Perfect Games Announces Strategic Partnership with Pocket Path and its Innovative Arm Action Trainer
Revolutionary Wearable Throwing Trainer Helps Young Players Develop Correct Throwing and Arm Mechanics
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Perfect Game CEO, Brad Clement, today announced a strategic partnership with Pocket Path, makers of the innovative Pocket Path Arm Action Training Kit. Through this partnership, Pocket Path will receive signage and display space at Perfect Game events throughout the nation.
Additionally, Pocket Path will receive ad placements on Perfect Game s digital platforms, driving sales and education of Pocket Path products. The Pocket Path Arm Action Training Kit, designed by former Major League pitcher, Dave Coggin (Philadelphia Phillies, 2000-02), helps baseball players make consistently strong, accurate throws and improve pitching success, by using repetition to develop proper
February 28, 2021
Tigers manager A.J. Hinch addressed the importance of being aggressive on the base paths during his Saturday morning media session. What he shared included the following, which I quoted on Twitter:
“Your WAR gets dinged whenever you get thrown out on the bases. It’s not valued. People are very aware… players are very aware of that. Winning baseball is good for your WAR too, even if it’s not quantifiable.”
Almost immediately, people began responding critically, opining that Hinch was (pun intended) off base. Feeling that more context was in order I’d prefaced the original Tweet by noting the subject at hand I added that Hinch also said that if you’re safe every time, you’re probably not being aggressive enough.
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Baseball is cruel to all of its children, but it’s particularly harsh on relievers. Even with the trend towards shorter appearances, it’s starters who hog the glory. They’re the ones who rack up the big numbers, most of the awards and most of the money. They’re the ones with the shots at perfect games and no-hitters. Ok, so sometimes there are
combined no-hitters, but who remembers that Kirk Saarloos threw an inning and a third of a Houston Astros no-hitter? Not even his family, I bet.
Relievers get saves and holds, but the save is so contrived that one was recorded in a game won by 27 runs, and I think everyone knows the only people who pay attention to holds are the folks who care way too much about fantasy baseball. Besides, both saves and holds are too common to be properly exciting. What’s the pinnacle of relieverism? What’s the most incredible thing a reliever could do in a single game?
1962
The Houston Colt .45s play their first Major League game on April 10, defeating the Chicago Cubs 11-2.
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1964
Ken Johnson becomes the first major leaguer to lose a nine-inning no-hitter on April 23 with a 1-0 loss to the Cincinnati Reds.
1965
The Houston Colt .45s become the Houston Astros and inaugurate indoor baseball with a 2-1 exhibition win over the New York Yankees on April 9 in the Astrodome.rookie Joe Morgan sets club marks for at-bats, runs, hits and triples.
1966
Mike Cuellar sets a club mark with a 2.22 ERA.home attendance mark which stood for 22 years set on June 22 as 50,908 watch Sandy Koufax and the Dodgers down Houston 5-2.
The following article is part of Jay Jaffe’s ongoing look at the candidates on the BBWAA 2021 Hall of Fame ballot. For a detailed introduction to this year’s ballot, and other candidates in the series, use the tool above; an introduction to JAWS can be found here. For a tentative schedule and a chance to fill out a Hall of Fame ballot for our crowdsourcing project, see here. All WAR figures refer to the Baseball-Reference version unless otherwise indicated.
Earlier in this series, I profiled 2021 Hall of Fame candidates Tim Hudson and Barry Zito, who together made up two-thirds of the “Big Three” starters who helped the