State of the art pitching lab at Wake Forest - LSU needs this program

I wish LSU would pump more money into things like this. We should be on the cutting edge.

Here is my post from the thread I mentioned this in, since this will be more visible and the article may not be accessible to everyone:

To piggy back on some of the things other programs are doing to separate themselves, there is a good article on Baseball America that talks about the pitching lab at Wake Forest that coach Tom Walter (former UNO coach) had installed. It's behind a paywall I think, but I will copy and paste some paragraphs:

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Walter first jumped on board with the explosion of baseball analytics in determining such factors as spin rate. Yet he realized there was more to it than simply deciphering raw pitching data.

Instead of seeking private alumni donations to add personnel, Walter and the university sought a partnership with Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. In addition to helping raise $300,000 that was pumped into the pitching lab, Wake Forest Baptist agreed to hire a team physician and a director of the pitching lab.

The foremost pitching labs in the country, such as Driveline in Washington and the American Sports Medicine Institute in Alabama, served as models for the Wake Forest lab and worked in a collaborative manner to help them.

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These are the people on staff there:

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Dr. Brian Waterman is an associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, where he specializes in cartilage restoration and shoulder/elbow care. When he was at Chicago’s Rush Medical Center he also was a team physician with the White Sox.

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Kristen Nicholson might be the key cog in the operation. She did her visitation for her doctorate at the University of Delaware, where she examined upper extremities, specifically scapular and shoulder blade mechanics.

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That information is then presented to Mark Seaver, Wake Forest’s assistant director of sports performance for baseball, who can recommend exercises that both strengthen pitchers’ bodies and prevent injuries. Seaver, who pitched four seasons in the Orioles and Athletics organizations, was twice felled by shoulder surgeries.

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One of a few success stories from the article:

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Staff ace Colin Peluse, a junior righthander from Middletown, Del., possessed the highest arm speed with the highest stress on his elbow and the lowest hip-shoulder separation of all the Wake Forest pitchers when the lab began operations. A simple adjustment in his hip mobility has him sporting the lowest stress on his elbow.

“His command is much better and he is able to get to the glove side of the plate better now that his hip mobility is better,” Walter said.

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This is the kind of stuff I've been sayi g about why the lsu program is falling behind and I get down voted by the simps every time.

Developing players has changed dramatically across all levels of the game. If you aren't keeping up you will get left in the dust.

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working with a pitcher to fix their mechanics and load before they even pitch, or get hurt. This seems like a no-brainer to me. LSU could afford the cost

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Woodward needs to make this happen. No doubt.

Few posters on here actually realize that LSU isn’t leading the way anymore in facilities, etc.

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This is the kind of stuff I've been sayi g about why the lsu program is falling behind

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I've been looking at the coaching staffs of some random schools around the country to see how ours stacks up from a numbers/positions standpoint.

UCLA has 8 people dedicated to video and data anaylitics.

I thought LSU used Driveline. My kid has for the last few years at home and his high school now uses it.

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the money saving options, has allowed many many others not just to pass us up, but to be far superior.

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Dudy Noble has all the player amenities—a new locker room, a players’ lounge, a team meeting room, a batting tunnel outfitted with HitTrax and a pitching lab outfitted with Rapsodo.

What do you mean by "used driveline"?

Driveline is not a product. Its a training facility. Do they send all of their hitters and pitchers to Seattle? Did they hire Kyle boddy and his boys to come to br and assess all of their hitters and pitchers ams create customized development programs for them?

wait ! there's an epidemic of pitcher injuries?