The scientific examination of batting in baseball has undergone an explosion in recent years, with a number of new paradigms aimed at understanding and exploring both behavioral and neuroscientific influences on batting performance. Although this research has made great strides in developing a
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The Influence of Pitch-by-Pitch Feedback on Neural Activity and Pitch Perception in Baseball
Jason R. Themanson, Nicole J. Bing, Brad E. Sheese, and Matthew B. Pontifex
Swinging for the Fences? Payroll, Performance, and Risk Behavior in the Major League Baseball Draft
Jeffrey Q. Barden and Yohan Choi
this theoretical relationship and its manifestation in the context of this study. Figure 1 —The influence of potential slack and competitive advantage on team risk behavior. We test our hypotheses in the context of the Major League Baseball (MLB) player draft selections of high school players with no
Optimized Simulation of Upper Body Timing on the Production of Bat-Head Speed in Baseball Batting
Kazumichi Ae, Dave Burke, Takashi Kawamura, and Sekiya Koike
Batting performance in baseball is noticeably linked to bat-head speed 1 ; therefore, bat-head speed is an effective criterion within investigations of batting mechanics. The generation of bat-head speed is generally demonstrated to involve using a kinetic chain that transfers mechanical energy
Return to Sport and Clinical Outcomes Following Osteochondral Autograft Transplantation in Baseball Players and Gymnasts With Unstable Osteochondritis Dissecans: A Critically Appraised Topic
Natalie L. Myers, Sean M. Kennedy, Luke D. Thorburn, John E. Conway, and J. Craig Garrison
common in elbow OCDs. 3 The trauma can be associated with both articular cartilage and subchondral bone deformation. 1 OCD presents itself in competitive baseball players and gymnasts between the ages of 11 and 15 years of age. 1 It is seen in these groups of athletes due to the repetitive loading
High Thoracic Kyphosis and Backward Trunk Inclination Angles in the Single-Leg Standing Position Associate With Medial Elbow Injuries in Youth Baseball Players: A Cross-Sectional Study
Akira Saito, Kyoji Okada, Hiromichi Sato, Kazuyuki Shibata, and Tetsuaki Kamata
Baseball pitching is a coordinated movement involving the lower and upper extremities and spine. Proper trunk motions help transfer energy from the lower extremities to the upper extremities during pitching motions, and this energy is subsequently transferred to the ball. 1 Conversely, improper
New Evidence in the Study of Shirking in Major League Baseball
Richard J. Paulsen
( Krautmann, von Allmen, & Walters, 2018 ) and the team-player relationship ( Krautmann, 2018 ; Paulsen, 2018 ). This paper uses variation in contract length in Major League Baseball (MLB) to study the relationship between player performance and years remaining on the player’s contract. While multiyear
Examining Differences in Movement Competency in Professional Baseball Players Born in the United States and Dominican Republic
Garrett S. Bullock, Taylor Chapman, Thomas Joyce, Robert Prengle, Taylor Stern, and Robert J. Butler
There is an increasing percentage of international players within Major League Baseball. 1 It has been reported that 25% of Major League Baseball and 40% of Minor League Baseball players come from outside the United States (US), 1 , 2 with the highest percentage throughout all of professional
The Contribution of Lower-Body Kinematics to Pitching and Hitting Performance in Baseball: Utilizing the OpenBiomechanics Project
Corey S. Perrett
In baseball, it is generally accepted that the performance of both pitchers and hitters is important for team and organizational success. While it is hard to say for certain which characteristics are most sought after among individual players, a higher ball velocity in pitchers 1 – 3 and higher
Is There Economic Discrimination on Sport Social Media? An Analysis of Major League Baseball
Nicholas M. Watanabe, Grace Yan, Brian P. Soebbing, and Ann Pegoraro
accounting of sport consumers. Furthermore, due to the fact that social media provides baseball fans with abundant choices of who to follow across teams, individuals are not particularly limited by choices made by the team in their market. In this manner, social media provides a useful path to approach sport
Baseball Front Office Careers: Expectations and Realities
Susan Hofacre and Scott Branvold
Two hundred sixty-one participants in a baseball career seminar and 90 minor league front office personnel were surveyed to examine (a) what characteristics are viewed as important for a front office career in baseball and (b) how job seekers' expectations correspond to what people working in baseball say is reality. Experience and contacts were seen by both groups as important for entering the field, and both groups viewed speaking, time management, and organizational skills as necessary abilities. Enjoyable work was ranked highest as part of a baseball career by both job seekers and baseball personnel, while free time was ranked lowest as an outcome from such a career. Spearman Rho analysis reflected that expectations of job seekers correspond to baseball personnel rankings in terms of relative importance of various skills and job characteristics. However, Z-test comparisons showed job seekers score several skills higher in absolute importance than front office personnel do, including knowledge of baseball and general sports, and several job characteristics as more likely to exist, including job stability and good salary.
