Jake Witt

According to the @HillsboroHops broadcast and @RichBurk1, Brian Curley was hitting 99.8 mph on his fastball! Through 4 innings, he has 7 strikeouts and plenty of whiffs on 64 pitches!

If you missed it — Kona Takahashi averaged 94.7 mph on his heater in an outing he threw 125 total pitches. Gyro slider 5+ mph harder than the NPB average on the same shape. unfilteredlabs.com/blog/kona-taka…

“…. a dream or a goal. The terminology is not important. What’s important is whether the dream or goal gives birth to a process.” —Dr. Bob Rotella

Kohl's Cash 💸 Kohl Drake has been named PCL Pitcher of the Week by @milb following his five scoreless, hitless innings with five strikeouts in Albuquerque! @dbacks | #Aceball

What a Soddies debut for Ashton Izzi! 5 IP | 4 H | 0 R | 0 BB | 3 K He generated a ton of weak contact and silly swings! Fastball command was excellent, too! @sodpoodles | #Dbacks

WHAT A #Dbacks SYSTEM DEBUT FOR BRIAN CURLEY: 4 IP | 3 H | 0 R | 0 BB | 8 K He kept his fastball up in the zone and pushed his breaking ball down, allowing for a bunch of poor swings! @HillsboroHops | #AllHoppedUp

Really impressive first start by Chung-Hsiang Huang: 4 IP | 1 H | 0 R | 1 BB | 6 K His command was absolutely stellar, which made his wicked split-change even more terrifying! @VisaliaRawhide | #Dbacks

Michael's immaculate 🤌

an automated pitcher game card that's just "WITHIN EXPECTED VARIATION" in gigantic word art next to a guy's headshot for nearly every start

Kobe Bryant: "Failure doesn't exist, it's a figment of your imagination" An interviewer asks: "Are you someone who loves to win or hates to lose?" Kobe responds: "I'm neither. I play to figure things out. I play to learn something. Because if you play with a fear of failure or you play with the will to win that supersedes fear, I think it's a weakness either way. If you play with fear of failing, you'll capitulate to that fear. If you play with the sense of 'I want to win, I want to win,' then you have the fear of what happens if you don't. But if you find common ground in the center, you're unfazed by either. That enables you to stay in the moment and not feel anything other than what's in front of you." The interviewer asks: "How did you become someone who doesn't seem afraid of failing?" Kobe responds: "What does failure mean? It doesn't exist. It's a figment of your imagination." He explains with an analogy: "Let's use happy endings. Everybody wants a happy ending, right? Snow White finds her prince and lives happily ever after. Well, I call BS on that because two months later, they had an argument and he's sleeping on the couch. The point is: the story continues. So if you fail on Monday, the only way it's a failure is if you decide to not progress from that. If I fail today, I'm going to learn something from that failure and try again on Tuesday. That's why failure doesn't exist." The interviewer asks: "If you finished your career without a championship, would you have looked at that as a failure?" Kobe: "No. I would look at it as being extremely disappointed, because I had a dream and goals I wanted to accomplish. If I didn't accomplish those goals, I'd have to ask myself why. Poor leadership? Failure to communicate with my teammates? Lack of preparation? Those would be reasons why I didn't win. So I'd have to analyze that. And as I evolved post-basketball into business, those same weaknesses would reveal themselves there too. If I don't learn from that, I'm going to struggle again." He concludes: "I can take those situations and learn from them and have them make me a better person later in life. But if I don't take that stuff and apply it someplace else, that's failing. The worst possible thing you can ever do is to stop. It's to not learn."

- Wellington Aracena pumped 101 mph en route to 3 innings of 1-run ball - Hunter Cranton's angles were absolutely gross, resulting in a strong inning of work! - Sawyer Hawks is WEIRD. Extremely high arm angle, cut fastball, and a funky changeup/splitter!

Hunter Cranton, holy *#$%!

"When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort." – James Dyson

14 minutes in the clubhouse with Bad Bunny blaring?! We call that a Tuesday in minor league baseball.

Offseason? We don't know her.

Coach Steve back in the building!

🚨 I can’t stop thinking about this coaching concept: The Michelangelo Effect It changes how you view leadership. Here’s why: [THREAD] 🧵

Wow: The legendary Tom Brady was asked if he would have stayed at Michigan in today’s portal/NIL era. His answer is PRICELESS.

Very applicable to command training. Whatever method you use, differential balls, targets, obstacles, all can train the skill. But the difficult, variable practice should be used to drive in game confidence. Been there, done that (with more difficulty)