by The BDG Team | Dec 27, 2017 | Performance Team
It comes with great pleasure and excitement for us to announce that Baseball Development Group has brought on Mike Sonne, PhD, as our Research Director. A major reason for founding BDG was to help grow the game of baseball by answering some of the infinite number of...
by Admin BDG | Oct 11, 2016 | Athletes, Coaches, Performance Team
The proponents of Dynamic Systems Theory advocate that there is no central governor pressing an ‘pitch the baseball’ button in the brain. The believe that movements self-organize as a result of the boundaries or constraints placed on the system; the task,...
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 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 Admin BDG | Nov 8, 2015 | Athletes, Performance Team
I’m not sure why, but I’ve recently received a rapid influx of questions regarding optimal “recovery”. Concerns over recovery at this time of the year are a little confusing, considering we’re in the middle of the off-season. (I’ll explain why...
by Admin BDG | Jul 20, 2015 | Coaches, Performance Team
“Coach, my arm reallllly hurts” When a player comes to you talking about being in pain, as a coach, you are immediately thrust into a position of responsibility and confronted with some difficult decisions. Do you pull the player out of the game? Switch...
