Rick Saggase, XFS, CSAC, played his collegiate baseball at the University of Miami; one of the top collegiate baseball programs in the nation. At Miami, Rick battled back from his third knee injury while getting hurt in Honolulu, Hawaii to open the season. He kept his goals in sight once again and became a three-year […]
Elite Mobility Training for Baseball Players with Sarah Howard
Sarah Howard, is the founder of Elite Mobility Training (EMT). We spend time talking about how to incorporate recovery routines, why they are so important, why Yoga seems to be taboo, what are the benefits of mobility training and her use of the inexpensive Yoga Tune Up and Coregeous balls with baseball players from […]
The Science of Baseball & How to Help Our Athletes
Will Carrollwrites about sports science, sports medicine, and sports. His “Under The Knife” column was called “essential reading” by Hall of Famer Peter Gammons. Author of two award-winning books (Saving The Pitcher and The Juice), Carroll currently writes about injuries for his own newsletter and consults with several professional teams and players on sports science. […]
Progressive Baseball Development with Juan Palacios
Listen to the podcast: Juan Palacios is a professional baseball trainer with over 30 years of experience working with pitchers, catchers and hitters. He has worked with some of today’s most talented MLB players such as Carlos Correa, Francisco Lindor, Edwin Diaz, Jesmuel Valentin and Yadiel Rivera. Juan was born and raised in Caguas Puerto […]
Making Sense of Baseball Vision Training with Dr Peter Fadde
Watch the video: Listen to the podcast: Baseball players need to understand how to see the ball in order to hit the ball. We discuss how to train those skills for best results with Dr Peter Fadde from GameSense Sports. — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/playballkid/message Full Transcript: 📍 Hi everybody. It’s Bryan Eisenberg […]
3 Keys to Unlock Hitter Timing with Ken Cherryhomes
Watch the video: Listen to the audio: Ken Cherryhomes has been helping hitters for the last 25 years. He has coached hitters at every level from youth to major league hitters. He’s also an inventor of the X-Factor system. — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/playballkid/message Full transcript: Hi everybody, Bryan Eisenberg and […]
Understanding the Science of The Kinetic Arm to Reduce Elbow & Shoulder Stress with Jason Colleran
Watch the video: Listen to the podcast: Ever since reading Jeff Passan’s The Arm, I have been fascinated with trying to understand the epidemic of Little League shoulders & elbows, Labrum (shoulder) tears and of course UCL or Tommy John injuries. There has been research that indicated that over 40% of MLB pitchers with arm […]
The 1 Skill Baseball Players, Parents & Coaches Don’t Ask Enough About with Joe Ferraro
Watch the video with Joe Ferraro: Or listen to the audio: This week we are with former high school baseball coach, high school English teacher, podcaster and podcast coach Joe Ferraro [ https://www.damngoodconversations.com ] of the 1% Better Podcast and the “Damn Good Questions” virtual course. We discuss the importance of communication on and off […]
Can we teach hitters to have one ideal swing with Chad Longworth?
Watch the full video: Chad was a 12th round draft pick of the Cleveland Indians. He also coached H.S. baseball for 5 years. With the advent of new technology began to take hold of baseball he started questioning a lot of what players do and what they are taught. Today he offers various player […]
How to get into your legs with Harold Mozingo
Watch the video: Harold Mozingo is a former pitcher in the Royals and Blue Jays organizations. He is the inventor of the TorqueScrew training device for training pitchers on how to use ground force effectively. He is the author of Young Guns Eguide, a 90 page complete guide to training youth pitchers. It includes […]
Working Harder Than Everyone Else to the Ring the Bell with Heath Bell
Slide into our 3x All-Star, former Reliever of the Year and baseball dad, coach Heath Bell Heath Bell grew up in Southern California. He attended Tustin High School, it was there that he developed habits that would last a lifetime. Undrafted out of high school, Bell attended nearby Santa Ana College (known briefly as Rancho […]
The ABCs of an MLB Bullpen Coach with Chris Young, Chicago Cubs
Chris “CY” Young serves as bullpen coach for the Chicago Cubs. He formerly served as pitching coach for the Philadelphia Phillies. Young attended Mississippi State University, and played college baseball for the Mississippi State Bulldogs. He earned Freshman All-America honors.[2] In 2001 he was 5–1 with a 2.81 ERA. In 2002, he had a 5–2 […]
