West Virginia just built a pitching lab that changes everything. 👉 They invested over $5M into tech that can literally flag injury risk before a pitcher feels pain. 16 high-speed cameras + 3D motion capture. Force plates built into the mound. A full-time biomechanist dedicated to baseball. 🤯 Welcome... to the future of player development.show more

Don’t tell @nextlevelbb He might explode. Because he hates every school that invests in player development since he can’t.

@nextlevelbb He gets it, baseball guy no?

@nextlevelbb Very much a traditionalist, but outwardly expresses his opinion on how baseball technology doesn’t help with a player’s development, even if used right by the right people. Very Jeff Frye-ish. Lol

@nextlevelbb That’s fair though, I’m the same way. Too much technology is counterproductive. Still have to get on the mound or in the box and get the job done! There’s also the old school part of me that you need to grow through a little bit of soreness and pain!

@nextlevelbb 100%! But not cool to hate on other programs that invest in PD. Especially when you run a travel ball org. Just a bad look. Obviously a ton that goes into molding a solid baseball player!

You do realize that schools like Wake Forest, LSU, Vanderbilt, Oregon, Miss State, UVA, South Carolina, UNC, Texas, etc., have been utilizing state of the art technology pitching/hitting systems such as Trajekt, iPitch, NewtForce, Trackman, KinaTrax, Edotronics, etc., for a number of years. What WVU is using isn’t something that’s unique. Each program customizes the use of biomechanics w/ high speed cameras and 3D motion capture to collect real time data for to accelerate a player’s developmental process on the mound & at the plate.

I do! I’ve posted content on other spots doing this as well.

@justinoney30 It’s excellent 🙄✔️

@justinoney30 Sweet setup.

Thanks Ken Kendrick! The batting one developed JJ...btw.

Are the Mountaineers using it?

Lot of dudes coming out of there! The Light ain’t too bad itself ‼️

@WestVirginiaU should ask themselves this simple question. Can the knee joint bend sideways? They don’t need $5M to understand they are abusing their pitchers. They need to grow a set.

@WestVirginiaU Give me more detail?

Pitchers are forced to stride sideways from pitching mounds. I understand it’s West Virginia but it should be quite easy to look down at your knees and see they don’t bend sideways. It’s West Virginia so the solution may not be so obvious. If the Mountaineers had the balls to turn their pitchers feet 90° their pitchers would engage the hips/legs most powerful muscle; the Gluteus Maximus. If anyone in Mountaineer land believes i science, they believe more powerful muscles produce more force. @LittleLeague allows this @MLB allows this The yankee boys of @NFHS and @NCAA lead by the former governor of liberal Mass, @CharlieBakerMA prefer codifying abuse. So the Mountaineers will be good Trumpsters and await further instructions.

If they throw weighted balls this tech won’t matter.

I’m out on weighted balls. Do agree. There’s a specific way to use them, but need to be careful.

Awesome. Hopefully it turns my former HS student into a big leaguer.

I’m sure that’s the plan!

Prob predicts injury … and steals signs

Is that why they’re winning?

Good point

Nice, but they really should invest in their dental school.

This isn’t too far foul 😂

Same machine LeBron uses for load management

@BBSIV_ 🔥

Fuck this our football team sucks

@MitchVingle @c_rockett