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Baseball Pitching: The Fix
Baseball pitching motion analysis, troubleshooting, and performance based on science, featuring pitching motion troubleshooter Angel Borrelli - a Sport Kinesiologist with a Master's Degree in Exercise Science. Listen as Angel discusses the prevention and treatment of baseball pitching injuries, as well as science-based performance tips for baseball pitchers, coaches, and parents of all ages. More information on Angel can be found at https://gymscience.com
Episodes
Baseball Pitching: The FixS13E07 - Off-Season: Priority Train your Velocity Muscles
Off-Season: Priority Train your Velocity Muscles There are three upper body muscles that are correlated with high velocity pitching and they need to be trained…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS13E06 - See It and Fix It: In-the-Moment Troubleshooting Tips for the Baseball Pitcher
Correcting issues on the fly is necessary; I share some quick tips for quick results. This episode features Coach Alex Wilde of Ponderosa High School. Email…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS13E05 - Three Dangerous Trends in Pitching: what you need to know
In this episode, improper low back positioning, the inverted-w, and spike/kick-type pitch grips are discussed. This episode features Coach Alex Wilde of…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS13E04 - How to Listen to What Your Fastball is Telling You
In the teaching moment, we discuss the basics of the fingers and hands on the baseball and how to solve common problems of loss of velocity and command. High…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS13E03 - Coaches and Pitchers: Simple Guidelines for Pitching Days to Reduce the Risk of Elbow Damage
Coaches and Pitchers: Simple Guidelines for Pitching Days to Reduce the Risk of Elbow Damage High School Coach Davis Ellington joins Angel to discuss…
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S13E02 - Coach Ali Cepeda Goes Yard with Angel
Ali Cepeda hits a home run with great questions that every coach, pitcher, and father, should be asking. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS13E01 - Fastball Command: Are You Sure You're Behind the Ball?
S13E01 - Fastball Command: Are You Sure You're Behind the Ball? Velocity doesn't matter if you can't locate your fastball. This episode will walk you through a…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS12E11 - Going deep with Dr. Glenn Fleisig on elbow injuries, modified baseballs, mechanics, velocity and more
Going deep… with Dr. Glenn Fleisig… on elbow injuries, modified baseballs, mechanics, velocity and more. Don't miss this MVP episode! Email Angel Borrelli at…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS12E10 - Episode topics: arm injuries, a food-for-thought World Series viewing assignment, and new research on UCL injury risk factors
Episode topics: arm injuries, a food-for-thought World Series viewing assignment, and new research on UCL injury risk factors In anticipation of Dr. Glenn…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS12E09 - This is a "don't-miss episode" with tips that coaches can use right now - Baseball Pitching: The FIX S12E09
The Coaching the Coaches series continues: this third of four episodes features Coach Alex Wilde of Ponderosa High School asking some great questions and we…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS12E08 - Coaching the Coaches: Part Two - Out-of-the Glove Mechanics… and more
Coaching the Coaches: Part Two - Out-of-the Glove Mechanics… and more I am joined by Varsity Pitching Coach Alex Wilde of Ponderosa High School in the second…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS12E07 - Coaching the Coaches: Part One
Coaching the Coaches: Part One I am joined by Varsity Pitching Coach Alex Wilde of Ponderosa High School in this first of a three-part series. Alex and I will…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS12E06 - Lower Body Stride Mechanics: are you moving towards your target?
