• Participation and Impact: The combine featured 174 prospects from MLB Pipeline’s Top 200, including 41 in the top 50. In 2024, 73.4% of participants were drafted, with 55 former attendees reaching the majors, underscoring its influence.

   

  

• On-Field Standouts:
  • Day 1: Arizona State’s Brandon Compton dominated batting practice, posting the top three exit velocities in combine history (116.9, 116.6, 116.4 mph) and a 460-ft home run. Quentin Young (Oaks Christian HS) hit 11 balls over 100 mph (max 115.4 mph), and Tate Southisene (Basic HS) had 12 over 100 mph with three over 400 ft. Reid Worley (Cherokee HS) threw a curveball with 3201 rpm, showcasing elite spin.
  • Day 2: Eric Bitonti, Cole Carrigg, and Jake Cunningham impressed with power and arm strength. Carrigg threw 100-102 mph across infield/outfield drills. Snead’s 99.2 mph fastball led pitchers, while Flores’ mid-80s slider stood out.

Kevin McNair’s 

Speed System

Speed is a skill…it can be taught

Philosophy of Speed

• No such thing as being fast or slow…it’s a matter of degrees of speed 
  
• Speed can be developed…and it’s developed through a way of thinking

1. Foot Plant
2. Posture
3. Eye Focus
4. Hip Rotation

The way that you think…determines the way that you’re going to move

Myths of Speed

• You are born with speed
• faster arms result in speed
• higher knee lift results in speed
• faster knees result in speed
• faster, shorter steps at the beginning of a burst of a 40yd sprint results in speed

These myths are myths because they are only concerned with the recovery aspect of speed.

SPEED

defined: a series of falls and recoveries. The person who falls the fastest and recovers the fastest….runs the fastest! 

There are two phases:

1. The Falling (Drive) Phase: because of leg drive and the arm going back
2. The Recovery Phase: this is what is seen in the front…with the knee and the hand lifting. Too many athletes and coaches concentrate on the Recovery Phase. They are aware of the Drive Phase. However, their real emphasis is on the Recovery phase. Why? Because one can see it. So, the deception is… is that the more frequent the hand and knee lifts… the faster one is deceived into thinking that they are running. And, in actuality, one just has quicker movements that are visible.

Download Copy of Kevin McNair Speed System

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To our friends, business acquaintances and prospective vendors… it is that time of year once again where we ask you all to SAVE THE DATES. This year we will be adding to our Education Program and Vendor Opportunities. All vendors will have the chance to be involved in our Annual Trade Show, Sponsor 1 or all of our PBSCCS Education Webinars.

The PBSCCS will now be adding our Premium Sponsors to our Social Media Experience. Your Products will get exposure on our Website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and our PBSCCS Podcasts. We have a New opportunity for our prospective Sponsors. “BECOME A HALL OF FAMER”. This new Program will allow you to integrate your products into our PBSCCS Saturday Education Symposium. These limited Hall of Fame Sponsors will be able to present in front of all the PBSCCS members, collaborate with our education committee on your presentation for all Strength Coaches, Sport Scientist and Dietitians learn about.

We will continue the opportunity to get intimate with our society by sponsoring 1 of our 4 meals at the Winter Meetings. This will give you 40 minutes alone with our whole society to discuss your products with out any distractions.

This letter is only to make you aware of these opportunities. The 2021 MLB Winter Meeting DATES ARE SET for you to review and start making plans to see us in person. The Webinar dates will be confirmed shortly. The PBSCCS will start immediately signing up Sponsors for all events. The Social Media Experience can start now if you sign up. More information to come.

2022 MLB WINTER MEETING TRADE SHOW

Date: Friday December 9th
Time: Friday afternoon 1pm – 6pm (exact times TBD)
Booth Set up is from 9am – noon
Vendor Welcome Reception is from 7pm to 9pm
Place: Location – Manchester Grand Hyatt (San Diego)
1 Market Place, San Diego CA 92101 – Hotel # 619 232 1234

PRODUCT SHOW AND SYMPOSIUM SPONSORSHIP

Hall of Fame (HOF) $10,000 (LIMITED)

The Hall of Fame (HOF) Sponsorship level is a wonderful education opportunity for your company to participate in our Saturday Education symposium. The PBSCCS education committee will have the employee of your choice work with us in the design of the presentation that is imbedded into our new education process of the winter meetings. Not only will you have visibility, but you will be able to show the members of the PBSCCS the context intended behind your product. Your presentation will then be added to the PBSCCS website for all to see.

