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Saulsbray, ol Bery s Houston.Okay, let's do this. Sean Salisbury
to usc truth, longtime friend,Shawn Salisbury, Brian Lima, go Lobos.
This is the Sean Salsbury Show orAstros Baseball from ber Valdez getting his
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elbow evaluated. He's got elbow SorenisYukon winning the national title in men's basketball.
All right, a lot of pictureinjuries, uh so far in the
last year and then obviously this year. Let me just go through some names.
I said it earlier in the show, but I'll do it again.
So just here, in the lastforty eight hours, you've had Uri Perez,
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Shane Bieber, and Spencer Strider allgo down with elbow injuries. Ury
Perez and Shane Bieber are both gonnahave Tommy John surgery. Spencer Strider saw
some damage in his UCL. He'sobviously one of the best young pitchers in
baseball. He won the Mayor Leaguecy young Winny, excuse me, National
League. Yep. So you've gotthem here. Let me go through these
other ones. Obviously, Shohio Tanirecovering from elbow reconstructuring a reconstruction. You
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got Jacob de Grom, Sandy Alcintara, Robbie Ray, Shane McClanahan, Walker
Bueler, Lucas Gielido, Felix Bautista, Dustin May, Andrew Paynter, Shane
Boz, Kumar Rocker, and obviouslyGarrett Cole started the season on the il
because he has an elbow issue.Well, Justin Verlander, after he made
his rehab, started a couple ofdays ago in Sugarland for the Triple A
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team, he was asked about theelbow issues in Major League Baseball, and
again, you know, there's Ithink it's a lot more in depth than
just the pitch clock. I dothink the pitch clock has an issue,
But this is what Justin Verlander hadto say. I don't know, man,
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it's tough. I think the gamehas changed a lot. Uh,
you know, I I think theI thing be easiest to hear them playing
the pitch clock. You know.I think in reality, you put everything
together and everything has a little bitto a little bit of influence, you
know. I think the biggest thingis that the style of pitching has changed
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so much. You know, everybody'sthrowing as hard as they possibly can and
spinning the ball as hard as theypossibly can, and you know, it's
hard to deny those results obviously,how can you it's it's it's it's a
double edged sword. How can youtell somebody to go out there and not
do that when they're capable of throwingone hundred and and you know this,
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this this young guy comes up andthrows a pitch ninety five and gives up
a big homer, and everybody's like, what the hell man, So something
needs to change. I don't haveall the answers. I know pitching,
you know, and I've been Idon't want to be a dead horse here.
It is what it is. Ithink the data is out there at
this point. But when the ballsstarted to change back in twenty sixteen and
they started flying out a bit morefrequently, I know myself personally, that
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started changing how I had to approachto pitching. You have to start swinging.
You have to start approaching the batteras I want swing and miss I
can't have him put the ball inplay where the old adage, pitch down,
pitch away from the guy, hityour spot, get a week,
you know, get weak contact earlyin a count, and then you can
kind of go up and that kindof went out the window when when everybody
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started being able to leave the yard, especially opposite field, you know,
and and look like I said,I'm not here to I've said my piece
on that before in the past,and it is what it is. As
long as we're all out here competingon an even playing field, that's what
I care about. And we allhave the same baseball in our hands.
So that's that. But I dothink that you throw that in the mix.
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So that's justin erliner his audio.I mean, it goes on for
another two and a half minutes,great, and just the first minute and
a half is pretty good, youknow what's interesting? And it gets down
Now there's a lot of I don'tproclaim to know all the reasons guys get
hurt, but he just named ahandful of them. And you're right,
you throw a hundred, you're gonnatell a guy to ramp it down to
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ninety four. No, especially ifyou have if you've had success to one
hundred. Yet here's the key forme, Brian, is how did we
get to throw in a hundred?Yeah? What steps did you take to
get to be able to ramp itup? Is it lower body explosion?
Which takes some stress off the arm, which I'm big on. Listen,
the big muscles in the legs area lot bigger than the muscles in the
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arms and the shoulder. They justare. So you've got to you have
got to engage in hitting, pitching, the lower half and all those We're
not going to go. We don'thave time for. It takes hours to
teach going through how to generate theexplosiveness and velocity in baseball, velocity in
football without losing the accuracy you want. Velocity goes up, sometimes accuracy goes
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down. But how sometime I'm notsaying all the time. Some guys can
throw a hun Randy Johnson what eleventwelve strikeouts to one walk. But remember
when Randy left USC, Randy wehit the top of the screen with the
fastball, and he was taught wellcommanded, it worked on it still was
able to throw a hundred and getthrough a career. Sometimes you got to
be a little lucky too. ButI can tell you this, and all
the stuff that Verlander's talking about iswe should all listen to. And it
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starts at a young age. Buthow you get to that velocity and to
be able to ramp it up.And some guys are just blessed with great
leverage and understand the mechanics of itand are taught well, whether it's at
home or a young a guy whogets him young as a coach. But
I can tell you this, there'sa big difference. We now have more
throwers than we do pictures, andthere is a difference. Dude, It's
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just like hitting more we have guys. Listen the precise hitting we got,
guys, what are we teaching Brian? You know this elevation? Yep.
Want the ball out of the ballpark? And Verlander mentioned it, guys,
going on with the baseball. Youpitch a guy away, try to get
weak contact in the ball lands inthe seats opposite field. So how you're
getting to it as a young playerto generate that kind of velocity. But
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in the process, are we teachingkids in all our sports to be a
quarterback not a thrower, to bea pitcher not a thrower. And there
is a difference, a major difference. And if you're fortunate that you're a
pitcher who can pump at it oneto oh one, you're in rare.
