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Justin Willard

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286 total appearances

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Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Like you're just getting a huge spike in that intensity by going right into those live VPs.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Can we incrementally dose intensity to build more robustness and allow the body to adapt

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

to those intensities over a longer period of time.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Yeah, I think it's, it's.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

what's the best way to put this?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Like for me, it's truly understanding what we're trying to get to and then what's the best approach to maximize what we want at the end of this, right?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Like that's the way I've kind of always looked at things of like, what's the goal?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

And then how do we actually think about this a better way to allow for the human body to adapt to the stresses that we're asking it to adapt to?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

And like, it also depends on the person.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Like there's a huge variability in first of all, mechanics and the stress that is imparted on, on the shoulder and the elbow and even the hands between athletes.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

And then there's also like, how, how do they recover?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

And just understanding those, how all these little pieces kind of go into it and make it individual for each guy is kind of the way I generally look at it.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

But starting with that goal of like, what do we want them to,

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

to be able to accomplish.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Yeah, honestly, it probably started with guys like Crochet or Bayo.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Again, you have these superpowers, and I think historically in baseball, we've really been able to... You saw it when I first got in in 2018 with the Twins.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

It was like, if you've got to carry fastball that has 20 VB, you're just going to rip that as much as possible.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

We're going to bang the crappy sinker.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

But now you're seeing, again, with the advent...

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

the advances of technology from a trajectory and the advanced reporting materials like hitters are just getting better at adapting to that single problem.