Baseball Pitching: The Fix

Coaching the Coaches: Part One I am joined by Varsity Pitching Coach Alex Wilde of Ponderosa High School in this first of a three-part series. Alex and I will be talking about issues and questions important to youth and high-school pitching coaches. A fall-ball throwing schedule was just one of the topics discussed today. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

Lower Body Stride Mechanics: are you moving towards your target? This episode teaches about the importance of the direction of your stride for power and control and how which side of the rubber you stand on can have a negative effect on performance as well as arm health. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

Maximum Velocity Produced By The Way You Use Your Shoulder During Acceleration: How To Do It Watch this episode on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/McGH6XiY1SM  In another visual teaching episode, Angel demonstrates with Jacob the most efficient style of shoulder acceleration for maximal velocity production. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

Pitching Motion Mechanics: the first important and magical arm angle The pitching motion is made up of many upper and lower body angles and skills. In today’s episode, the first arm angle is demonstrated and discussed. You will see something magical that can happen when you hit this spot with its required timing. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gnhVD_5T_p4  Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

Velocity and Injury Vulnerability: Put this Item on your Pitching-motion Efficiency Checklist Angel and Jacob do a live demo on how stride-foot placement can affect (increase or decrease) velocity and your injury vulnerability profile.  Watch it on You Tube at Angel Borrelli Pitching Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

Three Delivery Styles that Create Elbow Problems and Limit Velocity The most recent recommendation to increase the size of the baseball and its weight to eliminate elbow injuries is the topic of discussion.  Jacob and I talk about a much simpler and more practical way to attack the epidemic and also fill the need to increase velocity…the safe way. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

Pitching Injuries: Velocity is Not the Enemy   In today’s episode, two power pitchers, Rallin Covey and Joe DeMers, join me to discuss the MLB Pitching Injury Report. You don’t want to miss this episode to get a fresh and different perspective that brings hope to the pitching injury situation. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

From Pitching Styles to Warm-ups and Everything In-Between: Tips to Take Advantage of Every Moment For Improvement This episode is filled with small things you can do and think about today that add-up to improvements tomorrow. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

Fastball, Change-Up, Slider: Using Kinesiology to Improve your Ball Release Knowledge is power and in this episode, Jacob and I discuss some of my troubleshooting tips for ball release issues that can help some of the most common ball flight errors for the fastball, change-up and slider. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

Finishing Your Pitch: The Most Overlooked Part of Your Motion Seven muscles of your shoulder, elbow, forearm, and fingers work harder in the deceleration phase of the motion than the acceleration phase. You will learn what you can do right now to improve this part of your pitching motion and how it translates into better velocity, better location, and most importantly, injury prevention. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

Troubleshooting The Glove Arm When is the last time you thought of the glove arm as a major player in location, velocity, and timing of the pitching motion? It’s possible you never thought of it because it is the most overlooked body part in the entire delivery. In this podcast, I will teach you how to see what you’re looking at as well as the three most common flaws, and how to troubleshoot the possible causes. I’ve got two throwing drills that you will love! Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

In today’s episode you will see four exercises that will give you feel for the muscles responsible for accelerating the ball. Starting with an easy floor movement to an advanced movement in the gym, do these exercises to find your velocity muscles. Be sure and go to Angel Borrelli Pitching on YouTube to listen and see today’s “videocast”. https://youtu.be/zctmBPW3vyw  Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

The Most Important Arm Angle/Timing During the Pitching Motion With photos and videos, this episode discusses the importance of the arm angle at stride-foot-contact and its effect on acceleration and ball release.  Injuries, late-arm depictions, and ideas for identifying and correcting a flaw in this phase of the motion are included in this very comprehensive teaching moment. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

Location Accuracy and UCL Protection: four must-haves for your training arsenal This episode provides unique information about the finger and forearm muscles for location accuracy and explains, through exercises, how to improve your control and at the same time strengthen the important muscles surrounding the UCL. See the drills on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/x9AQ8iJCJbw Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com

Pitching Mechanics and Training Methods:  the connection to the current elbow injury epidemic Looking at mechanics and training methods as possible contributing factors to the pitching injury crisis is not only necessary to understand the entire scope of the situation but also to eliminate blind spots that keep us from finding solutions.  Don’t miss this podcast with video demonstrations that, I guarantee, will give you food for thought. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

Looking for Velocity in All the Right Places Need I say more. Continuing the discussion from my last podcast, you will see photos, examples and drills that demonstrate the importance of releasing the ball as close to the plate as possible. Jacob and I also discuss the continued injury epidemic in the baseball world and I talk about my take and experience as a troubleshooter of the pitching motion, inserting some light into this very dark topic. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

Pitching Injuries: Avoid These Two Lower Body Mistakes I found my inspiration for this first episode from an excellent article about the dangerous state of pitching injuries.  While there were many differing opinions on why injuries are on the increase, I thought it was time for me to talk about how I solve injury issues and arm problems on a day-to-day basis in my work as a pitching motion troubleshooter. You will be learning about specific errors in the pitching motion that render a pitcher more vulnerable to injury and hopefully, new ways to look at your pitchers. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

Creative Ideas for On-the-Field Pitcher Development If you’re on the field during these Fall months, it’s a perfect time for pitching coaches to get creative and focus on some of the individual skills and details that can easily be overlooked during the season when velocity and throwing strikes take-up all the attention. Along with my co-host Joe DeMers, I share some thoughts and offer some ideas on how to make the next few months extra-productive for you and your pitchers. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

Pitching Velocity and Injuries: one does not have to lead to the other In today’s podcast, I wanted to offer a perspective on ways to offset the current trend in elbow injuries as a result of increased velocity. There are things to think about, approaches, training, and hope that I offer to pitchers and coaches to inspire a full-scale effort to keep our pitchers safe as they continue to pursue the one thing that is not going away: a faster fastball. Links from today's episode: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/velocity-at-what-cost-mlb-s-hardest-throwers-keep-succumbing-to-tommy-john-surgery/ar-AA1g23GN  https://www.instagram.com/p/CxIZ7ZJLfmk/  Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

Off-Season Training…Do Not Miss This Phase of Your Development In this month’s podcast, I talk about the benefits of off-season training and present some guidelines for things to consider when making decisions and creating a schedule. You do not want to misuse the valuable time you have at this important time of the year. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com