#MNTwins No. 8 prospect Brent Rooker puts USA Baseball on top with a long two-run dinger.

Ronald Acuña Jr. and his 14 year old brother side-by-side.

Also, the faster you swing the bat the more likely you are to hit the ball hard. Make swinging fast a priority.

Here's an interesting look at the peaks and valleys a hitter goes through in quality of contact during a season. I plotted a rolling 10 batted-ball average xWOBA for Cody Bellinger during 2019.

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

Any guys needing a place to throw before #SpringTraining in the Rochester/Western NY area... Some tools we have available: - Edgertronic video - Rapsodo - Motus - Plyoballs (w/ plyo wall) - Catcher - Rubber mound (not turf) Anyone interested, DM me.

“If you from last year couldn’t intern with current you and learn something, you’re doing something wrong.” Great quote about personal growth from Gerry DeFilippo on his podcast.

Foundations of Hitting Certification ✅ Shout out to Driveline Baseball, Jason Ochart, Max Dutto and everyone involved in creating the course for delivering a top quality product as always.

It’s been great using LamTrack to create these reports for our pitchers. Very excited to launch the complete version 1.0 of our RShiny App this coming week, which will house and automatically generate these reports for our pitchers.

Allen Murphy - P/OF (R/L)- THREAD Undrafted free agent. HITTING: Video from hitting session on (6/21), (data from 6/23 via @Rapsodo). 95.4mph avg Exit Velo 113.1mph max Exit Velo. 76.2mph Bat Speed (via Blast Motion) FLATGROUND Pitching FLATGROUND Hitting

Elite tools on both sides of the ball. There’s not an organization that wouldn’t benefit from signing a guy like Allen. FLATGROUND Pitching FLATGROUND Hitting

If the purpose of tunneling pitches is to fool hitters, why do we use a behind the mound view to evaluate pitch tunneling rather than the hitter's perspective? This study I published takes an in depth look at this concept: silverdawg.com/post/pitch-tun…

This study provided some important information on pitch tunneling. Now, we know that the typical behind-the-mound view can be misleading. Read more here: silverdawg.com/post/pitch-tun…

Here's a look at the leaders in barrel consistency (average EV/max EV) by count for 2020 hitters. Not surprisingly, hitters barrel the ball more consistently in advantage counts. The ability to barrel the ball consistently when behind in the count makes guys elite (@ Mookie 👀)

Big congratulations to Naomi Silver on being named to RBJ’s Power 100 list. My best friend and my true inspiration. RBJ's Power 100 List 2021 rbj.net/2021/02/26/rbj…

Call it a case of bait and switch going the right way (if there is such a thing). Ben Martin applied for a job last winter. The position the former C-C Saints Baseball star received was better than he could have imagined. Story: wp.me/pr1MB-wlX

The Friendly Confines can't contain Christopher Morel.

A name steeped in Rochester history❗️ Morrie Silver, Rochester Red Wings director of communications, carries on the multi-generational legacy of his namesake grandfather who saved baseball in the Flower City: atmilb.com/3FHjRzC

The Thanksgiving content you've been waiting for 🦃 Happy turkey day, Chicago Cubs fans!

Proud Rochester Moment 🥹 Ben Martin… 🔺a Rochester native 🔺former @rocredwings Grounds Crew Member 🔺 and St. John Fisher University Alum …joined the Iowa Cubs coaching staff last week to face off against the team he grew up loving. Martin is the Chicago Cubs Dominican Republic