What are the Best Band Exercises for Pitchers

There is certainly no shortage of baseball band exercises for pitchers. There are so many floating around that it can make your head spin. We use band exercises for pitchers as a part of our pre-throwing routine and over the years we have refined them down to what we believe to be the min / max of what you should be doing.

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How to Increase Your Pitching Velocity in the Weight Room

There are 10 topics that every pitcher’s strength training program MUST ADDRESS.  These topics are easy to incorporate in any training program and when incorporated properly can help increase your velocity.

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What to Do for Arm Care after Pitching / Throwing?

Although most pitchers think of a pre-throwing warm-up routine when it comes to arm care, many aren’t aware that a post-throwing arm care and recovery protocol is just as important.  Basically, it should involve a cool down circuit and soft tissue work that can be performed in 20-25 minutes. The primary purpose is to help restore lost mobility during the outing.

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What to Expect after Tommy John Surgery

Tommy John Rehab

During the past several years, we have been rehabbing many ball players sent to us by various well-renowned surgeons in the NY/NJ area with great success. Today, we are going to cover a topic that unfortunately has become more mainstream than ever, What to Expect after Tommy John Surgery? We’re going to review what goes into bringing a pitcher or position payer back from Tommy John surgery as QUICKLY and as SAFELY as possible.

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What is a Seam-Shifted Wake Pitch (in simple terms)?

You may have heard of the “Laminar Express” as Trevor Bauer used to call it, or the Seam-Shifted Wake (“SSW”) as it has been called more recently. During the past few years, we have begun to really understand the seam-shifted wake.  If you’ve been wondering what it’s all about and how it impacts pitcher’s ball movement, this article is for you, as we cover:

    • The History
    • How to Throw a SSW
    • Technology and SSW
    • How it’s Observed
    • Examples

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What is the Most Effective 4-Seam Tilt Axis in MLB?

There is certainly no shortage of data available from MLB for on-field performance by pitchers and players. In this article, we have combined data from several sources, including FanGraphs and Baseball Savant, to help identify the most effective pitch movement patterns in Major League Baseball. More specifically, we analyzed the performance of 4-seam fastballs from major league pitchers during the 2021 season (392 right-handed), by comparing slugging averages against horizontal, vertical movements and tilt axes of fast baseballs.

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How did our Pitchers do this Spring?

Before we begin, we would like to extend our congratulations to Alex Kranzler (junior from Old Tappan High School) for earning All-State NJ.com “Player of the Year” honors.  This is a significant accomplishment and it’s a credit to his hard work these past few years at RPP.  He has been pitching, throwing and training at RPP since 2019 and probably spent over a total of 150 hours training this past off-season.  Alex’s fastball was up to 93 mph this spring.  Congrats Alex (as a side note Sean Hard also from RPP earned the same state-wide honor in 2021, he was up to 95 mph).

Ok, so how did our pitchers do this spring?

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