Category: Podcast

Today we’re sitting down with nationally renowned Texas A&M pitching Nate Yeskie. Having joined the Aggies in June 2021, he has long history of coaching at the highest echelons of college baseball. Before Texas A&M, he was with Arizona after coaching for 11 seasons with Oregon State.

During his nearly 18-year career, he has chiseled out a reputation as one of the elite pitching coaches in the country. He has taken his pitching staff to the College World Series with Oregon, Arizona and Texas A&M, which is quite an accomplishment. He has twice earned National Pitching Coach of the Year recognition from Collegiate Baseball and was tabbed the D1 Baseball Assistant Coach of the Year in 2017.

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This one is coming to you live from The Bridge Seminar at Wake Forest University, where I presented this weekend. In today’s podcast I’ll be summarizing many (not all) of the great presenters at this year’s player development seminar. It was a blast speaking with, as well as listening and learning from some of, the best in the business of baseball player development.  Topics include:

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Today’s podcast is with Mike McFerran, Director of Player Development for the Wake Forest Baseball program and Coordinator of the Wake Forest Pitching Lab.  Join us as we discuss a variety of topics, including:

• • Marker vs marker-less mocap systems
  • The pipeline from data testing to actual training
  • Interpretation VS misinterpretation when using data
  • Deciding when a mechanical issue is a mobility problem

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Today’s podcast is with Brian Bannister, Director of Pitching for the San Francisco Giants. Join us as we discuss a variety of topics including:

• • Developing pitchers in the minor leagues
  • Group think and baseball
  • Short Strengthening Cycle (SSC) and training pitchers
  • Muscle guys vs. tendon guys
  • What’s on the horizon for pitcher development and training

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I’ll be flying solo this Thanksgiving weekend, covering some of the questions I receive from the audience on the off-season “to-do” list. Off-season is a great time to address a variety of topics that you should deal with to improve in-season performance.  Topics will include:

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In today’s podcast we are sitting down and talking pitching mechanics with Lantz Wheeler. Lantz is the Founder and CEO of the Baseball Think Tank, the inventor of the Core Velocity Belt, and owner and operator of the nationally renowned annual Pitch-a-Palooza conference.  And he is definitely no stranger to coaching pitchers.

I have known Lantz for many years, and I have been really looking forward to this Podcast.  I can tell you listening to Lantz is always highly educational and definitely entertaining. He has a way of simplifying complex human movement patterns into simple terms that most people can relate to.

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Today’s podcast is with Red Sox pitching coach Brett Merritt. Brett has coached college baseball for over a decade at pretty much all levels of the game, from JUCO to Division 1, prior to joining the professional ranks with the Red Sox in 2020 as the Salem Red Sox pitching coach.

Today, Brett talks about all of the “knowledge bombs” that have dropped on him since working his way up the ranks from college to his job with the Red Sox organization, as well as integrating different systems in pro ball.

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Today, we’re taking a deep dive into the recruiting process with Patrick Jones of Patrick Jones Baseball.

Patrick is a graduate of Xavier University where he played D1 baseball for 4 years. He is also a former hitting coach with the Baltimore Orioles. If you’ve ever listened to one of his podcasts, you’d know that his passion for the game is bar none and today’s discussion on recruiting is no different.

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Today’s podcast is with RPP Director of Hitting Andrew Pezzuto and we’re going to discuss on-plane efficiency and its role in making consistent hitters, how we measure it, how we work to improve it and how we strive to replicate it to a high degree given the variable nature of hitting a baseball.

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Today’s podcast is with RPP Pitching Coordinator Alex Kubera on the topic of developing command.  In the age of velocity, command sometimes takes a back seat. However, the reality is velocity may get you the look, but command gets you time on the mound.  If you can’t “control” the pitch, you won’t be throwing strikes or seeing much playing time. And if you can’t “command” it, then it will be harder to the wins against high level players.  Join us as we discuss a variety of great topics related to command:

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