What ACTUALLY Gets High School Pitchers Recruited
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Your ERA alone won't get you recruited. The gap to D1 is bigger than most high schoolers realize. The average D1 pitcher maxes out around 93.5 MPH, nearly 10 MPH harder than most high school arms. Closing the gap takes more than just mound reps. It takes pi...
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Catcher turned pitcher throws 96 MPH š„
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Former MiLB Catcher Tyler Herron throws 96 MPH in his latest pitching assessment.
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+9 MPH Bat Speed in 6 Months | How Did Jake Wagner Do It
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74 MPH ā”ļø 83 MPH Jake Wagner added +9 mph of bat speed in 6 months. In his final season of high school baseball, Wagner hit .487 (39 for 80) with 22 extra-base hits (10 doubles, 3 triples, 9 home runs) and earned First Team All-County honors in New Jersey. ...
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Driveline's founder on why being the best is a trap
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The better you get at what you already do, the more dangerous it is to keep doing it. Mastery makes incrementalism feel like progress. It isn't always. At some point the only real move is to stop optimizing the thing you're great at and go build the thing y...
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Congratulations Jaeger Bedford on committing to Bucknell University!
Short | 1 months ago
Here's a look back at some of his live at-bats last month.
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Jordan Walker is having a BREAKOUT season
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Jordan Walker is having a breakout year. 22 home runs, 78 RBIs, .838 OPS and he just won the Home Run Derby. He spent his offseason focusing on improving his bat path and the results are showing up this season š
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What Your Kid Isn't Telling You About His Arm
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If your son tells you his arm hurts, you've already lost. The number one lie every young pitcher tells is "I'm fine." Fatigue is invisible from the bleachers, and pain doesn't show up until the damage is already done. PULSE measures actual throwing workload...
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How This High School Player Rebuilt His Swing
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2 HR his junior year ā”ļø 11 HR his senior year. Teagan Scott could hit a line drive. That was the problem. His swing was built to put the ball in play and nothing more, so when he needed to do damage, there was nowhere to go. Part of the issue was attack ang...
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How Nick Martinez Became a First-Time All-Star at 35
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35 years old and a first time All-Star. Nick Martinez spent years as a reliever, starter, and swingman before locking down a spot in the Rays rotation. He credits workload tracking with Pulse for helping him know when he's ready to go. Well-organized worklo...
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What's the Next Sweeper?
Video | 1 months ago
In this episode, Director of BBOps Jack Lambert and Director of Pitching Connor White break down what's coming after the sweeper boom, including a high-gyro "vertical slider" shape flying under the radar right now. They also dig into how workload tracking t...
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Why Stats Won't Get You Recruited to D1
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Your high school stats alone won't get you recruited. The gap between high school and D1 baseball is huge. HS upperclassmen max out around 97 mph exit velo. D1 average is 109. Most high school fastballs don't come close to the D1 average of 90. Closing that...
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There's a pitch with a 40% whiff rate, and it's thrown less than 1% of the time.
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The sweeper had the exact same profile in 2018. Is this pitch the new sweeper?
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