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SAVING YOUR LIFE

Japan has a COVID infection rate of 1 person per 100,000 while the USA rate is about 60 people per 100,000.

TAIJUAN AND CARSON

How does a 16-year-old nudge the radar to 87 when a giant major leaguer in the prime of his career can scrounge only four more clicks on the gun?

Tom Terrific and the Art of Pitching

Tom Seaver died this month, his great mind ravaged by dementia. There is a tragic irony here because Seaver was one of the smartest, shrewdest, most creative pitchers to ever step on the beam clay of an MLB bump

Justin Verlander knows a Secret

I was watching video of Verlander in the Series and it jumped off my computer screen like a cricket in heat. This guy gets the ball out of his glove so fast it’s a blur. It’s like he’s in a hurry to get home.

SEE HOW EASILY….YOU CAN THROW HARD

SEE HOW EASILY……YOU CAN THROW HARD

“How’s that baseball thing working out?”

One day Walt Burrows looked out the window and saw a kid working out. Throwing. Taking groundballs. The kid looked like an elite athlete.

OBLIQUE TEAR SIDELINES ROWAN WICK

It wasn’t much. Just an awkward little twist. But it ripped a tear in his left oblique.

Wick closes with his cutter

Five years ago I did a session with Rowan Wick and his dad, Clayton. Working on a cutter/slider. The third time he unleashed the Rawlings screamed, “Whoosh.” It sliced 10 inches sideways like a machete. It went supersonic and bit into the air like a crocodile. It sounded like it was in pain. It wasn’tContinue reading “Wick closes with his cutter”