MLB Opening Day
Today on Krush Performance, Opening Day is behind us and the MLB season is underway – we’re talking baseball.
We are going to look at the Annual Krush list of teams & players to follow this season – we’ll look at why they are worthy of your interest and we’ll use them as a reference point for performance in the sport
Krush Favorite Donovan Santas, the Head of Strength and Conditioning for the Blue Jays, joins me about their new player performance program
We’ll also be joined by Jeff Passan MLB columnist for Yahoo Sports & Author & of his new Book “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” that hit the shelves early April.
Pitching is the most valuable commodity in all of sport – the 30 Major League teams will spend more than $1.5 billion dollars on pitching this year – Believe me, injury prevention is KING!!!
In one recent study that looked at injury trends in Major League Baseball from 1998-2015, it was found that an average teams spent over $423 million & a total of $7. 618 billion over these 18 years. Surprisingly, nearly 39% of all surgeries occurred in the last 5 years – that’s $2.9 billion spent on injuries in the last 5 years!!!!
When you consider that 25% of major league pitchers and 15% of minor league pitchers have had a surgery, you get the idea that injury prevention is not just important, it is CRITICAL to winning & losing! In fact, if you look back on recent history, there were more Tommy John surgeries in 2014 than the entire decade of the 1990’s!
As we learn more, become smarter and understand more about athlete development and performance along with the amount of money being spent on players, you would think we would be doing much better at keeping players healthy but the injury rates continue to sky rocket as do the salaries & pay rolls.
This season, the average salary in Major League baseball hits $4.4 million. There is a record 127 major league players earning $10 million or more this year – with The Dodger’s lefty Clayton Kershaw earning the league’s highest salary at $33 million. According to the USA Today’s, MLB will have 36 players earning more than $20 millon this season.
The Dodgers and Yankees are the only two teams that have pay rolls over $200 million this season but here is an interesting thing. According to one report, the Dodgers will spend $113 million on players on the DL, former players now playing with other teams, and key players in the minor leagues. Keep in mind, that leaves only $146 million spent on the active roster – so the payroll numbers can be deceiving.
Regardless – the Dodgers will spend more on players who are not playing for them than 14 other teams will spend on their entire payrolls!
So if you have a young athlete in the family – you may want to start encouraging an interest in baseball & to be more precise Pitching.
It’s great work if you can get it.
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Krush Performance is a trusted source of sport performance and athletic development information that brings together the athletes, the coaches, the researchers, the parents & fans in a community dedicated to sharing the very latest sport performance trends and research to INSPIRE, MOTIVATE AND EDUCATE and help you understand what its truly like to achieve Human Maximum Performance.
Invite your teammates, coaches, family and friends to join in as we work to push talent and performance to new heights.
Jeff Krushell is regarded as a noted expert in the area of talent development in sport and through his work has gained unique insights into the process of improving performance… ‘It’s a human thing’.
Over the last 20 years Jeff has worked in the world of high performance sport helping athletes tap into their potential to truly understand what it is like to achieve Human Maximum Performance. Engineering his unique blend of sport science and training techniques with the holy grail of success; ‘motivation’, Jeff’s expertise lies in creating the next generation of top performers.
Jeff has forged relationships with athletes, Olympians and internationally renowned sport elitists; coaches, sport scientists, doctors and researchers. All of who are constantly pushing the boundaries of human performance. Jeff’s message relates to all levels of human performance and is not exclusive to sport.
• Host & Founder of The Krush Performance Radio Show aired on TSN 1260 Edmonton
• Current Strength and Conditioning Consultant for Major League Baseball International
• Current Performance Consultant for CTV, Edmonton
• Current Strength & Conditioning Consultant for Vauxhall Baseball Academy
• Current Performance Consultant for Link Management
• Former Strength and Conditioning coach for the Toronto Blue Jays
• Former Strength and Conditioning coach for the Edmonton Eskimos
Krush Performance is a trusted source of sport performance and athletic development information that brings together the athletes, the coaches, the researchers, the parents & fans in a community dedicated to sharing the very latest sport performance trends and research to INSPIRE, MOTIVATE AND EDUCATE and help you understand what its truly like to achieve Human Maximum Performance.
Invite your teammates, coaches, family and friends to join in as we work to push talent and performance to new heights.
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