Lower Body Stride Mechanics: are you moving towards your target? This episode teaches about the importance of the direction of your stride for power and…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS12E05 - Maximum Velocity Produced By The Way You Use Your Shoulder During Acceleration: How To Do It
Maximum Velocity Produced By The Way You Use Your Shoulder During Acceleration: How To Do It Watch this episode on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/McGH6XiY1SM…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS12E04 - Pitching Motion Mechanics: the first important and magical arm angle
Pitching Motion Mechanics: the first important and magical arm angle The pitching motion is made up of many upper and lower body angles and skills. In today's…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS12E03 - Velocity and Injury Vulnerability: Put this Item on your Pitching-motion Efficiency Checklist
Velocity and Injury Vulnerability: Put this Item on your Pitching-motion Efficiency Checklist Angel and Jacob do a live demo on how stride-foot placement can…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS12E02 - Three Delivery Styles that Create Elbow Problems and Limit Velocity
Three Delivery Styles that Create Elbow Problems and Limit Velocity The most recent recommendation to increase the size of the baseball and its weight to…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS12E01 - Pitching Injuries: Velocity is Not the Enemy
Pitching Injuries: Velocity is Not the Enemy In today's episode, two power pitchers, Rallin Covey and Joe DeMers, join me to discuss the MLB Pitching Injury…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS11E10 - From Pitching Styles to Warm-ups and Everything In-Between: Tips to Take Advantage of Every Moment For Improvement
From Pitching Styles to Warm-ups and Everything In-Between: Tips to Take Advantage of Every Moment For Improvement This episode is filled with small things you…
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S11E09 - Fastball, Change-Up, Slider: Using Kinesiology to Improve your Ball Release
Fastball, Change-Up, Slider: Using Kinesiology to Improve your Ball Release Knowledge is power and in this episode, Jacob and I discuss some of my…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS11E08 - Finishing Your Pitch: The Most Overlooked Part of Your Motion
Finishing Your Pitch: The Most Overlooked Part of Your Motion Seven muscles of your shoulder, elbow, forearm, and fingers work harder in the deceleration phase…
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S11E07 - Troubleshooting The Glove Arm
Troubleshooting The Glove Arm When is the last time you thought of the glove arm as a major player in location, velocity, and timing of the pitching motion?…
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S11E06 - Find Your Velocity Muscles
In today's episode you will see four exercises that will give you feel for the muscles responsible for accelerating the ball. Starting with an easy floor…
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S11E05 - The Most Important Arm Angle/Timing During the Pitching Motion
The Most Important Arm Angle/Timing During the Pitching Motion With photos and videos, this episode discusses the importance of the arm angle at…
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S11E04 - Location Accuracy and UCL Protection: four must-haves for your training arsenal
Location Accuracy and UCL Protection: four must-haves for your training arsenal This episode provides unique information about the finger and forearm muscles…
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S11E03 - Pitching Mechanics and Training Methods: the connection to the current elbow injury epidemic
Pitching Mechanics and Training Methods: the connection to the current elbow injury epidemic Looking at mechanics and training methods as possible contributing…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS11E02 - Looking for Velocity in All the Right Places
Looking for Velocity in All the Right Places Need I say more. Continuing the discussion from my last podcast, you will see photos, examples and drills that…
Baseball Pitching: The FixS11E01 - Pitching Injuries: Avoid These Two Lower Body Mistakes
Pitching Injuries: Avoid These Two Lower Body Mistakes I found my inspiration for this first episode from an excellent article about the dangerous state of…
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S10E09 - Creative Ideas for On-the-Field Pitcher Development
Creative Ideas for On-the-Field Pitcher Development If you're on the field during these Fall months, it's a perfect time for pitching coaches to get creative…
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S10E08 - Pitching Velocity and Injuries: one does not have to lead to the other
Pitching Velocity and Injuries: one does not have to lead to the other In today's podcast, I wanted to offer a perspective on ways to offset the current trend…
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S10E07 - Off-Season Training… Do Not Miss This Phase of Your Development
Off-Season Training…Do Not Miss This Phase of Your Development In this month's podcast, I talk about the benefits of off-season training and present some…
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S10E06 - Pitching Injuries: are you increasing your own risk? Start taking responsibility for your future now.
Making sure your muscles are ready for the job that you are asking them to do is the most basic responsibility you have, and it is solely up to you, the…
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S10E05 - Jacob deGrom's Injury and a Discussion of The Late-Arm Syndrome
With nothing but the best to Jacob deGrom's future and his return to pitching, this podcast is dedicated to the importance of efficient and correct joint…
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S10E04 - Velocity and Forearm Injuries & Everything You Need to Know about the Sinker
Velocity and Forearm Injuries & Everything You Need to Know about the Sinker With photos of the forearm/wrist/fingers, Angel discusses the vulnerability of the…
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S10E03 - Crime Scene Investigation: what the location of your soreness/pain/or injury is telling you about your pitching motion
In this episode, Angel teaches you how to connect the dots between the location of some the most common areas of soreness and the most likely part of the…
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S10E02 - Pitchers Need to Pitch
Pitchers skipping bullpens or not going deep enough in their bullpens are often times errors of the way a pitcher is thought of, or should I say, not thought…
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S10E01 - Timing/Speed of the Stride and its Effects on Location and Velocity
Timing/speed of the stride and the sequencing of the arms with the stride are discussed as pitching motion priorities and the first-line of evaluation when the…
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S9E08 - Unlocking the Pitcher's Potential: a few mistakes you don't want to make
Unlocking the Pitcher's Potential: a few mistakes you don't want to make I have unfortunately witnessed things throughout the year that in terms of performance…
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S9E07 - Pitching Injuries: Seven Deadly Sins - Confessions and advice from ex D-1 pitcher Ian MacIver
In this arm-saving episode, we will discuss the side of the story that no one talks about or, better yet, warns you about. Signed as a Sophomore and forced to…
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S9E06 - Baseball Pitching Velocity: Your Seven-Step Checklist
S9E06 - Baseball Pitching Velocity: Your Seven-Step Checklist The title says it all. If you can't answer "yes" to these seven questions, the good news is…
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S9E05 - Bullpens are Sacred: Seven Ways to not waste Precious Time
Bullpens are Sacred: Seven Ways to not waste Precious Time In this second episode of my Summer Series of short podcasts designed to give you right now ideas…
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S9E04 - Locating your Pitches: a right-now suggestion for a right-now improvement
Locating your Pitches: a right-now suggestion for a right-now improvement Velocity doesn't matter if you can't locate your pitches. This episode will walk you…
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S9E03 - The Power Skill of the Pitching Motion: hip and trunk rotation
The Rotation Phase of the pitching motion transfers the energy into the pitching shoulder, elbow, and wrist. Efficient rotation includes the segments, their…
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S9E02 - How to Increase Velocity and Improve Ball Release Consistency while Reducing Shoulder Stress: Pitch from your Shoulder Blades
Understanding the role of the shoulder girdle muscles and its relationship to the shoulder can be complicated. By using photos and drills, I explain how adding…
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S9E01 - Your Stride: is it costing or adding to your velocity?
