by The BDG Team | Apr 13, 2016 | Athletes, Coaches
The fact that injury rates are highest in the first couple months of the Major League Baseball season (e.g., Posner et al., 2011) is just one of several indications that many professional baseball players are going into Spring Training unprepared. Poorly-designed...
by The BDG Team | Mar 15, 2016 | Performance Team
Mike Reinold just launched a great article this week sharing his thoughts on the potential risks of poorly-implemented velocity programs (emphasis on “poorly-implemented”). If you haven’t read it yet, we encourage you to go check it out here. To briefly recap, the...
by The BDG Team | Feb 21, 2016 | Research Review
In the first edition of the Baseball Research Review, we take a look at a recent prospective study by Wilk et al. published in the October 2015 edition of the American Journal of Sports Medicine. This study looked at the association of various measures of glenohumeral...
by The BDG Team | Feb 1, 2016 | Coaches, Performance Team
Let’s face it: Throwing a baseball at near-maximal velocities is inherently stressful. As such, pitching is not exactly an activity that lends itself well to being repeated hundreds of times each week over the course of a long competitive baseball season. Yet, that is...
by The BDG Team | Oct 27, 2015 | Coaches
It’s the middle of August and for some of us, the summer season is coming to a close. As such, high school and collegiate players are beginning to face some tough questions. What am I going to do for off-season training? Where am I going to accomplish this? What...
