Trevor Bauer (トレバー・バウアー)

MLB All Star & Cy Young Award winner
I teach pitchers how to throw harder with less arm pain
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Which MLB Teams Develop Best?

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The Real Baseball Learning Curve

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How I’d Build Better MLB Players

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The Draft Mistake Teams Make

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MLB Drafts Too Many Players

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The Motivation Problem in Sports

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How To Face Trevor Bauer

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NIL Changed Everything

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The Most Stacked College Roster Ever

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Shane Bieber never looked like an ace. 91-93 mph, no electric stuff. But he won a Cy Young. Here's why that makes sense.

Most people think you need to throw hard or have nasty stuff to make it to the big leagues. That's not the only path.

The real question is: what elite tool do you have?

For Bieber, it was command. He never walks anybody. That's not a small thing — that's an elite weapon. Pair that with good pitch shapes and you have a real pitcher, even without the velocity.

The honest projection on him coming up was probably a 3 or 4 ERA guy. A solid mid-rotation starter. Nobody was calling him a future ace.

But then something happened. He added velocity. He added more pitch shapes. He developed. And when you stack elite command on top of improved stuff, you get a Cy Young winner.

The lesson here isn't "just throw hard" or "just have good command." It's that you need at least ONE elite tool to have a path. And the fastest path to the big leagues should run through whatever that tool is.

If your one elite tool is velocity, stop trying to develop four average pitches. Throw 100 and get there.

If your one elite tool is command, build around that. The shapes matter more when you can actually locate them.

Bieber is proof that you don't need to look the part. You need to have a real tool and know how to use it.

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Should I Coach College Baseball?

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Baseball Is Nothing Without Fans

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MESSI!!!!!!!!!

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Most pitchers destroy their next two weeks by trying to get something out of a bad day. Here's why that's backwards.

Some days your body just doesn't have it. Velocity is down, feel is off, everything is flat.

The instinct is to push through. Throw harder to chase something out of the session. Work on pitch shapes. Try to "fix" things.

That instinct is wrong.

When you throw at low intent, your pitches won't move the way they normally do. Then you panic about your feel. Then you start overgripping, overthinking, overworking. Now you've dug a recovery hole AND messed with your confidence.

Three problems created trying to solve one.

The most productive thing you can do on a day like this is almost nothing. A light, low-intent session that protects your arm and your head is worth more than grinding through a "productive" workout that leaves you wrecked for the next fourteen days.

Not getting something out of today sets you up to get something out of the next two weeks. Trying to get something out of today sets you up to get nothing out of the next two weeks.

My go-to tool for these days: set a velocity ceiling on a radar gun. Pick an easy speed and don't throw above it. Sounds simple. Most pitchers have never actually tried to throw less hard — it forces you to stay disciplined with your intent instead of drifting back into competition mode.

Rest is a skill. Knowing when to back off is part of the training.

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Vamos Mexico!

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Stop Throwing With Your Arm

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How To Throw Trevor Bauer's Splitter

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Baseball's New Rule?

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Would This Rule Work?

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Most pitchers aim at a spot. I aim at a spot based on how I know I'll miss it.

Every pitch has a miss pattern. Once you map it, you stop fighting it and start using it.

My cutter and gyro ball miss pretty evenly around the target. Not a lot of shape to the miss. So I just throw at the glove and trust it'll be close.

My sweeper is completely different. I almost always miss up arm side or down glove side. I almost never miss up glove side or down arm side. That's an elongated miss pattern with a clear direction.

So in an 0-2 count, my catcher sets the glove in the zone. I throw at it. If I'm on, the pitch starts at their front hip and they take it for a strike. If I yank it, it breaks off the plate and they chase it. Either way, I win.

My curveball misses up or down, almost never side to side. So my catcher sets the glove on the ground at his feet. If I miss up, it lands in the zone for a strike. If I bounce it, it's a chase pitch in the dirt.

I'm not trying to hit the perfect spot every time. I'm engineering outcomes from my actual misses.

That's the difference between guessing and having a system.