Many People say that you can acquire skills but Tools you are Born with. however now there are many programs out there to develope Tools (especially throwing Velo but also batspeed). do you think the view on tool developement has changed in that you can Train Tools with intelligent methods? or is that just selling stuff to delusional parents?
I think you can develope Tools more than some People think but of course much of the "gain" through the programs is also just natural growth and better Motor and nervous Patterns.
Are there any studies out there that have researched that Topic?
You can indeed "develop" Tool(s), in the sense that you make improvements on a Tool whatever you're level your Tool(s) is at. BUT . . . the only way to "acquire" a Tool would be through some sort of genetic modification or maybe through some other drug induced modification. "Acquire" suggesting you don't have the Tool at all to start with. But if you have a "Tool" at whatever performance level, the skill for it can be "developed" to a higher performance level. Some people are born with a natural ability for a particular Tool or set of tools. And though they have the natural ability, one still doesn't know just where the ceiling is for the development of it (as PGSTAFF mentioned). Some people born with natural talent aren't able to develop much more beyond their natural abilities and others will develop far beyond what they were born with (makes me think of how Stephan Curry was viewed when he was becoming a pro. I think the consensus was he'd probably be no better than just an average pro player. But he worked hard to develop the tools he had into something well beyond "average").
I'm not sure if there are any studies on your question, as it seems your question may be a little to broad for such studies (just my initial thinking).
