Prehension Athletics

Motor Tract 1 and Motor Tract 5 produce motion entirely different from one another. Motor Tract 5 continues to cause mechanical nightmares for pitchers and hitters because they don’t understand the different ways our peripheral nervous system alerts our central nervous system to…

Cam Schlittler is pitching vs the Blue Jays tonight…..The Blue Jays are the best team in baseball at picking up a pitcher tipping his pitches. Cam uses the muscles of motor tract 5 on his left side so he tips his breaking ball from the stretch…. The only way a pitcher can get…

This angle of Ohtani’s HR last night provides a unique look at how the muscles of motor tract 1 simultaneously protract and retract the scapula during the swing…. Motor tract 1 hitters use their serratus anterior to move the scap on their lead side. Motor tract 2,3, and 4…

Dustin May pitches vs the Red Sox today…. Dustin May tips his breaking ball from the stretch… He has the exact same tell when he comes set as Jesus Luzardo does. The tell happens as he sets his hands to grip his breaking ball. The glove hand thumb contracts the abductor…

Riley Greene is hitting .192 in July….. He hit .360 in June…. Riley went from moving the right side of his scapula with the muscles of motor tract 1 to using the muscles of motor tract 5… This has completely changed the way his body loads and unloads when he swings…. The…

Omar Vizquel used the muscles of motor tract 1 to field the baseball… Trevor Story uses the muscles of motor tract 3 to field the baseball… Omar’s first step covered ground between him and the baseball. Trevor’s first step creates more space between him and the baseball….…

Jacob Wilson hit .323 in June after hitting .368 in May and .330 in April….. He’s hitting .128 in July…. Our cerebellum controls our balance, posture, and coordination subconsciously……. Sometimes a hitter makes mindless changes to his prehension that end up changing the…

Yu Darvish has a 9.18 ERA this year…. He had a 3.31 ERA in 2024…. Back then he used the muscles of motor tract 1 to power the left side of his body…..Now he uses the muscles of motor tract 5 to power the left side of his body…. The biggest acquisition most MLB teams could…

Ernie Clement is hitting .284 with 5 HR’s….. Sometime Ernie uses the least favorable mechanics built into our central nervous system when he hits (motor tract 5)…. Other times he uses the most favorable mechanics built into our central nervous system when he hits (motor tract…

Luis Severino pitches vs the Astros tonight…. Severino tips his breaking ball from the stretch….. It’s obvious he knows it and he tries to fix it but instead of fixing it he ends up creating less favorable positions to throw from instead…. Even if a team doesn’t know how to…

Jesus Luzardo used the muscles of motor tract 1 on the right side of his body when he pitched for Miami….. This is why he never tipped his breaking ball as a member of the Marlins. He uses the muscles of motor tract 5 now so he HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO TIP HIS BREAKING BALL in…

Nobody better in baseball at picking this up than Cora…..The craziest part of Luzardos’s issue is it would take seconds to fix and it would be fixed for his entire career.

Jesus Luzardo pitches vs the Red Sox tonight…. Luzardo has tipped his breaking ball from the stretch all season long…. There are a couple of guys in Red Sox uniforms that have feasted on this tell for the better part of a decade… Jesus has tried setting his hands at his…

Justin Verlander is 0-8 with a 4.99 ERA with SF this year…. He was 6-5 with a 3.15 ERA with the Mets in 2023… Back then he used the muscles of motor tract 1 on the left side of his body…. He’s using the muscles of motor tract 3 this season…. This has completely changed…

Zac Gallen pitches vs the Astros tonight….. Zac tips his breaking ball from the stretch and the Astros are usually all over this tell….The Blue Jays are probably the only team in baseball that pick this tell up better than the Astros. The only way to fix this tell is to…

Alex Rodriguez used the muscles of motor tract 1 for most of his career and finished his career with 696 HR’s and a .295 avg… Konnor Griffin uses the muscles of motor tract 1 and is currently hitting .325 with 13 HR’s in his first year of pro ball as a 19 year old… There are…

Jack Flaherty had an 2.95 ERA in 106 IP in Detroit last season… He currently has a 4.65 ERA in 100 IP in Detroit this season…. Jack’s lead leg is using a different set of muscles as primary movers this season and it’s likely he doesn’t realize it… The cause of this is next…

Mookie Betts is hitting .189 in July and is down to .240 with 11 HR’s on the season…. He hit .307 with 39 HR’s in 2023…. Mookie has made a slight change to his prehension and it’s completely changed the muscles he uses to swing the bat… We have a muscle called the serratus…

Caleb Durbin is hitting .353 in July….He hit .203 in May…. Caleb has been using the muscles of motor tract 1 on the left side of his body recently…..He used the muscles of motor tract 4 on his left side early on in the season…. There is one minor difference in Caleb’s…

Freddie Freeman hit .410 in May….. He’s hitting .204 in July after hitting .200 in June…. Freddie has made a slight change to his prehension and it’s completely changed how his body produces motion… If you understand the antagonist and agonist relationship of our…

Royce Lewis is hitting .211 with 2 HR’s in 142 AB’s in 2025 using the muscles of motor tract 5… He hit 6 HR’s in his first 41 at bats of the 2024 season using the muscles of motor tract 1…. Royce has made a mindless change to his prehension and it’s completely derailed the…