DVS UNIVERSITY IS LIVE.
DVS University is now live. Pitching injuries have resulted in MLB teams paying over $2.7 Billion dollars to pitchers while on the Injured List from 2015 – 2021. While pitching injuries have always been a part of baseball, the rate at which a pitcher suffers a major throwing injury is increasing at an alarming rate. As a pitcher, how do you know if you are more or less at risk of a throwing injury? At DVS Baseball, we have the answers, which is the defining difference in why and how we make pitchers better.
Plan Your Off-Season Throwing Program for Game Success
When your current pitching season is over, it's time to recover, rebuild, and refocus in the off-season to prepare for the next season. But, at what point do you put down the baseball and not worry about having to throw hard or performing in a game? And, how do we best prepare ourselves to be successful next season?
Taylor North's run was built on pitching, with a big assist from a former first-round pick
Taylor North's run to the state's second Little League World Series championship wasn't built on orange slices and ice cream. It was built on pitching — more accurately, pitching depth.
Are You Getting The Most From Your Arm Care Bands?
Thousands of pitchers blindly follow arm care programs that incorporate resistance bands and weighted balls each year in the hope of helping their throwing arm recover, strengthen, and prepare to throw a baseball. Unfortunately, although the purpose of arm care programs is primarily understood, the validity and science of how the arm care bands help are not. So, if you are currently using arm care bands as part of your program, how do you know if they are helping?
DVS Baseball Announces Mitch Aker as DVS Trainer
DVS Baseball is excited to announce the addition of Mitch Aker to the our team. Mitch will serve as a DVS Trainer at our Madison Heights location and implement DVS methodology and technology into the local community to help make pitchers better. In addition, Mitch will assist with developing USPBL pitchers throughout the 2022 season.
What’s Next for Kumar Rocker?
Unfortunately for Kumar Rocker, the "check engine light" for his throwing arm was checked when the Mets looked underneath the hood post-draft and saw enough damage not to offer the pre-draft deal of $6 million. Furthermore, because Kumar opted out of a pre-draft MRI, the Mets didn't have to extend any offer, leaving him unsignable amongst all other MLB Teams. The fallout leaves Kumar in a precarious situation and begs the question, "What's next for Kumar?”.
Just How Rare Are Quality Starting Pitchers? A Thirty-Five Year Look at Baseball’s Dying Breed
49.5% of Major League Baseball pitchers have spent time on the injured list in the 2021 season. Check out the 35 year analysis on the dying breed of starting pitchers in Major League Baseball.
Nolan Clenney Signs with New York Mets
Every year in the USPBL, a small group of pitchers fully commit themselves to improve their skill set to advance to affiliated baseball; Nolan was one of those pitchers in 2019. Nolan's in-game performance from 2019 to 2020 to 2021 is a remarkable example of how to enhance your value as a pitcher to get to the next level and, in Nolan's case, sign with the New York Mets.
Ranking the Top 50 2021 MLB Draft Prospects by DVS Score
Injuries are on the rise among professional pitchers. According to Spotrac data, in the 2017 season, 88 pitchers landed on the 60-day DL. In 2018, that number was 101 pitchers. In 2019, it rose to 118. As contracts cost teams more and more, organizations want to get the most production they can out of healthy players. Analyzing the 2021 Top 50 draft eligible pitchers, there is important data to consider regarding longevity in the 2021 MLB Draft.
Ranking the 2021 College World Series Pitchers by DVS Score
The ranking of pitchers in the 2021 College World Series by DVS Score (pitching mechanics) revealed 44% of pitchers are at high risk of a throwing injury while 16% of pitchers are at low risk. The results are similar to our MLB injury statistics and further illustrate that most pitchers from amateur baseball to professional baseball are at high risk and don't even know it.
Effective Training: A Change in Mindset
Are you working yourself to exhaustion between weightlifting, agility training, and intense throwing sessions in order to create more velocity on your fastball? At DVS Baseball we understand, and we have a better solution for you. A simple change in mindset and approach will allow you to understand what creates efficiency and optimal function of your body.
Arm Pain: It Doesn't Have to be Part of the Game
This is the story of pitcher Brendan Davis and how his mechanical transformation alleviated his arm pain and allowed for most productive season to date.
Lessons From a Covid Baseball Season
In 2020, the Covid-19 Pandemic didn't shut down the youth baseball season; it simply condensed the entirety of a regular season into a few months. Here in Michigan, we saw a spike in sore arms, throwing shutdowns, injuries to pitchers throughout travel organizations, and the youngest UCL injury I have personally seen. To break down why this spike happened, you can look at this pandemic in compounding layers.
DVS Bullpen 3.0 Featuring Workload Management for Pitchers
One of the newest features of the DVS Bullpen 3.0 is safely and effectively manage a pitcher's workload. DVS Bullpen 3.0 allows users to determine when, how much, how far, and at what intensity your pitchers should be throwing. The workload management logic is built off five years of tracking health, recovery, and performance across professional pitchers.
DVS Baseball Expands into Canada, The Yardhouse Announced as New Development Center
DVS Baseball is excited to announce the latest development center The Yardhouse, located in Kelowna, British Columbia. The Yardhouse marks the first international baseball facility that will implement DVS Baseball’s M.V.P. Program to its clients.
The Two Missing Ingredients In Your Pitching Development Program
The vast majority of all pitching development programs currently being offered lack two essential ingredients; proper sequencing and proper recovery. The reason for this has nothing to do with the acknowledgment that these two ingredients are important but more so with the lack of professionals to communicate the complexities of sequencing and recovery. Luckily, I had the fortunate ability to sit down and interview one of the greatest minds and world leaders in understanding the role sequencing and function play on the human body, Dr. Gary Gray.
DVS Baseball Announces D-BAT Mokena as New Development Center
DVS Baseball is excited to announce our latest development center D-BAT Mokena, located in Mokena, Illinois, and owned and operated by Joseph Mattice and Gary Levato.