You're the outlier. We got tostick you over here and then in the
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process of being able to pitch fifteenor twenty years and not be hurt eighteen
year career. Okay, the BobGibson's don't exist where they can keep the
ball down, And I mean thatonce in a while. Those guys are
few and few and far between.We have more throwers in high school,
you see it, just like Ido more throwers than we do pitchers,
and there is a difference. Soone thing you mentioned is how did we
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get here to one hundred mile anhour? Right? Give me the mechanics
that got us there. These kidsnowadays have every every opportunity and everything right
there at their disposal to get bigger, faster, stronger early on in their
careers. And I preached to themin a lot of ways. Yeah,
and it's preached early. You gowatch an eleven U and I know you're
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not going to, but if youwatch an eleven U, and I had
to be. I was introduced tothis club baseball, of course I am.
You go watch an eleven or twelveU select baseball tournament and you see
some of these top teams they arepitching from fifty four feet away, and
you have kids that are throwing eightyone miles an hour from fifty four feet
away, which is equivalent of themid nineties, and from the one hundred
pet and six inches. Yeah,and now my team is fourteen U and
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the twenty twenty eight class is loaded. There is talent all across this country.
I'm telling you, when this twentytwenty eight class gets the juniors and
seniors, there are going to betons of draft picks in this class.
There are from this state. Yes, yeah, there are kids right now
at fourteen years old that are sittingbetween eighty seven and eighty nine miles an
hour. As a fourteen year old, you think about that, How can
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a fourteen you body be able tothrow eighty seven, eighty eight miles an
hour, eighty nine miles an hour. One of them is striker Pence.
I believe he's hundred Pence's nephew.He hit eighty nine in a tournament here
in Houston a couple of weeks ago. Eighty nine miles an hour at fourteen
years old. I'm not I willnever ever wish ill upon any kid,
but I just feel like the kidsthat are already hitting that are destined for
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an armage, right down the road. But how do you sustain that?
I don't know. That's my thing. It looks great, and it gets
you drafted. And if he sustainthat gets you your first round pick and
everybody's raving about's great. And hemay be a pitcher too. Hundred pence
knows baseball obviously we've seen it is. He may be a pitcher and a
thrower. But I go back tothe generation of the not degeneration player.
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But generating that explosiveness through the pitwhen you're pushing out there, all that
power that you generate, is it, you know, the torque of the
upper body, the lower boy,the lower body mechanics to generate that.
I with my quarterbacks, there's athere's a fine line between from the waist
up having a quiet, silent,quiet upper body and a violent lower half.
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I don't want it the other wayaround. A silent lower body now
silent meaning your mechanics are so good, you're not wasting motion. But a
quiet lower body with a with movingparts and a very loud upper body,
you're you're you're begging for trouble becausethe torque and the snap and that when
you reverse it, violent lower halfwith a quiet upper half. We're on
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the right path, right, Butyou're exactly right. You're ramping it,
which would be the equivalent of sixtyfeet mid nineties to push in one hundred
miles an hour. Yeah, it'snot just okay, you topped out at
that and you got to it.You hit it, staying there because once
they hit it, Brian, youain't going back to the two carrot diamond.
You want the five carrod dim.You want to stay the fire there.
You do the sustaining of it andthe sustaining of those mechanics that allow
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you to get the proper rest butgenerate that kind of velocity for so long.
Those guys are few and far between. So that's why when you get
a fourteen or a twelve year old, the mechanics at a young age to
I don't have probably if you canthrow a hundred, but that explosiveness coming
like Clemmens and again Nolan Ryan goback and Tom sever and watch they their
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push off the mound. And evenVertlander. Yeah, and so listen,
and Vertlander's been a pitcher with vloVerlander in his prime was pumping at a
hundred right, ninety nine one hundredwhen he was in Detroit. So but
he's also like a quarterback that losesa little velocity. What do you got
to You got to just be aYou got to adjust to the Greg Maddox
view throwing strikes being accurate. Soyeah, it's how we get to that
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velocity to sustain it. It ismore my concern then we don't just wake
up and some guy fell off aturn up truck in his landing throwing one
hundred and two in baseball and didn'tpitches a little league or somewhere. That
velocity was put into his head andhe had to do it. The question
is is it velocity that's done theright way or velocity is done because you're
a freaking nature right, there's abig difference, and there's a lot of
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DNA that's got to be in thereas well. Come on, dude,
you know then why isn't every sixfive, two hundred and twenty five pound
pitcher able to throw a hundred?Yeah? Because mechanics DNA And then you
get Pedro Martinez it's one hundred orTim linzcom it's one hundred and sixty five
pounds, seventy pounds, dripping wetand pumping at one hundred. Did you
see Zach EDI's high school like recruitingfilm for when he tried to pitch that
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perfect game seven to four and hewent it was like six' ten or
whatever. He was throwing like seventynine miles an hour. You think,
oh, six' ten, that'srangy ghridge, gud, you should be
throwing a hundred. Dude could barelyhit eighty miles an hour. But you
know what happens to is they tellyou that, right, hey dude,
come on, we got to getmore Vilo at you. What do you
do? You start to become athrower and not a pitcher. He chose
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the right sport. Yeah, there'sno there's no doubt about a seven one,
three, two point two, five, seven ninety the number to join
Q Jose. Uh. We'll getto you guys when we get back from
break. This is a really gooddiscussion. Alex Would former Major League Baseball
champion pitcher. He talked about theoff season and what he thinks is a
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