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Chris O'Leary: Baseball & Innovation ChrisOLeary.com ChrisOLeary.com Clients | BUY | FREE | Hitting | Pitching | Innovation | Sins Critical Thinker. Problem-Solver. Writing about Innovation. Hitting and Pitching are my sandbox. Student of the Game of Baseball. Father. Catholic sex abuse survivor . Relentless. Fearless. After the 2007 season, Torres remained stuck in AAA, and he knew something had to change. With the help of Chris O'Leary , a private hitting coach, he began looking at all the video he could find on hitters he admired, starting with Albert Pujols . He saw the way they generated power by rotating through the pitch. - A Band of Misfits Chris O'Leary My most recent project is an overview of my view of the pitcher injury epidemic and some of the key, related topics... Timing 20.10.7 Flat Arm Syndrome 20.10.7 Inverted W 20.10.7 Tommy John Twist 20.10.7 When it comes to Pitching , I've been thinking and writing about a number of topics... FREE Pitching Clinic Verlander: What Happened Forearm Flyout 20.9.25 Forearm Flyout, Wolforth, Verlander Inverted W Death to the Inverted W Elbow Angle Elbow Spiral Tommy John Twist Arm Slot When it comes to Hitting , I've been thinking and writing about... FREE Hitting Clinic Simplest Swing 20.10.16 Coil in Hitting 20.10.18 Short to the Ball 20.10.14 Deceleration 20.9.30 Swing Length 20.9.29 Rotational Hitting How to Fix Bat Drag Bat Drag Bat Drag FAQ 20.9.30 Albert Pujols Swing My piece on the game of Indian Ball describes a stripped-down version of baseball, popular in St. Louis, that you can play with as few as 3-4 people... Indian Ball: Game & Rules Hitting I'm nobody. I didn't play organized baseball beyond grade school. And I've helped transform the swings, approaches, and careers of multiple major leagues hitters. With my help... Andres Torres put up 6.3 WAR in 2010. Mark Trumbo hit a best in baseball 47 home runs in 2016. Tommy Pham put up 6.1 WAR in 2017. Most recently, I helped reinvigorate the offense of HSSU , an NAIA baseball team and HBC for whom I was the Hitting Coordinator from February 2016 thru February 2017. YEAR AVG SLG OBP 2014 .298 .412 .369 2015 .263 .357 .350 2016 .311 .449 .400 2017 .334 .472 .420 2018 .286 .424 .387 2019 .276 .434 .354 While it pains me to see the guys at HSSU regress since I left, I hope it makes it clear that, when it comes to hitting , I know what I'm talking about. I know about training, but hitting was difficult. And then in ’08... There’s a guy called Chris O’Leary (a St. Louis fan who kept online flipbooks breaking down Pujols’ swing). He’s online. He talks about Rotation . He's got video examples of Pujols , and I watched those. - Andres Torres 2012 Pitching In addition to my fifteen years of research into the epidemic of injuries in pitchers like Alex Reyes , I've spent the past two years studying Justin Verlander's pitching mechanics and trying to figure out how to maximize pitchers' velocity while also preventing injuries. You can't prevent every pitching injury. But you can prevent a lot of them. And still throw HARD. Student of the Game What am I? Just a student of the game. When I started coaching and working with my kids and their friends, I didn't know anything — less than nothing, in truth — so I did what my Big 5 consulting background taught me to do. I started studying the industry. That meant benchmarking great hitters like... Ted Williams Mickey Mantle Stan Musial Albert Pujols Mike Trout ...and great pitchers like... Nolan Ryan Tom Seaver Mariano Rivera Justin Verlander Aroldis Chapman ...to see what they did and what made them successful. Actually. I say "actually" because I quickly came to understand that what I was taught, and what most people were and are still teaching, was and is not what the best players actually do. If you want to learn what I discovered and what I taught my kids and now my clients, I offer a series of baseball webBooks, eBooks, and streaming DVDs . Chris, I appreciate all u do. I have nothing but great respect for your passion and conviction. Stay on plane, my friend. Kevin Schnall Coastal Carolina Baseball 2016 NCAA D-1 National Champions Philosophy More is more. That's what people seem to think when it comes to hitting and pitching instruction. More drills, more videos, more of everything. All of which take more time to read, view, and process. While that's fun for some, it didn't work for me. So I take the opposite approach. Less is more. I invest significant money — and, more importantly, time — in getting to the essence of a subject. To its core. To editing, not writing. My clients tend to be people who want the best information but also value their time. FREE 10-MINUTE CLINICS Increasingly, instructors seem to believe more is more; that to stand out, you have to overwhelm people with information and drills. The more I work with both youth coaches and college players, the more I'm finding less is more. That's the logic behind my 10-minute... FREE Hitting Clinic FREE Pitching Clinic It's also the logic behind all of my hitting and pitching products . ELEVATOR PITCH ESSENTIALS I have long been interested in innovation and entrepreneurship and have worked for a series of software start-ups as a result. Drawing upon these experiences, Elevator Pitch Essentials explains how to get your point across in two minutes or less. How to Get Your Point Across in Two Minutes or Less You can buy Elevator Pitch Essentials via my web site . My Elevator Pitch primer is a good place to start if you are unfamiliar with the concept of an elevator pitch. THE PARADOX OF PAIN I am in the process of writing a second book entitled The Paradox Of Pain that explains the critical — but too often overlooked — relationship between pain, change, and innovation. Why the Brightest Innovations Grow Out of the Darkest Emotions Sins of the Fathers I'm a survivor of the Catholic Church's sex abuse crisis. I was sexually exploited, abused, and ultimately assulated — raped — by Father LeRoy Valentine at The Church of the Immacolata in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Abuse that was witnessed, at least in part, by... - Cardinal Timothy Dolan Then, when I went to Archdiocese of St. Louis for help, first in 2002 and again in 2011, that's when things got REALLY bad. - Abuse of the Abused I've put together a number of overviews of my story ... READ: Exec Summ | Essay LISTEN: Glover Show O'Leary Interview WATCH: Flannel Shirt Guy Conversation I've also created a number of summaries of the role played by some of the big names in the Catholic Church in my story... The Program Pope Francis Dolan Carlson Rozanski I tell my entire story via a series of essays I call The Sins of the Fathers ... Table of Contents My newest and most recently updated pieces are... Cardinal Dolan & The Crisis Rozanski Questions SPOTLIGHT and Since Cardinals of St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson What's New? SPOTLIGHT and Me VOS ESTIS: The Reality Cardinal Dolan's Sins The Smoking Gun Sacrificed The Program about | contact | copyright | sitemap | liability policy...