Game 41: Twins at Guardians
HERNDON, VA - JUNE 11: James Madison High School pitcher Brady Myers, 16, of Vienna, Va. , gets instruction on how to hold a baseball before throwing a pitch during a training session at MVP Baseball School on June 11, 2025 in Herndon, Va. As high school and college baseball players try to get their pitches faster and faster, it's doing major damage to their arms.
Pitching coaches are working with these young athletes to correct their pitches and keep them from long-term injuries. (Photo by Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images) First Chuck: 12:40 PM CDT (new anthem each week! ) The Tube: Twins.
TV The Dial: Treasure Island Baseball Network Spies ‘R Us: Covering The Corner If everything has gone to plan, I will have arrived back in Minneapolis last night from my Washington, D. C. jaunt.
I’m sure I’ll have some pics/stories in a later post, but for today: a book club recommendation. Unhittable by Rob Friedman. Any baseball fan plugged into the National Pastime in the current age gets a sense that the pitchers are way ahead of the hitters.
Batting average is down, contact is down, and strikeouts are up. In Unhittable, Friedman (of PitchingNinja fame) provides some great context for why/how this came to be and what exactly pitchers are doing to refine their movements and arsenals so perfectly. There are basically two trains of thought that run through Unhittable: First is Friedman’s in-depth explanation of the various technological and analytical tools that pitchers currently use to maximize velocity, perfect their delivery, sequence their pitches, and all the while try to keep their golden appendages healthy.