Good morning.

And since you are up so early I though you mind find this interesting. I did not want to start the new thread off with it.

I am including it verbatim below, and I apologize for the length.

“Dear Sir:

I was wondering if you shed any light on a question I have.

Recently, I was arguing with someone on the influence of “mound
temperament,” or “perceived emotionality” on pitching performance.

My POV was that there was no correlation whatsoever between a Starting
pitcher’s performance and the above, I.e. mound temperament or
emotionality.

Have there been any scientific studies that shed any light on this
relationship ?”

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” Dear Sir,

After my baseball pitchers learn how to throw the pitches that I
teach them, their next step is to throw those pitches in pitch sequences
that are appropriate for each type of baseball batter in games as they
do in bullpens. When they can do that, I say that they have ‘mound
presence.’

I agree that, for baseball pitchers to do this, they have to have
confidence that they can do it. I suppose that we could call this ‘mound
temperament’ or ‘perceived emotionality.’

I suppose that psycho-therapists could interview baseball pitchers
about their ‘feelings’ and write a report. But, other that quantifying
the percent strikes that baseball pitchers throw during bullpens versus
during games, I do not see how researchers can study this phenomenon.”

Sincerely,

Dr. Mike Marshall

I guess the debate will have to rage on.

upstate kate
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:57 am
GB7
why are you up so early? go back to bed and get some rest

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I had a killer headache and a little trouble breathing. Not enough pizza in my system, I guess. How is your morning going? Besides snowing and cold.

“Selig also addressed a potential controversy regarding a federal investigation into a Canadian physician who is suspected of violations involving performance enhancing drugs. Several players have already been linked to Anthony Galea, but the investigation is still in a preliminary stage. Selig expressed interest in the case and said that the league will be paying very close attention to it.”

“We have a department of investigation created years ago at the recommendation of Senator [George] Mitchell,” he said. “We’re very well plugged into this situation. We’ll continue to monitor it closely. I don’t have at this point in time — and I say this with trepidation — I don’t think there is a great deal to be worried about, but we will monitor it very closely.”

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/articl.....8;c_id=mlb

Looks like much ado about nothing.

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My favorite were finger tip pushups for the wrists.

Seattle has gone totally light weights all through the system. Wonder if they have discovered something new? Something like defensive baseball last year. This year baseball discovers Yoga.

2) when Hirsh said he hadn’t been throwing the hook much (I assume this is the term he used), we all know what that is, this is a baseball blog. you didn’t need to fill in (curveball). thanks for clearing that up though.

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He’s doing these interviews because these are the players that people on this board asked for…the guys in camp that nobody on here knows much about.