Justin Willard

what's the best way to put this?

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?

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

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?

And like, it also depends on the person.

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.

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

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.

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

to be able to accomplish.

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

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.

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.

We're going to bang the crappy sinker.

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

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

So it goes back to, OK, cool, what are we going to do to get you back to your superpower instead of just solely relying on that superpower?

Um, so that's something I think the game of baseball woke up to this past year of, again, you look at crochet, like that fastball is a hundred miles per hour, but then when he starts working off the sinker, like good luck or Chapman as well, two fastball guy has the, uh, the splitter and the slider, but like those two fastballs, you can be sitting a hundred.

Now, which way is it going to go?

Yeah.