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🚀 Performance Coach @tread_athletics
⚾️ Professional Pitcher | Rutgers | Hartford
🔋 95+mph, 300+ D1 K’s, DM’s Open 📩
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I’ve spent all of my life in Baseball   As a player and a coach at multiple places and levels and I’ve had the chance to see the recruiting process from a lot of different angles.   One thing I’ve learned: Players and their families have a lot of thoughts and questions, but not clear straight-forward answers   That’s why I’m starting the GBA Recruiting Newsletter.   Send me your questions about recruiting, evaluations, communication with coaches, scholarships, roster decisions, timelines, or anything else you’re trying to navigate. Each month, I’ll pick a handful and answer them as directly as I can.   No sales pitch. No guarantees. Just perspective from someone who has spent years on the other side of the recruiting process.   Real questions. Honest answers. You don’t need to be a client!   Join the newsletter for $2/month on my site and submit your questions!   Glynn Baseball Advisory
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Charlie West signed up for Tread in July of 2025 with one goal: safely gain 2 to 3 mph.⁠ ⁠ He was coming off his sophomore year at UConn, sitting 87 and touching 90, heading into a make-or-break junior season, and competing for the Friday night job.⁠ ⁠ He won that job, then blew right past the original goal, averaging 90.7 mph and topping 94 mph a year later and getting drafted in the 7th round by the Dodgers. 🚀⁠ ⁠ Working through his early video, the arm action stood out first. He was uphill at foot strike and had to rip open just to get back on plane.⁠ ⁠ The arm was late out of the glove, and the uphill shoulders caused a low elbow and an elbow flexion-driven move.⁠ ⁠ The emphasis early was cleaning up that sequence and getting the arm on time and in plane.⁠ ⁠ The drills:⁠ ✅ Kneeling lasso: isolating 90° elbow flexion in line with the shoulders⁠ ✅ Lateral step ten toes: keeping the lower half open while finding separation with the upper half⁠ ✅ Pivot pick abbreviated arm action: staggering the lower half while holding that same arm position, helping him feel counter rotation with a level torso⁠ ✅ Rock back Janitor: feeling whole foot connection and establishing a posterior weight shift of the pelvis during the drive⁠ ⁠ By September he had already made huge strides, and the delivery kept building into a full arm action with rhythm out of the glove.⁠ ⁠ His outlier fastball shape remained through the mechanical overhaul:⁠ 87.0 mph avg in 2025 to 90.7 mph avg in 2026, topping out at 94.1⁠ Carry jumped from 22.6" to 23.1" of IVB⁠ Whiff rate climbed from 23.8% to 27.3%⁠ Chase rate nearly doubled, from 9.8% to 17.9%⁠ Extension tightened up, 6.2 ft down to 6.0 ft, as the back leg rotation cleaned up⁠ ⁠ Walk rate dropped from 5.8 BB/9 in 2025 to 3.8 BB/9 in 2026.⁠ ⁠ 2026 at UConn:⁠ 87.1 IP⁠ 111 K⁠ 4.23 ERA⁠ 1.420 WHIP⁠ Led the Big East in strikeouts⁠ ⁠ Charlie took the Cape this summer too: 16.2 IP, 26 K, a 2.16 ERA, and a 1.200 WHIP, leading the league in strikeouts before his final start.⁠ ⁠ He gained weight, nearly doubled his innings from last year, and stayed healthy the whole way.⁠ ⁠ ✅ 7th-round draft pick (LAD)⁠ ✅ Struck out 3 in his first pro inning
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"It's just understanding the amount of break you're going to have and where you need to start it." 🎯⁠ ⁠ Lawson McLeon (2026) recently de-committed from LSU and reopened his recruitment. He's been training at Tread HQ, fine-tuning his elite arsenal.⁠ ⁠ He's run his fastball up to 94.8 mph in-house, while this slider has averaged -7.6" IVB and -6.1" HB at 80.2 mph. 📊
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Change of plans… COMMITTED ✝️
