The Connection Ball: A Case Study
I’d like you to meet Ryan Kopenski.
He gave me permission to tell his story.
Ryan is a sophomore left handed pitcher at Central Florida Community College. His most recent season didn’t go as well as he would have liked. He spent the entire spring season hovering at 80-81 mph and fighting constant pain in his medial elbow that he rated at a level of 5 out of 10.
When he came to The ARMory for his initial evaluation on June 18th, 2014 his elbow was still hurting every time he threw.
His...
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...
You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out Kid!
It's Official
My son, Ryan is a Texan! He came home from Weatherford College last week sporting a brand new pair of ostrich skin cowboy boots, and a tattoo of a bible verse on his wrist.
And now he wants a shotgun.
It happened to his older brother, Ty, when he went to school out there too. Ty came back an avid fisherman, hunter, and collector of firearms.
I blame Flint Wallace, the best college pitching coach in the country. I sent my kids out there to become better pitchers,...
Eureka! New Ways to Train The Gluts
Eric Binder, Trevor Bauer, Jonathan Massey and Ron Wolforth are onto something huge at The Texas Baseball Ranch. Today I was introduced to the box squat torque, the walking box squat torque and eccentric strengthening of the gluts with one legged plyobox step downs. What they are really tapping into is a phenomenon in rehab known as proprioceptive neuromuscular education. In this article I will try to explain the concept and show how it applies to learning a critical part of the pitching...
