Alec Buttfield

@xschelling @Robertson_SJ How can I get a copy Xavi?

Done. My second PhD is complete. Grateful to my co-authors, and especially to my supervisor and friend, @Robertson_SJ. And to everyone who’s been part of the journey along the way. On to the next.

@SimplyAJ10 @DanClarkSports Getting away from Judge vs Ohtani, the lack of MLB awareness in AUS is actually worth talking about The baseball community is niche but strong, but even in that community NBA stars are more front of mind than MLB Growing the game in saturated markets is MLB'S next challenge

@DanClarkSports Have you asked Americans, Japanese, Korean, South Americans this. Or kept the data closed to friends. You should probably go into clubhouses and get more answers. Can u do that for better content

Today I asked 20 random Australians if they'd heard of Shohei Ohtani or Aaron Judge. The results were as follows: Shohei Ohtani - 17 of 20 (85%) Aaron Judge - 2 of 20 (10%) One is a global superstar, one is not.

@WBCBaseball @MLB Yes please

An epic giveaway for an epic #WorldBaseballClassic moment 😮‍💨 Repost and reply for your chance to win this Shohei Ohtani Team Japan uniform!

Australia vs Japan: the biggest game most Australians don’t realise is happening This story isn’t written for the Australian baseball community. It’s written for everyone else at home. Please share. ⬇️ baseball.com.au/news/biggameja…

A special day with Mr. Sadaharu Oh, the greatest home run hitter of all time 🇦🇺 🤝 🇯🇵 He interviewed Logan McCargill, Robbie Perkins and Robbie Glendinning for nearly an hour. The connection is the World Children’s Baseball Foundation (WCBF). It’s an event both Robbies previously participated in nearly 20 years ago in Japan. Logan, from NT but now living in SA (go Buffs 🦬 ), attended the fair in Japan 2 years ago. Each of the players shared how their experience as kids inspired them to strive for something bigger. Mr. Oh complimented both Robbies on their WBC home runs, and told Logan he believes he will one day be playing for Australia at the Tokyo Dome. Australia has multiple players for each WCBF selected to attend. @japanairlines_jal made this exchange possible, flying over Logan and his Dad to go watch Team Australia at the WBC. An incredible honour to be chat with Mr. Oh, Logan and everyone at JAL and WCBF. 🤝

Sooooo… I have created a little WBC side quest. This ball was sitting on the mantelpiece back home in Sydney. My mum is going to bring it to Japan, and hopefully… the guy on the end of this pitch would be kind enough to sign it… only three years later 👀 Wish me luck ✨

Josh Tols - funky since forever

But in my mind I have no doubt that when tech in MLB is centralized it's the people who will make the difference

The hard part would be identifying who is a high performer in this area, cutting through the noise, focusing on impact and putting together an effective team This isn't something that we as an industry has been good at, going more for a tick the box rather than assessing impact

I'm still intrigued by how data centralization in MLB is going to change behavior in MLB orgs. Co-wrote rote this article about 10 years ago how People drive innovation in elite sport researchgate.net/profile/Ted-Po… Standardizing the technology brings the focus back to people

@brianmccormick @JeremyFrisch Which Biomechanists? We'll have a union meeting about it. Their pennance will be to calibrate a turn of the century mocap system (Having said that, not a huge fan of those hops crossing the midline, especially if the COM velo is uncontrolled)

@JeremyFrisch The biomechanists told me you shouldn't train like that because you should only train "perfect" landings.

This is where youth sports often get it backwards. Kids don’t need more sport-specific training. They need more athletic development. Somewhere along the way, we convinced ourselves that earlier specialization meant better outcomes. More reps of the same skills. More drills. More structure. More pressure. But strong, fast, coordinated, resilient athletes are not built by narrowing movement early. They’re built by expanding it. Before worrying about a child’s shooting form, throwing mechanics, or position-specific skills, we should be asking: Can they run, jump, stop, and change direction? Can they balance, rotate, climb, crawl, and fall safely? Can they move with rhythm, coordination, and confidence? Athletic development is the foundation that sport skills are built on—not the other way around. Speed, strength, power, and durability don’t magically appear because a kid played one sport year-round. They come from movement variety, free play, and exposure to different physical challenges across multiple planes and environments. When we skip this phase and rush into specialization, we don’t create better athletes—we create fragile ones. Develop the athlete first. Then layer the sport on top. #LTAD

@enosarris ok, that was a quick response! I don't think this necessarily stifles innovation, but perhaps it moves from the technology and onto the application Everyone having equal access doesn't mean everyone is equal, and even in the best orgs now there are untapped innovations

@enosarris would love to hear more about it on rates & barrels during my commute!

Really interesting development As others like @drivelinekyle have already pointed out it's not going to magically make the data poor clubs into rich ones. Where it moves the focus to now is to people and organisational philosophy. Who will do it and how is it used