Services Provided

Hitting Specific Movement Assessment

In baseball we are often quick to compare players.  These are typically based on superficial features like height and weight, but similar players can have completely different mobility levels.  We have to know the mobility capabilities of each player before advising mechanical adjustments.

To understand how an athlete should swing a bat, we first must understand the movement capabilities of each individual.  The mobility level of a player will dictate his optimal swing style.  We will determine if athletes are currently employing a style correct for their body through a 20-step hitting- specific mobility screen.  This 10-minute process will vary from programs currently done by most strength and conditioning staffs.  We combine pieces of FMS, TPI, SFMA along with unique screens we developed that are relative to hitters.  Hitters are then placed into one of five movement capability catergories.  Now we can make sure coaches match swing patterns that fit the individual best.

Movement Assessments need to be done by the people working with the hitter.  Before coaches instruct a player how to move in the cage, they first need to understand what the movement capabilities of the player are.  We will work directly with your staff to teach the screening process and understanding each grade on the mobility scale.

Cross Department Coordination

It’s important that there is inter-department connection between player development and strength and conditioning.  Strength and conditioning needs to understand how the player’s movement capabilities affect swing patterns.  Being a “tight” mover or a “loose” mover is part of what makes each player uniquely explosive.  Before trying to make a “tight” player “loose,” coaches need to understand the negative impact this can have on the hitter’s explosiveness.

At the same time, hitting coaches need to understand that lack of stability or incorrect movement capabilities with mis-matched mechanical modalities are first corrected by strength and conditioning.  By adjusting hitting mechanics without addressing the underlying physiological deficiency, we are likely to make the player regress rather than improve.

Coordination and communication between departments is necessary to silo the player in the correct first step of improvement.

We speak the language of both the strength and conditioning department and the hitting coaches and can coordinate efficient intervention plans.

Technology Coordination

Hitting technology is ever evolving and staying up to speed organization-wide is difficult.  Elite Baseball Training can help implement force plate and 3D modeling through an in-person training program and continued remote services.  We are available year-round to read the organization’s technology data for you.

Elite Baseball Training is also working on new assessments, training programs, and technology platforms.  Contracted teams will receive tech forecasting and we will continually advise on implementing new pieces.

We will run training seminars on basic physiological and biomechanical principles so coaches understand what data means and why its relative to players.

Player Action Reports

Besides being biomechanists we are baseball people. We will put complex information into an easily implementable format for coaches to improve players quickly.  Plans will focus on ways to get players to top speed quicker, in-turn, improving their time to impact and allowing them to gather more information about each pitch and apply their ideal approach.

Improving time to impact allows for:

• More information about each pitch
• Later committal to the ball
• Swing and miss rate goes down
• Chase rate goes down
• Hard hit rate goes up

Draft & Free Agent Assessments

Want this data on draft prospects?  Bring our team and our BioTech Cage out to pre-draft camps to test your high-round grade players.  This will give you the most detailed analysis of a potential player’s swing and identify where they currently are in their swing ceiling.

• Movement Screening with report
• Swing Analysis with Player Action Report
• Swing Efficiency Grade