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What editing newspapers taught me about hitting
Just because we have more time doesn't mean we use it well
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The dangerous game we start to play when data loses context
We were warned over 40 years ago
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How a recent March Madness matchup illustrates a changing landscape in hoops
And how baseball helped create it
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The dangerous game we start to play when data loses context
We were warned over 40 years ago
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The "New School" Cookie Cutter Approach
"New" tools can't mask "old" techniques
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Bridge the Gap 2021 Highlights
Recapping some of the best moments and conversations from the weekend
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You need to hear what this NFL All-Pro WR said
"Players ask me for drills, and I'm always like..."
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Affordances: Making more pitches look "hit-able"
Is it a vision problem, or a swing problem?
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The Product Designed to Bust this Common Myth
We are everything without the ground. The ground is nothing without us.
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Did your pitchers get "vaccinated" this offseason?
No, not that vaccine
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How baseball fell victim to a mistake made during World War II
Remember the throwers who were suffering from a specific clinical "limitation?"
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Don't Blink: How a failed NFL career illustrates the ultimate hitting constraint
We don't know we need it until we run out of it
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What shooting a gun can teach us about pitching
It makes more sense when you think of it like this
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Our antidote to this human bias we've all experienced
What seems like a people problem is often a situation problem...
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Video Highlights from BTG20
Hear from Andy McKay, Zach Dechant, Rick Strickland, and Nathan Garza
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Video Highlights from BTG20: Part II
Hear from Donnie Ecker, Brian DeLunas, Fred Corral, Bobby Basham and Ken Crenshaw
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These two hitters are tearing up the 2021 MLB Postseason
For everything they don't share, they both do one thing really well
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The closest thing biomechanically to elite MLB players
It's not what you think
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Making players better by making them...worse?
The key to learning isn't just knowing what's good, but what's not so good
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Lukas Diehm: Summer Internship Recap
Lessons learned from my time with 108
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What "The Office" can teach us about crafting more powerful messages
"Can you explain this to me like I'm five?"
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The "equipment" you don't know is weighing you down
It's not that easy to let go of, either...
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What basketball's "Moneyball" should warn us about the future of baseball
"Old school" eyes often see what "new school" data cannot
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The parallels between skill acquisition & this common driving mistake
The pitfalls of our brain's natural tendency to throw tasks on autopilot
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What a 1994 NYPD mistake can teach us about coaching
Why "ghost victories" allude us into a false sense of success
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Bat to Ball Principles: The Importance of Spacing
Several strategies great hitters use to produce consistent, quality contact
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What cracking a towel can teach us about hitting & pitching
A new way to look at something you've never thought about before
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What opening a pickle jar can teach us about Separation
We've been calling it hip to shoulder separation, but is it really shoulder to hip?
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Gerrit Cole is back
His second season in pinstripes might be his best one yet
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Everyone
can
kickback, but not everyone
needs
to
There's one thing everyone needs to do, however...
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Four "Magic Tricks" to Try
They won't work for everyone, but one will be magic for someone
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Why you Need to Train In-Season
Don't let all your work this winter go to waste
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We Got it Backwards
We're making things important because we can measure them, not...
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Why your best arms might not be pitchers
Probably because they don't train like pitchers...
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Biotensegrity: Part I
What you need to know as a coach
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Biotensegrity: Part II
Putting the principles into action
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The only thing you can do wrong as a coach
Don't make this critical mistake
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Coaches and GPS Systems
Your role is a lot like what you use for directions
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Mass... doesn't equal Gas?
Part 1: It's not that simple...
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Mass... doesn't equal Gas?
Part 2: Breaking down the "outliers"
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Mass... doesn't equal Gas?
Part 3: Adding mass the right way
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Coaching using Analogies
10 of our favorites you can start using with your players today!
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Movement, Command, and Creating a Competitive Advantage
Bridge the Gap Recap Part II
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Data, Efficiency, and Asymmetries
Bridge the Gap Recap Part III
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Viruses, Tipping Points, & How one Video Completely Changed Baseball
For better, or for worse...
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Shapes, Sequencing, & Context
Bridge the Gap Recap Part I
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Why No One is Talking About One of Baseball's Biggest Stories
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Bigger than Baseball
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Robbie Ray's Changes & Why "Shorter" is NOT Always Better
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Bear Bryant, Gerrit Cole, and Dynamic Adjustability
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The Curious Case of Marcell Ozuna
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What Happened to Matt Harvey?
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How Falling Behind Can Get You Ahead
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Jake Arrieta: From fringe big leaguer to Cy Young winner
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Deductive Reasoning on Overload/Underload Training
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Forcing Movement Solutions: Tyler Kolek and Mike Soroka
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The Mobility Myth & Reverse Engineering from the Skill
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Finding the Source, Common Ground, & Exaggerating the Problem
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Trout vs. Harper: What makes Trout so good?
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Why one of baseball's "generational athletes" has lived up to the hype and the other has not
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Why Sprinters are Elite Rotators
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The Pitfalls of Separation
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Let the Research Catch up to Us
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The Case Against Pitch Design
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The Paradox of Symmetry & Our Education Problem
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What We Can Learn from Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Issues with Still Shots & Learning from Skateboarders
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The Problem with Our Current Education System
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Five Tools
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Adaptations are not Limitations
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Sequencing vs. Efficiency
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What makes elite athletes elite?
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Aaron Judge has a Problem
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Trout vs. Harper: What makes Trout so good?
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