Owning the Mental Game with Diamyn Hall
Unlocking the Process to Success with former Wright State, Director of Peak Performance & Mental Conditioning . Diamyn Hall is currently known as one the world’s top Online Mindset Coaches. He is the creator of The Hitter’s Blackbook & Founder of The Mental Game Blueprint VIP training program. As a former division 1 baseball player […]
Rounding Third: Practice Planning with author Coach Zach Casto
Coach Zach Casto started his coaching career at West Virginia State University Student Assistant for 2 years (2016-2018) and is currently the Nitro High School Assistant Coach (Outfield, Base-Running, Analytics, First Base Coach). He is the author of “Rounding Third: Skills, Drills, and Best Practices in the Game of Baseball” and the Rounding Third Leadership […]
Old School Wisdom, New School Knowledge with Jerry Weinstein – Colorado Rockies Coach
A lifelong learner & coach shares lessons learned from coaching teams in high school, junior college, summer college leagues, NCAA D1, the minor leagues, the MLB and international competitions, such as the Olympics and the World Baseball Classic. Jerry Weinstein began his coaching career in 1966 as a UCLA freshman coach. He was an assistant […]
Train Hard, Recover Hard
It never fails, every college or pro player I speak to says they regret not getting into the weight room earlier in their career. I started training at age 11 at True Grind Systems in Austin, TX. At these young ages it isn’t about lifting heavy weights, it is about learning the habits, movement patterns […]
8: A Biomechanics Lab On Your Phone with Dr Mike Sonne
Biomechanics & AI: The Future of Mechanics Development Dr. Michael Sonne is the VP of Research and Innovation for ProPlayAI, a company focused on measuring and describing human motion. Mike is also the research director for the Baseball Development Group in Toronto, Canada, as well as an adjunct professor at Brock University. At Brock, Mike […]
6: Developing Velocity, Rehab & Injury Prevention with Pocket Radar’s Tyler Scaturro
Tyler Scaturro is the Brand Manager of Pocket Radar Inc., which designs, engineers and manufactures revolutionary speed tracking technology for a wide-range of applications. After his collegiate baseball playing career ended at the JUCO and Div. II levels, he joined the Pocket Radar start-up team in 2012. Having a background working for a family-owned restaurant […]
5: You Haven’t Failed Enough to be Successful with Demetre Kokoris, MILB Pitching Coach Blue Jays Organization
Demetre Kokoris is currently a MiLB pitching coach in the Blue Jays Organization. He got his Bachelor of Science degree from the Univ. of South Carolina and his MBA from Cal St. Fullerton. At Cal State Fullerton, he was fortunate to be mentored by Dr Ken Ravizza, the Godfather of the mental game and author […]
3 Ways to Naturally Increase Spin Rate without Foreign Substances
Trevor Bauer engineered his way to a Cy Young Award in 2020. Interestingly, his average spin rate went up 415 rpm. Last year, his spring rate was around 2400 rpms and this year it was over 2800 rpms without an increase in pitch velocity. He wasn’t the only one to increase their spin rate as […]
Time to Talk Training Timing in Hitting
A thinking man’s pitcher, Warren Spahn would describe his approach on the mound as “Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.” While interviewing former big league pitcher Lary Sorensen, an executive from F5 Sports who make the PitchLogic smart baseball, he shared that Hall of Famer Eddie Matthew’s said “he could time a jet airplane […]
Best Gifts for Baseball Players 2020
There are so many amazing tools out there to help baseball or softball players get better. Of course this holiday season you can buy them a new bat or glove, but I wanted to share my starting 9 for baseball best gifts of the year: #1 in our lineup: WinReality pitch recognition training app on […]
Delivering a New WIN(ing) Reality to Hitter Development
In the spring of 2009, Chris O’Dowd the Oakland Athletics drafted him in the 40th round of Major League Baseball’s amateur draft. A switch-hitting catcher out of Regis Jesuit High School in Denver, Colorado, he’d become a coveted prospect after years of training alongside his father, Dan, one of the chief architects of the legendary […]
Developing Unicorn Fastballs with Mike McGuinness and Nolan Long
Mike McGuiness (CEO) and his brother Connor McGuiness are the co-founders of the hottest pitching tool in the market, Clean Fuego. Nolan Long is a RHP in the Dodgers organization and part of the Clean Fuego team. Mike and Nolan join Sammy this week to discuss: The back story of their baseball careers and the […]