers to consistently throw the ball over the plate & pitch to contact 8 sets of 3 pitches Are you ahead or behind after 3 pitches? Do that 8 times & if your pitcher isn’t ahead 75% of the time, they don’t progress! Start with FB only for young guys, and put an enticement in play… you can pitch in a game or you can use your changeup next time… but force them to achieve 75% More advanced players make the breaking pitch the enticement, or using the Rapsodo or tech as the enticement. Throw 75% ahead or you stay put in your progression. If you can’t have success 6 out of 8 times in 3 pitch sets, you don’t belong throwing offspeed pitches in games! And you don’t belong on any tech if you can’t do the same! This has nothing to do with technique or mechanics, it instills a competitive mentality and mindset on your staff. For pitchers that buy in, it becomes about how quickly they can get off the field, which typically means they ain’t giving up a bunch of runs. We used to tell our guys, ‘fill the scoreboard with eggs and noodles (0s and 1,) and do it quickly!’

Fans being a little harsh on our best team in 3 decades. Bragging rights would’ve been nice but we playing for much bigger shit every week after this! #GigEm I still believe!❤️❤️❤️

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It’s Lone Star Showdown week, so here’s perhaps the greatest ESPN commercial ever created.

According to ESPN strength of schedule rankings, here's where Texas A&M’s schedule would rank in other conferences: -10th in Big Ten -2nd in ACC -1st in every other conference Many compare A&M’s 2025 schedule to what Texas faced a year ago, but they aren’t all that comparable.

"My job is to always be opposite the moment." Mike Elko on keeping his poise amid a game like A&M faced on Saturday: