Ryan Fitzgerald

⚾️ Boston Red Sox organization 🐦 Former Creighton Bluejay 🐱Former Gary Railcat

[Ryan Fitzgerald @RyRyThisGuy]

@bradbrennan @BuschmanSchelby @CoachKeowen Demographics do play a role but demographics isn’t just age. In fact, there is a strong correlation between social media following and revenue. Which would mean the younger fans are contributing to the revenue. Assuming there’s a younger demographic on social media.

[Ryan Fitzgerald @RyRyThisGuy]

@bradbrennan @BuschmanSchelby @CoachKeowen How do you measure baseball dying or living? The only way I can think of is revenue and that increases astronomically every year. Until that declines I think the game is right where it should be

[Ryan Fitzgerald @RyRyThisGuy]

@bradbrennan @BuschmanSchelby @CoachKeowen So what style of play do you suggest is best specifically? Since were not going to use numbers, only opinions. Which is fine but then who’s opinions matter? Because everyone has an opinion. Who shall we listen to?

[Ryan Fitzgerald @RyRyThisGuy]

@bradbrennan @BuschmanSchelby @CoachKeowen I don’t understand your logic. You’re not stating facts. Quantify exciting. That’s your opinion. Hitters are not “swinging out of their ass” they are *trying* to match pitch plane and swing the bat as hard as they can on that plane and stay on plane as long as possible.

[Ryan Fitzgerald @RyRyThisGuy]

@TheReber007 @BuschmanSchelby @CoachKeowen Those were phenomenal pitchers, but that’s only 4 pitchers. I’m looking at the all of the pitchers. Not just the 4 best in the league. It takes more than 4 great pitchers to get hitters to change their philosophy. Every pitcher of every team throws 95. So that is a big change

[Ryan Fitzgerald @RyRyThisGuy]

@bradbrennan @BuschmanSchelby @CoachKeowen It’s the same. Pitchers got way better and this is what hitters have to do to be relevant. Diseases kept getting worse so medication and surgery had to get better. What am I missing?

[Ryan Fitzgerald @RyRyThisGuy]

@TheReber007 @BuschmanSchelby @CoachKeowen I don’t think you understand how hard hitting is. Do you know how much better pitchers have gotten? If it was physically possible to make as much contact as they did in 80s we would still play the strategy game. Contact is rare not because of hitters. It is because of pitching.

[Ryan Fitzgerald @RyRyThisGuy]

@ArmAction101 @CoachKeowen I’m not in the mlb, just the minors, but this drill is a lot better than the drills I was doing at that age.

[Ryan Fitzgerald @RyRyThisGuy]

Cleaning out my room and found an old book my parents got me when I was younger. “Don Mattingly’s Hitting is Simple”. Crazy that people paid actual money for this book. “Keep hands above barrel” but every picture has hitters doing the opposite. “Swing down on the ball like an ax”

[Rob Benjamin @rob_benjamin7]

The Movement/Swing Pattern creates the Data. The Data doesn't create it. The Data tells us how we're doing. Learn how to teach the Movement Implicitly and/or Explicitly. Ultimately the Environment and Informational Feedback will díctate the Movement

[Devin.DeYoung @DeyoungDevin]

Long day working in the BioMechanics Lab in Chicago with these guys using @BertecHQ forceplates, @KMOTION3D. Congrats to @ColinWillis16 on signing his contract in-house at @elite_baseball with the Boston @RedSox . This guy has done nothing but break through walls.

[Ryan Fitzgerald @RyRyThisGuy]

@Teacherman1986

[Ryan Fitzgerald @RyRyThisGuy]

@Teacherman1986 So there’s not much work for you to do? You just hop on board. Beside the point. I like your content and your hitting truths. Just don’t really like you. That is all.

[Ryan Fitzgerald @RyRyThisGuy]

@Teacherman1986 You tell that to your “chosen” clients as well?

[Ryan Fitzgerald @RyRyThisGuy]

@Teacherman1986 Teach me teacherman

[Ryan Fitzgerald @RyRyThisGuy]

@Teacherman1986 This has nothing to do with hitting. Your hitting “truth” can be whatever you want it to be. Like I said before, it’s good stuff. But how you treat people is sad. I expect better from a guy with your knowledge and platform.

[Ryan Fitzgerald @RyRyThisGuy]

@davidrios06 @MikeSlic I’m 25 and I wish I learned to a hit a ball in the air when I was 8. Every coach said “back elbow up, swing parallel to the ground, don’t try to hit it in the air” I don’t understand why baseball has taken this long to learn

[Ryan Fitzgerald @RyRyThisGuy]

@Evan3Longoria If the catcher caught it better and framed it, would you feel the same?