Leader | Educator | Creative Designer

Advancing Pitcher Development Through Integrated Strategy

🎤 Professional Development Speaking

Rick delivers engaging sessions tailored to two distinct audiences:

  • Baseball Clinics → Focused on advancing pitcher development through analytics, biomechanics, and mental skills. Coaches and athletes walk away with actionable tools for growth, clarity, and performance.
  • Companies & Organizations → Centered on the mental side of professional growth. Rick translates lessons from the mound into workplace insights on focus, resilience, adaptability, and long‑term success.

Whether on the field or in the boardroom, Rick’s talks blend technical expertise with emotional intelligence, leaving audiences inspired and equipped to grow.

🧢 About Rick

Player development succeeds when coaching, data, and technology align to serve the athlete. This philosophy drives Rick’s holistic approach to pitcher growth — blending biomechanics, analytics, and behavioral insight into actionable, individualized plans. Known for making complex concepts approachable, Rick mentors players, coaches, and front office staff with clarity, trust, and actionable takeaways.

📊 Analytics with Field‑Level Translation

Rick brings a deep understanding of pitch data, grounded in a strong mathematical foundation. He identifies and eliminates misleading metrics, ensuring players receive only what’s actionable and digestible for their development.

  • Skilled in pitch design using cutting‑edge technology and evolving ball movement tools
  • Excels in pitch usage strategy, optimizing arsenals for effectiveness
  • Contributes to Pitch Quality (PQ) modeling, refining assumptions for predictive accuracy
  • Proficient in advanced scouting, delivering insights at the right time for maximum impact
  • Known for mentoring players, coaches, and staff in a clear, non‑intimidating way

⚖️ Biomechanics & Tech Integration

Modern motion capture and force plate technologies have reshaped how pitching movement is understood. The pitching delivery is unique to each individual. Objective data needs to drive decision making on delivery changes.

  • Movement preferences, pronation or supination bias, and physical strengths or limitations should all be considered
  • High‑speed video, motion capture, and force plate data for objective analysis is imperative
  • Technical concepts should be communicated one at a time matching delivery to each athlete’s readiness and learning style
  • “He is his own control group” — a philosophy that ensures every pitcher’s improvement is measured against their own baseline

âšľ Pitch Design & Strategic Evolution

Pitch Quality (PQ) modeling enables coaches to evaluate the full range of pitch shapes a player can produce. Using ball tracking technology, Edgertronic cameras, and detailed analysis of seam effects, spin efficiency, and axis alignment, Coaches can help pitchers identify which shapes score highest and why.

The goal isn’t just to catalog pitch types, but to teach pitchers how they physically create their best‑graded shapes. This process builds a personalized roadmap for pitch development rooted in the athlete’s own capabilities, maximizing the utility of their repertoire through targeted, data‑informed training.

🧠 Mental Skills & Ownership

Mental performance is a cornerstone of sustainable success. Rick implements proactive mental training techniques to help pitchers bring their best self to each pitch.

  • Guides athletes in clarifying identity, purpose, and long‑term vision
  • Supports performance standards and in game actions (goals) that make those performance standards become reality
  • Centers communication on focus, control, and self‑awareness under pressure
  • Integrates mental skills into broader pitching systems, building trust through consistency
  • Collaborates with mental skills professionals, reinforcing their curriculum without overshadowing it

đź“Ł Invite Rick to Speak

Rick’s sessions combine technical precision with approachable teaching, leaving audiences with tools they can apply immediately. Whether at a clinic or a company event, he delivers clarity, trust, and actionable insights.