Throwing velocity is an important baseball performance variable for baseball pitchers, because greater throwing velocity results in less time for hitters to make a decision to swing. Throwing velocity is also an important baseball performance variable for position players, because greater throwing velocity results in decreased time for a runner to advance to the next base. This study compared t...

For athletic coaches, there are many methods to coach athletes. One method that may not be as common, or even thought of coaching, is silence. Silence when the does speak but thinking specific team, player, and competitor items. The purpose this study was interview consistently successful high school baseball coaches with an emphasis on their silence a coaching behavior. Five in southeastern Un...

CONTEXT Safety balls and faceguards are widely used in youth baseball, but their effectiveness in reducing injury is unknown. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association of the use of faceguards and safety balls and injuries in youth baseball. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Ecological study using a national database of compensated insurance claims maintained by Little League Baseball Incorpora...

BACKGROUND Empirical evidence has suggested a connection between youth pitch counts and subsequent elbow injury. For players within the Little League World Series (LLWS), detailed historical player data are available. Some of these players progress to both professional play and require an ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction (UCLR). PURPOSE To determine the percentage of LLWS pitchers who...

BACKGROUND The Major League Baseball schedule is longer and more intensive than minor and amateur leagues. As a result, major league pitchers endure a considerably higher cumulative workload throughout the season. Ligament, tendon, muscle, and bone tissues in young pitchers need time to adapt to the workload a major league pitcher must endure. To mitigate the risk of overuse injury, and allow t...

This study examines minor league baseball players’ future-oriented labor by interviewing 44 players and collecting data on 8,000 careers. Minor expectations of reaching Major League Baseball impacted how they evaluated their work in the present, leading them to tolerate unfair pay working conditions. We show that were moderately unrealistic, partly due managerial practices encouraging unrealist...

Forecasts for the outcome of sporting events are coveted by nearly everyone in the sporting world. In this paper, a number of machine learning algorithms for predicting the outcome of baseball games are explored, using both classification and regression approaches.