How guys rotate is the most complicated, but most important part of the puzzle. Of all the style involved in the swing, rotation is the one thing that unites us all. It doesn’t have to look a certain way, but certain things do need to happen. Great hitters are great
If overcoming inertia is how a hitter moves sideways, creating leverage is where a hitter works from when both feet come back to the ground. Snapshots in time aren’t great ways to evaluate the totality of a movement. But the geometry of where guys work from at landing gives us
In the back room of a drab Moscow restaurant, Elon Musk had finally had enough. The year was 2002. Musk was in Russia looking at the price for what he thought was two Depnr rockets. The decommissioned missiles were the start of what he hoped would become a world changing
You’re about to meet a hitter for the first time. You know nothing about him other than his name. You have a handful of tools. You have one hour. You want to create a positive experience for them, knowing this might be the only time you ever have the chance
It was about a year ago I read something that stopped me in my tracks. I read it in Tom Verducci’s book The Cubs Way – a behind the scenes look at how the 2016 Chicago Cubs finally won it all, breaking their infamous 108-year World Series drought. Theo Epstein
A little over four years ago, I sat in front of my computer and typed out my final piece for the Medaille Perspective Newspaper: “A Letter From the Editor – Thanks Medaille.” While much of my time with the newspaper was spent capturing the stories of our student athletes, faculty,
On a cool fall night in Lubbock, TX, Mike Leach’s Texas Tech Red Raiders football team had eight seconds to pull off the unthinkable. The year was 2008. On the opposing sideline stood Mack Brown – head coach of the number one ranked Texas Longhorns. Three seasons ago, Brown hoisted
Last winter, I was introduced to a young college hitter. Born and raised in Hawaii, he was in his freshman season at a small junior college just outside Riverside, CA – the same school one of our longtime players was at. They became close throughout the fall. One day he
Below is a question I received from a good friend that turned into a glimpse of how I believe skills should be acquired, blended, and tested so they can show up when the lights turn on. This process (and piece) is not a finished product, but I think it is
In 1974, Paul Slovic – Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon – put a group of professional horse gamblers to the test. Slovic, a pupil under Nobel researcher Daniel Khaneman, designed a series of horse races. The gamblers – men and women who made a living off their