Ty Downs 🔱

Baseball dad, special needs dad, lift weights, travel, watch baseball, digital agency owner.

[Matt Gochis @gochee21]

Dominate big time 6a elimination game playoff performance form Sophomore LHP Boston. Did a great job trusting his defense and getting weak contact. Made big pitches when he needed to execute.

56% Early and 84% E+A.

Must follow name for summer and next year.

[Ty Downs 🔱 @ty_downs]

Not surprised. Ryders always been a stud. Glad to see him get his chance to shine on the big stage. @RyderHuntsman24

[KSL Sports Rewind @KSLSportsRewind]

We've been covering baseball in this state for nearly 20 years and we have seen a lot of amazing pitchers in that time.

We may have just witnessed the best performance by a pitcher we have ever seen!

Ryder Huntsman of Pleasant Grove was DOMINANT from the bump today, throwing 6 perfect innings with 15 of the 18 outs coming via strikeouts!

@kslsports @TABBank @bpreece24 @GroveVikings @DarrinHenry @tobin_baseball3 @KeatonNordick @daveystaffieri @RyderHuntsman24 @ConnorYbarra

[Dale A Rex @DaleARex]

Clutch!!! @Rex1James

[Ty Downs 🔱 @ty_downs]

Great game @Porterlarsen41 !! 👊🏻

[Ty Downs 🔱 @ty_downs]

@JonathanHatch3 @bostonhatch28 Thanks for the kind words. Rocky loves Boston and admires him in many ways. Glad they've been able to make this connection.

[Dale A Rex @DaleARex]

Probably the best uncommitted Junior in the country. 2 way Shortstop. Dominating at the plate in one of the best pitching Regions in the history of 6A Utah Baseball. And he’s as good off the field as he is on the field. A true hidden gem. Insanely athletic! Leading 6A in HR’s,

[Ty Downs 🔱 @ty_downs]

100%. Seems like this old school approach is slowly dying out but it can't die out fast enough.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The Kelce brothers accidentally explained one of the longest-running training mistakes in professional sports in under 30 seconds.

A pitcher's delivery takes 1.5 seconds. The rest period before the next pitch is roughly 20 seconds. A starter who throws 100 pitches in a game produces somewhere between 2 and 3 minutes of total physical exertion across a 3-hour window. The work-to-rest ratio is approximately 1:20.

That ratio maps almost perfectly to the ATP-CP energy system, the anaerobic pathway that powers movements lasting under 10 seconds. Sprinting. Jumping. Swinging a bat. Throwing a 97 mph fastball. Every meaningful action in baseball lives in this system.

Distance running trains the opposite system. Aerobic metabolism. Slow-twitch muscle fibers. Type I fibers that are smaller, produce less force, and prioritize fatigue resistance over power output. Elite sprinters carry 60-80% fast-twitch fibers. Elite endurance athletes carry 60-95% slow-twitch. A 2008 study on collegiate baseball players found that combining endurance training with power training produced measurable drops in power output.

You are literally remodeling the engine in the wrong direction. Training the aerobic system when every sport-specific action runs on anaerobic fuel.

The tradition started decades ago because games last 3 hours and coaches confused game duration with physical demand. A game lasting 3 hours does not mean the athlete is exerting for 3 hours. A pitcher standing on the mound between pitches is recovering, not working. The correct training analog is a sprinter who runs 100 meters, walks back, and goes again.

Driveline Baseball, Eric Cressey, and every major sports science program has been publishing this data for over a decade. Strength coaches at the MLB level largely moved to sprint-based and med ball protocols years ago. But the foul-pole-to-foul-pole jog still persists at the high school and college level because the coaches who played in the 90s trained that way and never updated.

The Kelces just explained it to 3 million people faster than any journal ever could.

[Ty Downs 🔱 @ty_downs]

@velouniversity Interesting. Would love to see it repeated and tracked over the long term.

[Bryce Mounteer @mounteerbryce]

1/3 today at the plate with a single. Took the W against Cedar Valley 6-1. Looking to bounce back better on friday!

[Prep Baseball Utah @PrepBaseballUT]

‘27 OF Connor Ybarra (Pleasant Grove)

Athletic, toolsy player with an RBI triple to deep LF in the early goings of a big matchup. Confident in the box and swings with intent.

@ConnorYbarra
@PGVIKINGSBB

#BeSeen // @CoachBerg801

[Ty Downs 🔱 @ty_downs]

100%. Never underestimate the competitiveness of a dawg who wants it more.

[Dr. Tyler Winfield @Velo_doc]

Convo I had awhile back about a player

“His metrics other than his changeup are avg for this level I don’t think he’ll compete much”

Me-“How do you know if you never let him out there?”

“Our guy is saying that I’m just relaying”

Fast forward - same guy is their best guy outta the bullpen by a wide margin and his changeup has a .090 BAA with 31 whiffs, 8 GIDP

Analytics help paint a picture but says nothing about a guys moxie, toughness, or competitiveness

[Micah Beutell @Micah_CBC]

This place is beautiful.

Go ahead and add @utahbaseball to your ballpark bucket list.

[Glen W Spencer @SLCCCoachG]

#BruCru

[Prep Baseball Utah @PrepBaseballUT]

‘27 RHP Pratt Morley (Spanish Fork)

3 IP | 4 K | 1 BB | 1 H | 0 R

Elite arm talent on display throughout this matchup from both sides, with Pratt standing out amongst them. FB worked 90-92 with late life and sink, settled around 88-90 with a 75-77 sweeper. The final pitch was 91 and he seemed to just be getting stronger, big year coming from the @BYUBaseball commit

@Pratt_morley013

@coachberg801 // @ShooterHunt

[Prep Baseball Utah @PrepBaseballUT]

Riverton vs Layton to end Day 1 under the lights. Rocky came out with electric stuff sitting 86-89 T90 in the first inning, dominating with the FB and has 4 K’s through 2. High energy game and competitive atmosphere.

Rocky Downs (@RockyDowns17)
2026 LHP
Riverton HS
SLCC Commit @slccbaseball

#BeSeen

[Ty Downs 🔱 @ty_downs]

@joshgessner So you think Andres Munoz would throw 103-105 instead of 100 if he wasn't falling off the mound? Do you feel this is an absolute or pitcher dependent? Would Randy Johnson have thrown even harder by doing this?

[Prep Baseball Utah @PrepBaseballUT]

🚨 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐓 🚨

'26 Rocky Downs has announced his commitment to Salt Lake CC ‼️. #beseen

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞 ➡️: https://t.co/QZMl5DI0S1
𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐁𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 ➡️: https://t.co/OxTlr2D3XI

@RockyDowns17 // @slccbaseball

[SLCC BASEBALL @slccbaseball]

#BruCru Loading…

[Dan Cevette @DanCevette]

You don’t rise up in the spring - you reveal who you became in the dark months nobody saw.

The off-season is where confidence is built, toughness is earned, and roles are won.

Most talk about wanting it… few are working for it right now.

[Ty Downs 🔱 @ty_downs]

@StanceDoctor Agreed. My buddy @hitperformlab has been teaching downhill shoulders for years.