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McKnight's Insights: PBR Super 60

Though the pandemic limited our national reach in 2020, our partnership with PBR allowed for us to safely test the players at the Super 60 again in 2021. For those unfamiliar, the Super 60 (2021 was the 19th annual edition)...
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My History with Vizual Edge: An MLB Perspective

Despite his background in history and theology, my dad was always an early adopter of technology and data. Growing up, we were early to bring a computer (and a Mac at that!) into our home, and as coach of our...
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The Effects of Contrast Sensitivity on Hitting

Like Teddy KGB, elite hitters are always on the lookout for clues to what the opponent is thinking and going to throw next. As I've written about before, pitchers get top hitters out mostly by disrupting the batter’s timing at...
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2020 Vizual Edge MLB Analysis - Part 2

In part 1 of our 2020 MLB analysis, we looked at the correlations of important statistics and how MLB players performed on their Vizual Edge assessment. In every component of our evaluation, it’s clear that players with better Vizual Edge...
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Progression in Sports Tech: Baseball Player Development

While my past 15 seasons in professional baseball were all spent in scouting, one of my favorite times each season was after the draft when I could go visit our minor league affiliates (or visit our instructional league teams in...
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2020 Vizual Edge MLB Analysis - Part 1

I’ve written before about how Vizual Edge differentiates itself with its longevity as a test used by MLB teams for well over a decade. With most of the top hitters taking our visual evaluation each draft (including over 98% of...
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How MLB Teams Use Tech: MLB Draft

For decades, the only sources of information used to make decisions in the draft were scouts and their reports. Scouting staffs blanketed the country, at times aided by the scouting bureau, bird-dog scouts, and any other local trusted sources they...
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Breaking Down the Edge Score: Baseball & Softball

Vizual Edge’s composite Edge Score represents a snapshot of an athlete’s core-six visual skills. While it’s a nice benchmark number for athletes, parents, and coaches to track and improve with visual training exercises, the components that make up the Edge...
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Recognizing Good Pitches to Hit

When you talk to most any pro or college hitter, they’ll admit that hitting is as much a visual challenge as it is a physical one. After spending countless hours as a minor leaguer trying to clean up the mechanics...
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Vizual Edge Teams Up With Baseball Rebellion

Vizual Edge, a leading research and development company focusing on visual performance training for athletes, has teamed up with Baseball Rebellion, a leading baseball content provider with unprecedented success in providing athletes with resources for development. Baseball Rebellion invests the...
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