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Velocity training is the rage in baseball from the youth levels up through the majors. Players go through specialized programs — often using series of progressively weighted baseballs — in the hopes of speeding up their bodies and arms, pushing them to the limits of what might be possible for their age and ability.
The minimum pitcher IL was restored to 15 days in 2022 after dropping to 10 for the previous five years. Factors in injuries may include use of weighted balls in training, increased intensity of bullpen sessions, a possible decline in cardiovascular and endurance training, and workload management that incentivizes harder effort over shorter spans.
Kyle Boddy (born 1983) [1] is an American baseball pitching trainer and consultant. He is the founder and owner of the baseball performance training system Driveline Baseball, which uses a sabermetric approach to increase pitching velocity and improve conditioning.
Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Nick Lodolo (40) delivers a pitch in the bullpen during spring training workouts, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, at the team’s spring training facility in Goodyear, Ariz.
He lost 17 games and allowed an MLB-worst 130 runs in 177 ⅔ innings. Additionally, he surrendered 39 home runs. It was the most homers allowed in his major league career.
Twenty years ago, Adam Wainwright reported to Cardinals spring training and threw a bullpen to Yadier Molina for the first time, and now they are the gold standard of baseball batteries.
Giancarlo Stanton held the MLB record for highest exit velocity at 122.2 miles per hour (196.7 km/h) from 2015 to 2022. In baseball statistics, exit velocity (EV) is the estimated speed at which a batted ball is travelling as it is coming off the player's bat.
Since the mid-2000s, MLB has observed a significant increase in fastball velocity among pitchers. In 2008, the average four-seam fastball velocity in the MLB was below 92 mph. This figure has climbed steadily, surpassing 93 mph by 2015, and exceeding 94 mph by 2023.