How do you get from your back leg to your front leg as you move downhill? If you don't know the answer, then you may be leaving MPH on the mound instead of…
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S8E15 - Improving Velocity: The optimal structural shapes of the pitching motion for a clean acceleration path to the plate
On your road to improved performance during this pre-season, don't forget to improve the specific angles and positions of each phase. The more efficient your…
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S8E14 - Your Return to Pitching: everything you need to know to plan for serious and tangible results
Getting your arm and pitching motion ready for the upcoming 2022 season should be your number one priority during this month of the off-season, and your…
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S8E13 - Split-finger Fastballs and Knuckle-Curves: use the gym to train your pitches
Exotic pitches, side-arm vs over-arm throwing, and determining stride length, are just some of the teaching moments taken from viewing the MLB playoff…
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S8E12 - What to do before you make an adjustment to a pitcher's delivery
In this episode, I talk about the importance of looking at how well a pitcher hits his "spots" in his delivery before you decide to adjust something that…
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S8E11 - Answering Coaches' Fall Ball Questions
In this episode, I answer questions from coaches regarding pitchers throwing BP and the ongoing issues around running. Coach Larry Owens hosts a discussion on…
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S8E10 - Some New Ideas and Precautions for Your Fall Ball Program
In this episode, Coach Larry Owens and I discuss the lost art of pitching inside and the moving of the mound back to 61'6". My line-up of topics included: Why…
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S8E9 - Sticky Fingers…and Sticking the Landing: Part Two
Don't miss this episode: live videos, drills, exercises… everything you need to wrap your brain around the importance of the stability of the front leg. TM…
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S8E8 - Sticky Fingers and Sticking your Landing: Part One…and how they are related
In this episode, Coach Larry Owens and I dive into the topic of the day: the use of sticky substances by MLB pitchers. I interviewed three younger pitchers and…
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S8E7 - Pitching Velocity and Command: how it can be compromised by Leading with the Elbow
Using a comparison to a quarterback's arm position, I discuss one of the most common flaws in shoulder mechanics that can cause inefficient spin, loss of…
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S8E6 - Finger "tips" for controlling the fastball: my six-drill plan to increase your feel for the release of the most important pitch in your arsenal
The fingers and fingertips are the last body part to have contact with the ball which makes them the most important body part to understand, have feel for, and…
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S8E5 - In-season Troubleshooting: the magical moment before max external rotation
In this episode, I share an "eye candy" moment from the mechanics of Giolito and Bieber. Using a detail of their mechanics as a sample, you will learn how to…
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S8E4 - In-season Troubleshooting
Incomplete rotation to the plate Timing Stretch vs. Wind-up stride differences… …are the topics discussed in this episode of The Fix. Troubleshooting a…
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S8E3 - Talking Velocity from the "outside in": the first steps to getting it done
With my guest, Associate Head Coach Jon Watson, who was a closer in college as well as a former pitching coach with the Angels' Minor League system, we take…
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S8E2 - A Very Special Episode of "The Fix" with Pete Caliendo
Listen to Angel being interviewed as a guest on Pete Caliendo's renowned "Baseball Outside the Box" podcast. I was honored to be a guest on Pete's podcast. He…
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S8E1 - The Rear Leg: should it be on or off the ground during the rotational phase of the pitching motion?
Angel opens-up Season Eight, Episode One, with guest Head Coach Larry Owens from Bellarmine University. Larry had a question about the pitching motion…