chrisoleary.comChris O'Leary

ChrisOLeary.com ChrisOLeary.com Clients | BUY | Innovation | Hitting | Pitching | Survivor Critical Thinker. Problem-Solver. Private Hitting coach with MLB clients . Student of the Game of Baseball, especially Pitching and the Epidemic . Starting a podcast about Innovation . Father. Catholic Survivor . Fearless. Relentless. Emboldened by Christ. Torres’ favorite is Pujols. He is in such awe of Pujols’ swing that he’ll not only watch his at-bats but go online and use Google to find out more. In early 2008 he found some flipbooks breaking down the Cardinals first baseman’s swing frame by frame and out of the blue called the website’s creator, a St. Louis area suburban dad named ... - Joe Lemire SPORTS ILLUSTRATED October 13, 2010 Speedy Andres Torres fast becoming invaluable to Giants If you’re new to my work and me, my more popular pieces include... Albert Pujols Swing Analysis Bat Drag Fixing Bat Drag High Level Pattern (HLP) Rotational Hitting My recently updated pieces include... The Epidemic Sequel: SPOTLIGHT, Since & Me Sacrificed Podcast Sins of the Fathers As part of my efforts to understand what’s happening to baseball pitchers, I make predictions about pitchers via my Twitter account @thepainguy . Alex Reyes makes me nervous. Elbow and also shoulder. pic.twitter.com/J1i0iMckOb — | Baseball (@thepainguy) March 31, 2014 I have a broad range of interests, so there are many elements to my story. Hitting (Baseball & Fast Pitch) Pitching (Baseball) The Epidemic Innovation Catholic Survivor Sins of the Fathers Sacrificed SPOTLIGHT Hitting I’m nobody. I never played organized baseball beyond grade school. And I’ve helped multiple players make it to, and be successful in, the major leagues, including... Andres Torres Mark Trumbo Tommy Pham That started when, in May 2008, Andres Torres called me... After the 2007 season, (Andres) 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. - Andrew Baggerly A Band of Misfits ...having seen my analysis of Albert Pujols’ swing ... Albert Pujols 2009 Home Run to LCF ...and my flipbooks , particularly my... Albert Pujols Flipbook Swing Analysis (Pujols7 Clip) Andres asked me to teach him the principles of the High-Level Swing Pattern , starting with Rotation . I know about training, but hitting was difficult. And then in ’08... There’s a guy named 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. - Joe Lemire SPORTS ILLUSTRATED October 13, 2010 Speedy Andres Torres fast becoming invaluable to Giants Since then, I’ve picked up numerous major league scouts and college baseball and fast pitch softball coaches as followers. 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 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 When it comes to Hitting , my most popular pieces are. FREE Hitting Primer Simplest Swing Albert Pujols Swing Analysis Albert Pujols Swing Albert Pujols Swing GIF Rotational Hitting Bat Drag Bat Drag: Overview Launch Angle Swing Hands Inside the Ball High-Level Pattern High Level Swing High Level Swing Pictures High Level Swing GIF One-Legged Hitting One-Legged Swing Two-Legged Hitting Two-Legged Swing Two-Legged Hitter Short to the Ball Other pieces I’ve been working on lately include... Kickback in Hitting The Move in Hitting Weight Shift Hitting What is Bat Drag? Baseball Swing Pictures Point of Contact Position Hitting Myths & Misconceptions Swing Length Pitching When it comes to Pitching , my Point Of View, and Point of Difference, is simple; the conventional wisdom about pitching mechanics is — whether they know it or not — focused on developing RELIEVER grade arms. That’s why modern pitchers throw harder, but can’t stay healthy. In contrast, I’m focused on developing STARTERS; pitchers who are BOTH Dominant and Durable. The pitchers with the best pitching mechanics include... Justin Verlander (PRE-2020) Justin Verlander Injury Pictures of Justin Verlander Aroldis Chapman Pictures of Aroldis Chapman When it comes to pitching in general, and Pitching Mechanics in particular, I’ve been thinking and writing about a number of topics... FREE Pitching Clinic Pitching Mechanics: Slow Motion Proper Pitching Mechanics Arm Slot Epidemic Since 2005, I’ve been working to try to understand what modern baseball pitchers are, increasingly, having such a hard time staying healthy. Credentials My most recent project is an overview of my view of the baseball pitcher injury epidemic and some of the key, related topics... Tricks & Shortcuts Athletic Velocity The Epidemic: Overview Hunter Greene: What Happened? What Happened to Hunter Greene: The Tweets Hunter Greene’s Pitching Mechanics Mark Prior: What Happened? Strasburg: What Happened? Verlander: What Happened? Forearm Flyout Forearm Flyout, Wolforth, Verlander Judging Timing: Overview Late Arm Inverted W Death to the Inverted W Elbow Spiral Tommy John Twist Tommy John Twist: Overview TICaNS: An Overview TICaNS Baseball & Fast Pitch 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 . 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 . Innovation I got into the baseball stuff as a result of my broader interest in Innovation. 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...