My college baseball career ended a little over a month ago. Here are 5 lessons I learned over my playing time that I believe to be true. A thread🧵:

𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗼𝗳𝗳. #FearTheWheat x #JustDoIt

Excited to announce my commitment to Pittsburg State University to continue my academic and athletic career. Thank you to my Family, Coaches, Teammates, and Friends for pushing me and having the belief in me to get to this point where I am today.

Officially in the transfer portal. One year of D1 eligibility left. FB: 86-89 (T90) SI: 85-89 (AVG HORZ -20.1) CH: 79-82 SL: 79-83 Previous schools: Washburn University Neosho County CC Metrics are from a preseason bullpen during the first week of my ramp up this year.

This dude is throwing an 87mph KNUCKLEBALL paired with a 94mph Fastball The future is here. @StoolBaseball

Eck is the best place to play college baseball in the country and all of the new upgrades only make it better!

A memorable @Blaney celebration. #NASCARPlayoffs #Championship4

Shilo Sanders’ famous last words during the Nebraska-Colorado coin toss 🤣 “We about to roll your a**… boy you know we about to roll you bruh.”

Nebraska fans today

‼️My Swing Journey‼️ I’m here to help the players coming up but haven’t ever talked about the journey I had to take to learn what I know today. It’s impossible to explain in a post but here’s a little information🧵:

Tread University with the most pitcher draft picks in the 2023 MLB Draft! @TreadHQ

While you can’t teach 6’6”, you CAN learn to become a physical beast in the weight room. It’s a safe assumption to believe with Skenes notable work ethic and an additional 25 lbs he is now able to sustain these high velocities better than anyone else in college baseball.

Last, is Skenes conditioning. In high school Paul Skenes was listed at 6’6” 225 lbs with an average fastball velocity of 91 mph. Now, Skenes is listed at 6’6” 250 lbs with an average velocity of 99.7 mph against Tennessee.

Most people write theirs fairly quick and it comes out looking nice, but if you were to slow down to write it you would create more time or more room to mess it up. The pitching delivery can be looked at the same way.

Tempo is “the rate or speed of motion or activity; pace”. Typically, a quicker tempo on the mound will serve to be more beneficial. By this I mean when the tempo is quicker you have less time or less room for error. Think of writing a signature for example

-Step on the rubber -Pick up your sign -Big inhale/exhale -Throw -Repeat After going through this several times you begin to create a flow or rhythm.

So, what factors into Skenes being so repeatable? His ability to create both rhythm and tempo in his delivery. Rhythm by definition is “a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement”. This can be seen when a pitcher performs a good pre and post pitch routine.

But it’s not too different from a velocity standpoint either. As I’ve talked about above, your body must sequence and transfer energy extremely well in order to hit high velocities. To then be able to do that for 7+ innings takes an extreme amount of repeatability.

To put it in perspective, if a pitcher misses a spot by one foot it means his release point deviated by only one degree. That’s all. This leaves for a massive amount of potential error from a command standpoint.

Next, is repeatability What is it and how might it be helpful? Let’s start with understanding how incredibly hard it is to get your body to move through an identical movement over and over.

The point is if you want to reach high velocities and maintain it for long periods you need to learn to move really well. Of course, strength, size and power output are major factors to consider in velocity, but then again, Marcus Stroman is 5’7” and Jacob DeGrom is 180 lbs.