Roger Sweedyk

[Tim Brando @TimBrando]

They didn’t call him “The Professor” for nothing. ⚾️💪

[Roger Sweedyk @rrsweed]

GOAT

[MLB @MLB]

Happy birthday to Miggy!

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[Kalamazoo College Baseball @kzoobaseball]

In today’s game against Elmhurst, Ryar Rinehart became the first Hornet in program history to eclipse 200 RBIs, adding yet another impressive milestone to his legacy. 🐝⚾️

#d3baseball

[Kalamazoo College Baseball @kzoobaseball]

The MIAA King! 👑

Ryar Rinehart mashed 2 homeruns in the Hornets win today over Elmhurst to take the crown as the MIAA career homerun leader with a total of 38.

#d3baseball | #RollNets

[Just Baseball @JustBB_Media]

Paul Skenes the quarterback warming up with Andy Pettitte as the relay man 🔥

[Sean Salisbury @SeanUnfiltered]

Parents and high school athletes, here is your reality! [email protected] @nsrnow

[Baseball Quotes @BaseballQuotes1]

Every day at 7PM, taps is played over the loudspeakers at Dallas National Cemetery, just beyond the outfield wall at DBU

During every gameday at 7, they pause to honor the fallen troops buried just beyond the wall

One of the best traditions in sports

[Enezator @Enezator]

A toddler walks the line searching for his dad in the crowd… What happens seconds later leaves everyone in tears. 🇺🇸😭

[Matt Antonelli @MattAAntonelli]

Behind the scenes look at one of our infield warmups

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Shannon Sharpe asks Deion Sanders what’s the hardest thing to do: play football, play baseball, or coaching.

Deion Sanders, who played 9 seasons in MLB while also having a Hall of Fame NFL career: “Hitting that baseball.”

Love or hate him, he knows what he’s talking about

[Coach Swit @CoachSwit]

When you get to varsity baseball, versatility matters. Play multiple positions. Help the team in different ways. The more value you bring, the better your chances of playing time. Telling a coach “I can’t play there” doesn’t work.

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

All ballplayers need to hear this.

[Brian Hucks @bhucks17]

Really good team offensive drill to open practice. Takes 8 min

Plate - safety squeeze
1B - momentum steal breaks
2B - vault syeal breaks
3B - down angle reads

[Tracy Smith @TracyJSmith13]

Simple “Tells” off of a LHP.

#baseball #practice #michigan #coaching #training

[Fryedaddy/Frito @shegone03]

Former @MLB player John Vander Wal nailed it on his @facebook post!
#shegone

The game is in an awful state.

I scouted professionally for two organizations over a ten-year period, and a lot of what we’re seeing today is being misunderstood or flat-out misrepresented.

First, velocity. Pitchers are not throwing significantly harder across the board. The perceived jump in velocity is primarily the result of technology and measurement changes — specifically where the device picks the baseball up out of the hand. As radar and tracking systems moved closer and closer to release, the readings increased. The arm didn’t change — the measurement did.

Now hitting.

We’ve reached a point where “gurus” who never played the game at a high level are applying golf swing principles to baseball, largely because golf embraced analytics to identify the most efficient swing paths. The problem is that a baseball bat is not a golf club.

In golf, you dump the club to get it on plane.
In baseball, you cannot lose the barrel on the back side and still stay on plane consistently.

Yet the tech community began preaching backside barrel dump as the answer. Front offices filled with non-baseball “propeller head” GMs bought into the presentations, and this philosophy was pushed aggressively through the minor leagues. I saw this coming as early as 2014.

The result?
Hitters now dump the barrel in an attempt to get on plane, but they:
• Struggle to stay inside the baseball
• Lose adjustability
• Operate with slower effective bat speed

On the pitching side, it’s no better.

Pitchers are taught max effort on every pitch. Starters rarely exceed 90 pitches or five innings, work almost exclusively to either arm side or glove side, and live in deep counts. Relievers are almost universally max effort, arm-side only.

The consequence is obvious:
• Poor command
• Inconsistent control
• Little ability to sequence or adjust

Despite all the technology, pitching command and overall feel are as bad as I’ve ever seen at the big-league level.

More data didn’t make the game smarter.
It just made it louder — and in many cases, worse.

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@notgaetti @BobFile @twuench @billdubs @iamrags @SliderDominate @slider_sinker @CRAIG_LAPINER @hittingguru7 @BLocsports @TheRealJHair @WillClark22 @DMEASrecruiting @GDBJr5 @mikepiazza31 @JLucroy20

[Jim Shapiro @jimshapiro]

Anyone who discourages an athlete from playing multiple sports does not have that athletes best interests in mind.

End of story.

[Guitar Gods Unleashed @gguworld]

Ted Nugent steps outside in Austin and rips the Star-Spangled Banner, just because he felt like it.

Full-volume patriot shred mode activated.

[Roger Sweedyk @rrsweed]

@NFL_DovKleiman Steve Owens

[Roger Sweedyk @rrsweed]

@elonmuskTN 11

[Roger Sweedyk @rrsweed]

Sick!

[MLB @MLB]

The Phillies and Twins will head to the cornfields of Iowa next year 🌽

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