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http://www.drivelinemechanics.com/ - An Unconventional Look at Baseball Scouting
CHONE's 2010 hitter projections are here!
It's a wonderful time to be baseball nerd.
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Chone Figgins
Training-Related Nonsense
My friend Cameron who runs SFB Fitness made an excellent post about "Nonsense" when it comes to personal training and supplements. Definitely worth a read.
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We all know Bryce Harper's name, and the hype machine is cranked up to full blast.
In a Sports Illustrated feature story on Harper, Tom Verducci wrote, "Still only 16, Harper stands 6'3", weighs 205 pounds, has faster bat speed than Mark McGwire in his prime and runs so fast that he scored on ...
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Sports Illustrated
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by Jim Prisching - AP
Rich Harden sleeps eight hours a night; I guess he's pretty normal in that respect. (AP Photo/Jim Prisching)
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Rich Harden
I often get this question: Should youth athletes get into a strength training program? The answer: YES!
Youth weightlifting - if properly designed - is perfectly safe and produces solid results. I often hear the tired myth of " Weight lifting too early can stunt growth." Not a single ...
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While I assume these types of posts get repetitive over time, I feel obligated to at least inform my audience why I haven't been posting much other than the stock "I'm busy" or "I am working with my coaching/training site." Frankly, neither of those excuses are good enough, so I wanted to clear ...
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drivelinemechanics.com - 15 days ago
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I put off posting this longer than I
should have, as I think on Fridays only 9
of my 23 regular readers come around, but I have a transaction to report, that might be even more thrilling than the Mark Teahen -for- Chris Getz -and- Josh Fields - ...
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Transaction Report: Me
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Royals Review
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drivelinemechanics.com - 15 days ago
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More photos » by Kathy Willens - AP
Tampa Bay Ray' Akinori Iwamura watches his second-inning double
off New York Yankees' A.J. Burnett in their baseball game ...
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Ruining the World Series, Just Like A-Rod and Boras: ...
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by Eric Risberg - AP
San Francisco Giants' new infielder Freddy Sanchez, right, answers questions regarding the Giants' research into a time machine that will take him back 4 years as manager ...
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San Francisco Giants
Freddy Sanchez
Driveline Baseball - My Coaching/Training Site
I've finally launched my training/coaching site, available at drivelinebaseball.com. All the static content is finally included along with a copied article from this site (the supplements post).
On the "About" page, you can see a sample ...
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Eric Cressey runs Cressey Performance in Hudson, MA. At his facility, he trains a lot of professional and amateur baseball players with the help of a few experts. I've adopted a lot of his work in my training regimen, and highly recommend it to everyone interested in training baseball athletes. ...
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by Kathy Willens - AP
Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Chase Utley, right, arrives at Penn Station with his wife, Jen. He's leading off up the escalator, so I don't see why he can't lead off ...
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Reactionary idiot writes something reactionary.
I expect DF to prepare a full breakdown.
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drivelinemechanics.com - 25 days ago
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Jeter: I'm hitting WHERE at a baseball game? Girardi:
(stares silently at a baseball game) A-Rod: (smugly) We're playing ...
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World Series Batting Order Optimizer: New York Yankees
drivelinemechanics.com - 24 days ago
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Watching Kapler is entirely captivating yet, at times,
maddening. He plays the outfield and runs the bases
like a spider on LSD – which is to say he appears to have eight legs and lacks basic control of each. R.J. Anderson . WS-related ...
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Watching Kapler is entirely captivating yet, at times, ...
"A-Rod is definitely a true Yankee now," said Greg Camello, 26, of Queens. "When he’s in a clutch situation now, he feels confident and raises his game to the next level. I think Derek Jeter is starting to rub off on him. Or maybe Kate Hudson. It definitely has nothing to do with the fact ...

