2028 RHP/SS Stephen Verdolini III (Central Bucks-West)
FB: 87-89 T90💥
SL: 79-82
CH: 78-79
Clean operation w/ repeatable mechanics. Short, 2-plane SL. FB has life out of his hand. RHP to follow this summer👍
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These ARMory guys are putting up NUMBERS 🔥
Through 36 innings this year Parker Messick has been a lockdown arm every time he touches the rubber.
Nick Riedel has not let his foot off the gas for the entire season at Newberry going 10-0 over 86.1 innings.
Aidan Knaak has cemented himself in the history books with 300 career K’s at Clemson.
Tate McKee has been on an absolute tear since arriving at Georgia Tech in the fall of 2023. Now he’s in the history books with 200 career strikeouts.
What makes Parker special is his consistency. Perfect example of sticking to a plan and executing it. Day in and day out this guy came ready to work. Stoked to see his hard work this offseason paying off. Only the beginning 🧱🧱🧱
Cleveland #Guardians LHP Parker Messick was tremendous tonight striking out five Dodgers batters over six scoreless innings of work without allowing a walk.
Line - 6.0(IP) 5H 0R 0ER 0BB 5SO
(76 Pitches 51 Strikes)
He topped out at 95.5 mph.
#GuardsBall
In 2014, I was speaking at a pitching coaches conference in Texas
The feature speaker was a track & field/rugby guy from The Netherlands named Frans Bosch.
Baseball crowd
Biomechanics nerds
Room full of coaches who make their living telling people how to move
He walks up, clicks to slide one, and opens with:
“The body shows very little interest in what the coach has to say.”
The room went silent
I literally leaned forward in my chair
By the time he was done, my world had tilted on its axis
I didn’t understand a lot of it
But I knew, deep down, “If he’s right… this changes everything.”
I was the next speaker
Topic: The anatomy of deceleration in pitching.
That’s like following Eddie Murphy with a knock‑knock joke
I gave my talk, quietly terrified that everything I was saying was garbage in light of what he’d just presented
Next morning, 8:00 a.m.
Drury Inn & Suites lobby
I’m building my gourmet continental breakfast: powdered eggs, waffle, bad coffee.
Conference restarts at 9
I see Bosch in the corner with fruit and yogurt
We make eye contact
I give the classic awkward coach nod
“Mr. Sullivan,” he says, motioning me over.
“I liked your talk.”
I sit down
We start talking motor learning and training at a level I didn’t know existed
He’s supposed to be on the way to the airport
His ride?
Trevor Bauer
Trevor is late
I don’t mind
We talk
And talk
Two hours go by like ten minutes
A few months later, his book “Strength and Coordination: An Integrated Approach” lands on my desk
I read it 6 times
Then I read every reference in the bibliography
I wasn’t just trying to learn the concepts
I wanted to know how he learned to think that way
I receive an invitation to Amsterdam to work with the Dutch National Program
We go even deeper
That trip led to the creation of our Annual Baseball Skill Acquisition Summit
It has been attended by hundreds of representatives from every MLB team
When he wrote “Anatomy of Agility,” Frans asked me to edit the English translation before it came out in the U.S.
He later wrote the foreword to my book “SAVAGE Revolution” and collaborated as I wrote “Integrated Anatomy of Pitching.”
That one delayed airport ride turned into:
A friendship
A new way of seeing movement
SAVAGE Training
The ARMory
And, ultimately, thousands of pitchers around the world training differently
All because Trevor Bauer was late to pick someone up
We call it hustle
Planning
Strategy
Networking
But underneath all of it, there’s this quiet, unpredictable force nudging things into place
It’s the missed flight, the awkward lobby breakfast, the “Hey, come sit with me” moment that changes your entire trajectory
You can’t manufacture it
But you can do this:
Show up
Stay curious
Sit in the front row
Say yes to the conversation
And be ready when your “Trevor is running late” moment shows up
Because from the outside it looks like an inconvenience
From the inside?
It’s the hinge your whole career swings on
Serendipity isn’t random luck
It’s what happens when preparation collides with one small, unexpected delay
It all happened because Trevor Bauer was late
Serendipity
Brought the JUICE 🔥
Check out Billy Eich (Kansas State) and Alex Sotiropoulos (Columbia) competing in a velo push day before they headed back to campus
Our Coalition 4 our new Return To Throw Manual 2.0 is up to 137 of the top Coaches, PT's & Trainers in the country!
Today's featured member:
Will Morris, Dir. of Pitching Development, Ohio State U.
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Cleveland #Guardians 19yr old RHP prospect Chase Mobley putting in work training at Florida Baseball ARMory.
Current Guardians LHP's Parker Messick and Logan Allen both train at the same facility with Mobley.
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Right back to work this week 💪
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Struggling with off-speed pitches?
“Pulling down the lampshade” won’t help.
What will is becoming a more efficient mover. Being able to train around universal movement attractors.
Hinge, Hip lock, close the front door. Become a better mover, not a better manipulator.
🧵 The best off-speed pitches, specifically CB/SL, don’t come from manipulation of the arm and hand but from rotation of the trunk.
The arm unwinds in an Iso-elastic state resulting from an optimal combo of flexion and rotation. So train elite rotation, not manipulation.
Verbal cues can:
•Disrupt kinematic sequencing of the body.
•Prohibit efficient transfer of energy up the chain and ultimately into the arm.
These inefficient movements can then lead to the need for manipulation. Remember, the movement creates the data.