Throughout time, there have been ongoing battles between two sides.

Intelligence versus power.

I make the relation to weapons because I consider a player’s attributes consistent with weapon systems. The actual weapon systems, the strength and power at which they can destroy or dominate a target, are completely worthless without an ability for task, application, targeting, strategy, and execution. The same holds true for the pitching motion, throwing arm, and pitch types of any given pitcher in the environment of baseball training and game. Understanding how your body movement and positioning is vital. Understanding the goal of your pitching specific movement is to get the hitter out is vital. Understanding that the location and execution of the pitch you throw is the most important aspect of getting the hitter out, is vital.  Pitching accuracy is the greatest attribute a pitcher may possess in terms of success.  We are here to guide you on your journey to true pitching command by means of understanding the motor that drives our ability to throw pitches to desired targets, our brain and its ability to execute that action at optimal levels. I digress.

In the grand scheme of athletic life, the game of baseball is still a very young sport. We are stuck in an era where the culture continues to be awed by the measurables of the game—how far the ball can be hit, how hard the ball can be thrown. Reality, however, shows that just being able to hit far and throw hard does not make you a good baseball player. It simply means you are adept at those things.

Applying technique and skill in measurables to the game and being consistent in your performance is the ultimate goal—a goal of which many aspiring players fall short. Players go through their careers witnessing fellow players at the highest level of the game, college athletes, draftable prospects, and what scouts seem to show the most interest in. And generally what is witnessed is what is imitated, and so the game continues to be played the way culture beckons it to be played: powerfully. Yes, the best in the world produce quality results. In the end, producing players that yield quality results and help contribute to winning games are all that matter to professional organizations and college institutions regardless of what culture thinks is refelcted. Measurables diminish because distance, player speed, pitch velocity, and “stuff” are all essentially worthless without the ability to apply them correctly to a particular skill set. Correctly and consistently applying just an average skill who continues to develop said skill can create an elite player with impeccable results. This is where the culture of the game subsides.

The game wants power, measurables, tools, things that according to culture are moldable to create an elite contributor. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy, and the player ultimately suffers. Years and years of training/grooming players’ mindsets to excel at certain measurables eventually creates a statue player, a player with the inability to make the adjustments (unless strategically broken down) needed to actually apply measurables in deft practice.

It’s not because they aren’t coachable; it’s because changing a static thought process of any given measurable that has been ingrained over the course of eight to ten year and then applying the results over the course of three years in college or one to two years professionally is an extreme feat, especially while players are actively playing in collegiate or professional games. It takes a serious commitment by the player to address such needs for change, and the willingness to sacrifice output for the time being to gain new skills. Many players with great measurables fail because they mentally struggle greatly to make the adjustment from power to application and intelligence, while fewer players with correct applications of their skills who are successful through their entire career may fly “under the radar” in terms of prospectus and may never be given the opportunity to develop physically or improve / optimize “measurables” or movements after mastered application. It’s an epidemic among the game that needs further reflection.

Pitching is a particular skill set, and the art of pitching has nothing to do with how hard you throw the baseball. Elite pitching statistics can be produced with or without the attribute of good/great/exceptional velocity across any level of the game. The mission is to create pitchers who want to be successful first, while continuing to work toward their velocity goals. There is a major difference in the chronology of training, how developing skills are introduced and applied for those who don’t possess them, that is important for aspiring pitchers to understand. They need to learn, train, and apply the skill of commanding a pitch’s location first and foremost, as this is the most important aspect to pitching success. Elite results can be produced by a pitcher’s ability to command correct areas of the strike zone. Applying intelligence of pitch type and location can yield even better results and improve individual performance. Notice velocity is not even in the equation yet as a pitcher with elite results is being discussed.

Our mission is to change the culture of the game, to adhere, praise, and build up pitchers who may be successful to extremely successful in nature due to their ability to command pitches to locations. This core ability can yield even better results when velocity is stacked on command ability. The mission is to encourage aspiring pitchers to achieve what is achievable today: commanding locations while letting nature and science take their course with velocity development (see E-Guide).

Our mission is to shift the paradigm of what successful pitching truly is, and convey that velocity is not the key to sure fire success. Our goal is to make you think hard about how you are developing yourself as a pitcher, and if you are doing what you think will bring you success, or if you are doing what baseball culture tells you to do. Helping pitchers draw the line between fame and fortune and being a success in all forms of performance the ultimate goal. We believe our approach can not only bring both, but the ones who succeed in their training could be of the elite status, not of the “potential” project status.

The mission is to help pitchers make a very important decision, how do you define success?  

Improving your control and increasing your understanding of command is essential to success.  My E-Guide on commanding locations will help you start your journey toward that optimizing that skill set!