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Justin Willard

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402 total appearances

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

I think when you like, so it started really early on with the twins of understanding like, okay, we can do some pretty cool stuff with a baseball, but talking to hitters, right?

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

Like if you can cool, you can present them different profiles of pitches and different movement solutions and all these things.

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

But if you can also close down that decision window that they have by throwing things harder, it's just going to make their life a living hell.

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

So that's kind of where it all started.

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

And then

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

cool.

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

I think it was an area of baseball and driveline and tread and all these other organizations that are external to professional baseball have done a great job of pushing that forward.

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

But within baseball, it was definitely an area that teams can still continue to maximize.

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

Are we focusing on velocity development in the right manner at the right time to push better pitchers?

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

Yeah, I think it's reassessing kind of how we've always done things in baseball, right?

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

Like even from something as simple as a build up for a season, right?

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

Are there better opportunities to build more robust throwers and more robust ligaments and more robust musculature around these small joints to maximize injury prevention?

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

So that's the way we approached it, starting with the twins and approached it with the Red Sox.

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

And then now we'll obviously have some discussions with the Mets on how we can do this better.

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

But historically it's been like, oh, you do this like big volume ramp up and then you get to spring training and you start doing live VPs.

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

And it's like, no, no, no.

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.