Ben Baggett

Looking to hire a young data analyst for KNCT Athletics.

Looking for someone who loves baseball, data, and solving real problems.

Responsibilities include:
• Building dashboards
• Creating digestible reports and visuals
• Organizing data systems
• Supporting performance insights and decision-making

DM me or email support@knctathletics.com

I don't do this a ton, but at this point I'd be remiss if I didn't publicly highlight current FA Brian Zeldin. 94-96/7 with 5 distinct shapes (2 fb's, 2bb's) and has messed with a 6th. Ivy League guy who finished at UGA last year. Savage competitor who lives and breathes this game

I poured everything I had into building CP and serving its athletes. I’m proud of the work we did, the envelope we pushed, and the progress so many made. That legacy will always mean something to me, even as I step into what’s next.

Stay tuned

So what’s a donor sport, anyways?

A donor sport is any activity that shares key affordances, action demands, or movement problems with your primary sport. It expands your affordance field— the range of action possibilities an athlete can perceive and act on, by solving familiar problems in unfamiliar form.

Think: same movement problem, different uniform.

The goal isn’t to copy technique—it’s to enrich perception–action coupling by engaging with challenges that demand similar solutions under different constraints. This builds functional variability, supports transfer, and encourages self-organization without over-rehearsing patterns.

Example: For football skill players, small-sided tag games train elusiveness, spatial awareness, and real-time deception without the collisions. Athletes must read gaps, manipulate space, and time accelerations just like they would when creating separation after a catch or navigating a broken play.

The movement won’t look identical but the intentions, timing variables, and attunement to affordances often are. Tag strips down the problem so the athlete can explore it with more reps, more creativity, and less cost.

Remember: transfer lives in the information, not the technique. Borrow freely, but design with purpose.

“Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own.” – Bruce Lee

Blake Brown (@B_brown_12) lives mid–upper 90s and has touched 101 mph at 6’0, 195 lbs while carrying 20–25% body fat through his midsection.⁠
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Does he throw hard in spite of that… or because of it? ⁠
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When you rotate at 95–100+ mph speeds, your trunk isn’t a rigid lever. It’s a deformable system— fascia, fat, muscle, viscera — all behaving with fluid-like properties. ⁠
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So here’s the why behind the ‘velo pouch’: ⁠
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1. Rate-Dependent Behavior
Viscoelastic tissues (muscle, fascia, fat, viscera) display time- and rate-dependent properties.⁠
-Low strain rates (walking, slow lifting): tissues deform and dissipate energy, acting as dampers that absorb shock and protect joints.⁠
-High strain rates (explosive trunk rotation): the same tissues stiffen non-linearly, behaving more like elastic springs. Instead of leaking energy, they store and recoil at the precise velocities required for throwing.⁠
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2. Elastic Storage & Release⁠
As the trunk rotates, fascial slings that spiral around the torso are loaded. This deformation increases strain energy within the system. At pitching-level strain rates, those tissues recoil elastically, amplifying rotational velocity and contributing to the rapid acceleration of the arm.⁠
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3. Rotational Energy Transfer⁠
Performance hinges on efficient rotational energy transfer. A more compliant torso allows greater torsional deformation (similar to wringing a towel), increasing elastic loading before recoil. Additional soft tissue mass distributes rotational forces across a larger surface area, smoothing out energy transfer through the chain and reducing localized energy leaks.