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17-Year-Old's First 90 MPH Breakdown 🔥⁠ ⁠ Cole Cheatham has added 3.5 mph onto his peak FB velo and 4 mph to his average FB velo since joining Tread 8 months ago. ⁠ ⁠ He signed up as a 16-year-old sitting in the low 80s, having topped out at 87 a couple of times. As a multi-sport athlete, Cole brings a lot of natural athleticism to his throw and has great awareness of his body as he works through mechanical changes.⁠ ⁠ Upon his initial assessment, 3 main areas of focus stood out:⁠ 1️⃣ Clean up arm action timing⁠ 2️⃣ Separate the pelvis and torso during rotation (keeping torso closed longer)⁠ 3️⃣ Fix his lead leg block⁠ ⁠ Cole's plyo drill progression started with a lot of kneeling throw variations to clean up the arm action, and pivot pick variations to help him feel and unlock separation from the upper and lower half.⁠ ⁠ At 6’1", 185 lbs, there is still a ton left in the tank for Cole. This summer, we will continue to get after it in the weight room, continue our trend of cleaning up mechanics, and push for some output. ⁠ ⁠ I am confident that he will be able to climb his way up the 90s over the next year and beyond!
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Grant Manning averaged 92.1 MPH at Virginia Tech in 2025.⁠ ⁠ He was averaging 94.4 MPH topping 96 in spring training with the Washington Nationals. He's since set a new PR at 97 MPH in-season. 📈⁠ ⁠ Here's how a former D3 pitcher went from undrafted to signing with the Nats in under six months. 👇
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The day after high-intent isn’t only rest, it’s for reloading 💪 Tread Performance Coach and Rutgers single season strikeout king, Nate Florence, drops his day after outing recovery routine: -Full body foam roll -Foam roller reach throughs -Side lying t spine rotation -Cat cows -Side lying shoulder rotations -Shoulder soft tissue -Foam roller wall slides -Prone snow angles -Prone field goals Med-Balls: -Side to side scoop toss -Step back Chop / Slam variation -Wide Stance rolls -Shuffle Rolls -Bicep banded slow eccentric -Stationary Bike -Dynamic Warm up -Full Band Routine -OPTIONAL Catch Play, Football or baseball
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Jason Shockley spent most of his college career behind the dish. ⁠ ⁠ Yet, in less than two years on the mound and six months of Tread programming, he signed an affiliate contract with the Baltimore Orioles.⁠ ⁠ Here is the full timeline and program structure that helped Jason Shockley PR at 96.5 MPH and sign his first professional contract as a pitcher.
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Congrats to Jackson Wilkerson on committing to Florida International University! 🚀⁠ ⁠ After 1.2 innings pitched at Baylor, Wilkerson transferred to Vernon College (JUCO) and has racked up 59 strikeouts in 56 innings this spring. ⁠ ⁠ Throwback to this winter bullpen at Tread HQ! 🎥
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You’re killing tomorrow’s velo with what you do the day before. 📉⁠ ⁠ Keep the workload light, get your feel, and save the bullets for when they matter. ⁠ ⁠ Discipline today = velocity tomorrow.
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From D3 to ACC to MiLB 🚀⁠ ⁠ Grant Manning joined the Tread Podcast to chat about his winding career, development with Tread, and signing with the Washington Nationals out of Tread's 2026 Pro Day. ✍️⁠ ⁠ "From the bottom, but the journey's not done yet!" 💪
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Congrats to Brandon Ealy on committing to Tennessee Tech! ✍️⁠ ⁠ From 3 innings at Lindenwood University in 2025 to 52 innings, 73 K's, and sitting 93 mph at Kaskaskia College this spring. 📈⁠ ⁠ Throwback to one of Ealy's winter pens at Tread HQ. 🎥⁠ ⁠ #TreadFam
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