“You Could Never Be A Big League Pitching Coach”
Monday thru Friday at 7:00 am I run a class for current, former or projected professional pitchers. Some of the students have been in the big leagues. Others are minor leaguers who are looking to advance to the show, and some are college graduates who went undrafted and are trying to hook up with independent professional teams. All have the same dream--to make it to the show. The class was full all winter, but now that the pro season has begun, and the extended spring training pitchers...
ARMVALANCHE!!! Pushing Back Against the Cascade of Injuries
In the early spring of 1994, Kathy and I decided to leave the Air Force and settle in The Tampa Bay Area. We found a nice house to buy--the same one we currently live in. She chose it because the two story colonial style reminded her of her hometown of Charleston, SC.
We applied for a VA loan to finance the $118,000 asking price. On a Captain's salary we needed to trim some expenses to qualify. I took on some extra work moonlighting as a home care physical therapist, and we used the extra...
DJ Missile!!!!
Said goodbye to a new friend yesterday. Allow me to introduce you to DJ Mitchell.
He has been training at The ARMory for the last 4 weeks.....every day....at 7:00 am....
DJ is a 26 year old professional baseball player.
A right handed pitcher who played in the big leagues for the New York Yankees, he was named the Yankees 2011 minor league pitcher of the year and made his major league debut in June of 2012.
In July of that same year, he was traded for this guy.
Through a...
Save the Cannons: Developing Throwing Ability While Keeping young Arms Safe and Healthy
Unless you live under a rock, you have to be aware of the rash of elbow injuries MLB players. Rays fans here in Tampa are all waiting anxiously for new from lefty phenom Matt Moore's visit to Dr. James Andrews.
I saw the game when he got hurt.
I'm betting UCL tear.
I just heard Dr. Andrews being interviewed on MLB radio about the contributing factors to the recent epidemic. One of the things he spoke about was the fact that the injuries we are seeing are the end line of a process that...
