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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.
Power pitcher is a term in baseball for a pitcher who relies on pitch velocity at the expense of accuracy. Power pitchers usually record a high number of strikeouts , and statistics such as strikeouts per 9 innings pitched are common measures of power. [ 1 ]
PITCHf/x is a system created and maintained by Sportvision that tracks the speeds and trajectories of pitched baseballs.This system, which made its debut in the 2006 Major League Baseball (MLB) postseason, is installed in every MLB stadium. [1]
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.
2. Since 2008, average mph velocity in the major leagues has risen from 91.3 to 94.2 for four-seam fastballs, 82.8 to 84.6 for sliders, 75.7 to 79.5 for curveballs and 81.7 to 85.5 for changeups. During that period, fastball usage declined from 60% to 48%. By comparison, fastball velocity in Nippon Professional Baseball was 91.1 this year. 3.
MLB’s tracking system started reporting public data in 2015, and pitchers were almost instantaneously parlaying detailed information on velocity, spin rate, spin direction and other ...
Power–speed number or power/speed number (PSN) is a sabermetrics baseball statistic developed by baseball author and analyst Bill James which combines a player's home run and stolen base numbers into one number. [1] The formula is: = +. [1] (It is the harmonic mean of the two totals.)
Johnson, at 40 years, was the oldest pitcher in MLB history to throw a perfect game, surpassing Cy Young who was 37 when he threw his perfect game in 1904. [2] This was baseball's 17th perfect game, with David Cone's perfect game having been the 16th in 1999. [3]