🔥 What Accounts for “Talent” in Baseball?

Talent has 2 main components:

1️⃣ Usually bigger (anthropomorphically) and taller than the average

2️⃣ Genetic traits that allow for greater success than the average

For pitchers this is Glenohumeral joint (shoulder) total ROM especially the amount of external rotation; a positive sulcus sign; and high on the Beighton scale

For hitters it’s greater concentration of myelin coating in the brain, allowing for much better ability to pattern objects in flight

All of this is genetic

Here's the key: all this you have NO CONTROL over-so it does not matter to YOUR process!!

Many don’t realize how good they could become if they focused on the one performance trait you CAN control: developmental

Developing strength, power, and athleticism above the norm is what bridges the GAP with the talent that’s EVERYWHERE at the higher levels!!

-Fenske