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Recent Articles Written By Paul Nyman

2008

Beyond Moneyball: Player development, Part 5
July 08, 2008
How do you find “talent”?

Beyond Moneyball: Player Development Part 4
June 24, 2008
Drafting and selecting players: an exercise in making good decisions.

Beyond Moneyball: Player Development Part 3
June 17, 2008
Selecting good players is making good player selection decisions.

Verlander and Bonderman: If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, Part 2
June 13, 2008
And even if it is broke, chances are you ain't going to fix it.

Beyond Moneyball: Player development Part 2
June 10, 2008
Why the MLB Holy Grail is unobtainable by most organizations…

Verlander and Bonderman: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Part 1
June 06, 2008
The Detroit Tigers have been a mess, in large part because of the ineffectiveness of Justin Verlander and Jeremy Bonderman.

Beyond Moneyball: Player development
June 03, 2008
The science of creating the unfair advantage, Part 1

Crossing the Bridge: A closer look at what happened to Barry Zito
May 13, 2008
The fourth and final article on the how/why of a pitcher's lost fastball.

Exactly what are effective throwing mechanics?
May 02, 2008
What the Lord giveth, the MLB hitter taketh away…

In the beginning God created heaven and earth…
April 18, 2008
... and along the way the ability of man to throw left handed.

A bridge too far
April 11, 2008
What's wrong with Zito? Not so fast...

"Paul Nyman has looked at throwing the the baseball like no other has. His unique way of looking at how the arm and body learn to throw from the most efficient way to how one learns to throw is truly remarkable. No one, and I repeat no one, has looked at more video, done more research and left no stone unturned in the quest of finding out about the throwing process than he has. Step aside and let you ego go for a moment and see what he has to offer. As a professional coach I did and it has opened up a whole new view for me. While I have gained my pitchers have been the ones who have benefited and in essence isn't that our job as coaches."

Brent Strom ( Brent Strom, former Major League Pitcher, Major League Pitching Coach and Pitching Co ordinator Washington Nationals)

"My name is Ron Wolforth and I own an Academy in Houston Texas and work with 96 pitchers on a weekly basis. I have written 3 books on pitching and consult for 19 other Academies, 7 NCAA DI schools and 3 Major League Organizations. Our school has produced 20 drafted pitchers in the last four years including Scotty Kazmir, Sam Demel & Troy Patton. We have sent 36 pitchers on to college scholarships in that time frame. In 2000 I was certified in the Tom House system.

I consider Paul Nyman the premeir expert in the world today on the science of throwing a baseball. No one single person has had more impact or influence in our teaching methodology and philosophy than does Paul Nyman. I hold him with tremendous amount of esteem and respect. Simply put, when Paul Nyman speaks...we listen. In my mind he has no peer with regards to understanding and explaining the way the arm & body throw the baseball...and that certainly includes Tom House, Dick Mills or Mike Marshal. His ideas have helped hundreds of our pitchers go to the next performance level AND create more durable and healthy arms."

Ron Wolforth (Ron Wolforth, developer of the nationally recognized The Athletic Pitcher program, Pitching Central, and The Teaxas Pitching Ranch)

Paul,
You are absolutely the best as far as presenting a pragmatic strategy relative to throwing the baseball. Your cause and effect explanations are not only science based but they make sense.Most of all they work.I have been doing this over 40 years and I think I know what is "eyewash" and what works. I have changed more for the good in the last three years as a result of interfacing with you than any other time in the previous 37+ years. The thing that I really like about you is that you are consumed by the journey knowing that the destination is always going to be just beyond our reach.Please feel free to edit this as you see fit and use my name whenever and wherever it will help you.

Jerry Weintein (Jerry Weintein, California Rockies, Los Angeles Dodgers, member of the California Community College Baseball Hall of Fame and Sacramento City College Sports Hall of Fame)

I have known Paul Nyman for approximately 5 years. My first encounter with him was at a pitching seminar where he described many of the methodologies that he currently uses to train pitchers. At first, Paul's techniques seemed radical and misplaced in what I knew/believed to be "true" in the world of baseball. After a 2 hour discussion with him at the opening of an elevator door, his techniques and methodologies seemed less radical and more appealing than before, and my sense of what was "true" in baseball became less believable. At best, Paul will change the way you coach and train throwers. At the very least, Paul will make you think about the way you coach and train throwers! Baseball needs more Paul Nyman's, that is to say, out of the box thinkers/practitioners who do not adhere to the "that's the way it has always been done in baseball" mentality.

Derek Johnson (Pitching Coach Vanderbilt University. Derek Johnson is now in his sixth season as an assistant coach for the Commodores and is widely considered one of the top pitching coaches in the country. Three of his last four three staffs have led the Southeastern Conference in ERA while also being ranked nationally at No. 15 (2003), No. 7 (2004) and No. 17 (2005) respectively.)