The HOF Sponsorship allows for companies to show their support of our society by being one of our primary Winter Meetings Weekend sponsors. Your Company name will be included the PBSCCS website and social media posts and podcasts for the year of as “2022. In addition, you get a 1-minute commercial for our 2021 PBSCCS Webinars.

The Sponsorship includes a premium location for your exhibit table during the MLB Winter Meetings. The PBSCCS Product Show will help to promote your company and product line, receive a confidential contact list to all major league strength coaches and minor league coordinators. You will also get an invitation to our cocktail reception. HOF sponsors will be recognized at the cocktail reception.

All-Star Sponsorship—$6000

The All-Star Sponsorship allows for companies to show their support of our society by being one of our primary symposium sponsors. Your Company name will be included on the PBSCCS website and social media posts and podcasts for the year of as “2022 PBSCCS ALL-STAR Sponsor. In addition, you get a 1-minute commercial for our 2022 PBSCCS Webinars.

The Sponsorship includes a premium location for your exhibit table during the MLB Winter Meetings. The PBSCCS Product Show will help to promote your company and product line, receive a confidential contact list to all major league strength coaches and minor league coordinators. You will also get an invitation to our cocktail reception. All-star sponsors will be recognized at the cocktail reception. This level sponsorship support also allows your company an opportunity to participate in our Friday morning WORKSHOP to demonstrate your products.

Major League Vendor—$2500

The vendor opportunity allows for vendor to create business relationships with the strength & conditioning coaches in Major League Baseball as well as promote new products/services or re-enforce existing product lines and services. Fee includes an exhibit table for product show room, and an invitation to our cocktail reception.

Affiliate Sponsorship—$500

The Affiliate Sponsorship level allows for vendors who are unable to attend to the 2022 Winter Meetings Tradeshow to show their support to the PBSCCS through a donation that will aid in miscellaneous costs incurred at the meetings. This sponsorship will allow your company to send brochures and samples only that will be distributed to all attending members.

Webinar Only Vendor—$1000

The Webinar Only Vendor will participate in each of the PBSCCS webinar individually. This is a great option if you only want to participate in the Webinars only. This does NOT include the 2022 Winter Meetings. Each vendor will supply us with a 1 min video of their product to promote in between presentations.

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Tempe, Arizona

 

I had to go all the way out to the desert to track down Coach Joe Connolly, Arizona State’s Director of Sports Performance. I’d last seen Joe at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan when the Michigan State Spartans hosted the ASU Sun Devils. In the end, MSU couldn’t find a way to catch the shifty Sun Devil freshman QB Jayden Daniels as the capacity crowd of over 77,000, mostly in green & white, and their Sparty mascot left the stadium in shock with an upset loss. Head Coach Herm Edwards, Joe Connolly and the Sun Devil mascot, Sparky boarded their motor coaches and headed to the airport, off to PHX with the W.

Coach Connolly, a Massachusetts dude, now in his fourth year in Tempe, has settled in to Arizona living, abundant cacti, and his PAC-12 team. We’d first met back in 2008 at the University of Louisville, where Joe was an assistant with then UL Cardinals’ Head Strength Coach Joe Kenn.

Joe also spent some great years at the University of South Carolina as head strength coach for the Gamecocks and their legendary Hall of Fame Head Football Coach Steve Spurrier. In fact, they ran off three straight seasons of 11 win teams! Following that, he spent a few very enjoyable years with UMass Football. But now, he’s preparing the Arizona State Sun Devils for the week to week challenges of a competitive PAC-12 Conference. Things can be really good out west when you’ve had some nice season victories versus UCLA, USC and Washington.
Connolly is working in tandem with Coach Edwards, where they have assembled an improving squad built with a punishing, powerful running back in Rachaad White, the evasive QB Jayden Daniels and a very impactful Defense that seems to get stronger toward the end of games. Coach Connolly also has a dedicated staff to help ensure that the player development program works to maximum efficiency. Sun Devil Football Assistant Sports Performance Directors Clayton Kirven and Colbert Calhoun, as well as Graduate Assistant Weston Gadient are making certain that Sun Devils definitely have a bright future. 
Arizona State will face the Wisconsin Badgers in the Las Vegas Bowl at Allegiant Stadium on Dec. 30.

 

In this ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power Podcast, we discuss:

• Coach Joe Connolly’s career path that led him to working with Herm Edwards at ASU  
• ‘Developmental Fridays’
• the extensive in-season training program
• what Sun Devil legend Pat Tillman means to ASU and all of Arizona

This ASAP Podcast is brought to you in part by:

• TEAMBUILDR
• SPECATHLETIC Sports Flooring
• Pit Shark Strength Equipment
• The Bill Jacobs Power Company
• The CBD Healthcare Company

 

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