I’m excited to announce that I’ll be serving as the Director of Pitching Development at @ACU_Baseball! I’m incredibly grateful to my family, friends, colleagues, and players who have supported me along the way. In addition, I want to thank @rick_mccarty31 and the rest of the

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ACU staff for the opportunity. I can’t wait to get to work, compete, and win some ballgames!.

scoring logic. I’m looking forward to seeing how you use it and what trends you find! . App Link: App Tutorial:

objectively. In turn, coaches and players will be given objective feedback that will help with tracking progress over time. I’ve attached the link to the app below, along with a tutorial on how to use it. This tutorial also includes the reasoning behind the app’s design and.

Recently, I made my first R Shiny app that measures command using an intended target versus the actual location of a pitch. While command is very hard to quantify due to having a lot of variables, this tool provides a visual and data driven way to evaluate execution/command more.

challenge level, and practical .ways to program for deeper skill development. The link to the blog is below. Please let me know what you think and thank you for reading!.

I recently wrote a blog titled "Avoiding the Middle in Skill Acquisition." It explores how athletes learn most efficiently and how coaches can design practice environments to better support that development. It covers key ideas around progression,.

as a strikeout/whiff pitch. I'm excited to see how the rest of his season goes. Thank you for reading! If you enjoyed this, shoot me a follow for more!.

Crochet will most likely throw his cutter and fastball early in the count while throwing his sweeper or fastball late in the count. Against Yankee lefties early in the count, he will throw his fastball the most, followed by his cutter and sinker, and throw his sweeper.

Looking at data from baseball savant, he also has the lowest arm slot of his career and has decreased his extension. This I found to be interesting because all his shapes are pretty much the same. Against Yankee righties,.

left/right handed hitters. This season, he has primarily utilized his fastball (42.9%) and cutter (29.2%) while primarily mixing in his sinker (12.1%), sweeper (10.2%). Occasionally, he mixes in his change up primarily to right handed hitters (5.6%).

With Garrett Crochet starting tomorrow against the Yankees and him having a great season so far, I was interested in how he has attacked hitters throughout the 2025 season. Below and using R, I recreated his pitch movement plot and created a heat map, based on location, versus

Thank you so much for reading and please comment/dm me if you have any observations! Would love to know what you think!.

doing so, we not only maximize each pitcher’s effectiveness but also create a sustainable pitching repertoire that align with their natural abilities, whether that’s missing bats, inducing weak contact or a combination of both.

whiff rate, it could lead a pitcher to perform worse if not utilized properly with their other pitches. Instead, we, as coaches, need to look at the pitcher individually and build a development plan around their unique strengths, movement patterns, and pitch characteristics. By.

to optimize performance. It’s important for coaches and pitchers not to force things, like trying to turn a sinkerball pitcher into a four seam guy just to chase more whiffs or boost strikeout rate. While adding a four seam could result in a higher.

with a pitcher’s arsenal and approach is key to accurately evaluating and improving a pitcher’s overall skillset. A coach/player must look at other pitching data points such as Vertical/Horizontal Approach Angle, pitch characteristics, pitch usage and in zone percentage in order.