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Professional baseball really is an enigma.
On one hand, some professional players are bad-bodied one-trick ponies who aren’t athletic enough to train their way out of a wet paper bag. And, many of them are okay with it.
On the other hand, you’ve got players getting arrested for crimes so stupid that you wonder if they [...]

Just over three years ago, during a period where oblique strains were on the rise in professional baseball and the USA Today profiled this “new” injury, I wrote an article on what I perceived to be the causes of the issue.  Check it out: Oblique Strains and Rotational Power.
This year, the topic has come back [...]

I received a few separate emails this week from folks wondering how I plan our guys’ off-season throwing programs to include everything from long toss, to weighted baseballs, to mound work.
Most people expect to be handed a simple throwing program – as one might receive with an interval throwing program following rehabilitation.  The truth is [...]

In honor of the end of the minor league baseball season yesterday, I thought I’d go with a baseball-only theme today for our “Stuff You Should Read.” First, though, I thought I’d give you the heads-up that I finally broke down and got a Twitter account, on the recommendation of a few people.  If you’re [...]

1.  In today’s “s**t just got real” moment, I realized that I get married one month from today.  Just kidding; I am actually really excited for it. I just haven’t had much time to think about it because a) Anna is doing the overwhelming majority of the planning and b) I have a few big [...]