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Considerations for Low Slot Supinators:

A Low Slot Supinator is a pitcher profile we use to describe an athlete who naturally delivers the ball from a lower arm slot and demonstrates a strong supination bias through the delivery and release.

That combination tends to create a specific pitch-shape profile.

We often see these athletes excel with:

• Running or sinking fastballs
• Running or sinking changeups
• Bigger, slower sliders
• Hard, short sliders

Where they can run into challenges is with pitch shapes that require different movement solutions:

• Larger breaking ball shapes at higher velocities
• Pitches that rely on significant vertical break

That doesn’t mean these pitches are impossible to develop. It means they may require more manipulation and adaptation than shapes that naturally align with the athlete’s movement profile.

If a pitcher can create these challenging shapes from this slot, it can actually be extremely effective and fall into an outlier category.

The goal isn’t to force every pitcher into the same pitch package.

It’s to understand how an athlete naturally moves, identify the shapes that complement that movement, and build a pitch arsenal around what they can consistently execute.

These characteristics help define a more natural pitch package for this type of mover—one that allows the athlete to maximize movement quality, command, and game performance.

Build the arsenal around the athlete. Not the other way around.

| Cody Fick

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More data doesn’t automatically make a player better. Better decisions do.

A data-driven program gives us a way to identify what matters, prioritize the right areas, and measure whether the work is actually creating change.

Because the goal isn’t to simply complete workouts, improve test scores, or collect more data.

The goal is improved performance.

When an athlete improves their physical capacities, movement quality, pitching metrics, and ultimately their game outputs, the individual gets better.

And when individual players get better, the team gets better.

That’s why objective measurement matters. If performance isn’t improving, athletes can spend months—and families can spend thousands of dollars—investing time and money into a program without getting closer to the outcome they actually want.

Every assessment and every training decision has a purpose:

Measure → Identify → Program → Reassess → Improve.

Because the end goal isn’t better training.

It’s better performance on the field. And ultimately more OUTS.

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Eye in the sky from Day 1 of Mizzou Baseball . Day 2 is underway!

PLAYER DEVELOPMENT DOESN’T HAPPEN IN SILOS.

Mobility.
Biomechanics.
Ball Flight.
Performance.
Arsenal.
Competition.

Each one tells us something about the athlete.

But the real value comes from understanding how they connect.

At Premier, our Performance Integrated Approach brings these disciplines together to create a complete picture of the athlete—and a clearer path to development.

We don’t assess biomechanics without considering physical capacity.

We don’t prescribe strength work without understanding how an athlete moves.

We don’t address mobility without understanding how it impacts performance.

And we don’t collect data just to generate a report.

We connect assessment to insight.
Insight to programming.
Programming to training.
Training to performance.

That’s what makes Premier different.

We’re building more than a training facility.

We’re building an integrated player development ecosystem designed to understand the whole athlete and develop every piece that contributes to performance.

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