The most common mistakes I see athletes make, when trying to develop power: • Not resting long enough between sets. • Doing too many reps. If the goal is to develop power, we want to keep fatigue out of it; rest periods need to be long and reps low.

Also Smoltz: "Bregman tried to pull that ball, that's why he was late on it" What?

This is a really good visual/feels explanation for the lower half. Sharing for all you young guns out there

If you’re really convinced that Jack is so far off with this, I’m curious what the hardest you’ve ever thrown a baseball, personally, is?

My point isn’t to say you have to throw hard to validate your ideas; my point is if you’re going to say that someone else’s ideas are necessarily wrong, I doubt you are a thrower yourself bc training yourself to throw hard tends to provide a dose of humility about what you “know”

Fun fact; they threw him on the mound in High-A Peoria for 1 inning at the end of the year in 2021 while I was there. Guy hadn't faced hitters in a game situation since high school and was 97-98 and went 1-2-3. Insane talent. Had us rethinking career choices in the bullpen 😆

A really important piece of advice for young players (that most have to learn the hard way); there are diminishing returns when it comes to absolute strength. Some of the adaptations you get from lifting heavy aren't necessarily ideal for moving well and staying healthy.

Love this; so similar to the ability to throw strikes as a pitcher. No one wants to walk guys; if your value add as a coach is to tell pitchers not to walk guys, you should go find a new profession.

It's more sustainable to spend on developing pitching than to spend on a couple big free agent arms. Arms are volatile, you need a lot of them because they break. It's pretty easy to see this is the approach the Dodgers, Rays, etc take. Not sure how some orgs lag so far behind

Nothing screams “I don’t have much going on” like a grown man googling the stats of a athlete who is getting after it so he can criticize him on Twitter. Read “the man in the arena” and guess which one you are.