Josh Gessner
@joshgessner
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Joined August 2023
In 2019, I signed a contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. 5 years later, I haven't played in a single MLB game. Here's how the Minor Leagues work (and what it's like to be one):
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Day 23 of training to get drafted: Recently what I found out about my pitching delivery after working with Albertus at ThePitcherLab is that I actually throw harder across body. There’s a couple reasons for this. • I have no internal rotation in my hip. • I’m better able to
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Day 24 of training to get drafted: One of the biggest things I’m working on in my arsenal is having a pitch that’s a strikeout pitch against lefties. My main pitches right now are a two seam fastball, a hand of God slider, a sweeper, and I can throw a four seam as well. None
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Day 23 of training to get drafted: Recently what I found out about my pitching delivery after working with Albertus at ThePitcherLab is that I actually throw harder across body. There’s a couple reasons for this. • I have no internal rotation in my hip. • I’m better able to
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Day 22 of training to get drafted: I had a high intensity day and was showing 91 mph to 92 mph. The first thing the coaches at ThePitcherLab told me was that I looked slow getting down the mound. What they want me to do is accelerate down the mound better. The number one way
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Day 21 of training to get drafted: Today was a really productive training day. We did another live AB session, and it was a little bit lower effort. You can see my max was 85, but we do these three or four times a week. I’m really trying to face live hitters right now before
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Day 20 of training to get drafted: All right, I wanted to quickly talk about my current arsenal and what I’m thinking about it. Firstly, I throw a two seam fastball. This is my main fastball, and it gets a lot of horizontal, over 18 inches pretty consistently. It’s about 10
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Stop Pushing With Your Back Leg As I trained to throw harder, I thought I needed to create a ton of momentum down the mound and really push off the rubber. That was actually holding me back from gaining pitching velocity for a couple reasons. The first reason was that pushing
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Here’s why I stopped trying to get as much hip to shoulder separation as possible. If you’re actively thinking about rotating your hips and keeping your shoulders closed, it’s probably too slow because it’s really about timing. If you want to throw hard, you don’t want to force
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Day 19 of training to get drafted: The back foot in my pitching delivery is something I never really thought about, but now it’s one of the main things I’m using to assess if I’m rotating correctly. When I’ve been watching video, my biggest focus has been rotating efficiently
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5 cues that’ve helped me create more efficient hip to shoulder separation: 1. Get to your shoelaces. 2. Slam the knee down. 3. Keep the torso back with some side bend. 4. Keep the torso closed with a strong internally rotated glove outside. 5. Let the back leg rotate
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