No skin in the game here either way. Just saw this posted from an ex-pitcher.
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http://community.hsbaseballweb...80#48037709939276480
Looks like the same guy and article....saw a "promoted" post from him on twitter today. Guess it's been a few months and he needs to make the rounds again.
My son has been using a weighted baseball for as long as he has been throwing. As soon as they develop a weightless baseball I will have my son begin training on it exclusively.
The problem with this kind of stuff is you can't prove its true or not. I think everyone has to use their own judgement and decide for themselves what works. My son has been using the Driveline program somewhat for three years after an injury and swears by it. Whether it's the program or it's mental I don't care he thinks it works and that is fine by me. BTW he's 21 so it's his choice. I personally wouldn't have my kid throw weighted balls or lift weights until he is at least shaving.
The article is fear mongering. He badly misuses his sources to go way beyond what they actually can logically support. He also bases most of his "conclusions" on a study that hasn't been published or released yet and was based on a WB program that was absolutley brutal, throwing run-and-guns 3x per week with WB's as heavy as TWO pounds. Actually, don't get me started. he and I have been going at it for four months now and he retweets this article every couple of days.
Plus, he used kids ranging from 13-18yo in the study.
The whole thing just read like a shot at driveline. Even if it was remotely credible when one business is attacking another I tune it out.
He goes much further in discussions, hinting with absolutely nothing to back it that DL athletes are all on PED's. He actually has a decent program with success (though his testimonials greatly exaggerate that success), but his credibility is crap. Not to mention, he claims a zero% injury rate. Not low - ZERO.