‘Cookie-Cutter’ Approach Out the Window As Mark Mason Develops Pitchers

June 28, 2012 by Bob Wirz · Leave a Comment

Mark Mason has been unusually busy in recent days as interim manager of the Atlantic League’s two-time defending champion York (PA) Revolution while Andy Etchebarren recovers from his latest back surgery, but with that stretch ending he will slide back into concentrating on being a pitching coach with a record most people can only dream […]

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Fastball, Fastball, Fastball

August 30, 2010 by Ted Leavengood · Leave a Comment

On the web there are numerous video clips of Nolan Ryan throwing fastballs and they loop over and over, fastball after fastball ad infinitum, Ryan’s seemingly effortless delivery going on forever in some parallel universe where he will throw forever. Â That was my mental picture of where Stephen Strasburg should be as he neared the […]

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Touring the Bases With…Dave Baldwin

August 8, 2010 by Ted Leavengood · Leave a Comment

The confrontation between batter and hitter defines baseball. Â No one understands the scientific dynamic of those opposing forces better than Dave Baldwin, late sixties bullpen stalwart for the Washington Senators, a geneticist and engineer who studies batters and pitchers as mechanical and neurological entities. Â His insights are fascinating and offer some important instructive insight into […]

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