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MLB Cardinals Say Player Performance Department Still In Early Stages After 14 Months

MLB Cardinals officials said that the team's Performance Department is still "in its early stages" just over a year after its founding, according to Derrick Goold of the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. The concept, drawn from programs used by European soccer clubs and Australian professional teams, was to "bring strength, conditioning, athletic training, injury prevention, and medical all under the same big top," and to have "data as the tent pole." Some advancements from the department "won’t reach the majors until players just drafted do -- but there have been changes beyond the improved facilities." Training approaches have been "rethought and specialized, vision tests expanded, sleeping patterns studied, and, later this season, the major-league team’s travel schedule altered." Nationals President of Baseball Operations & GM Mike Rizzo, whose team is trying a new medical data model as well, said, "We have an analytic department now, which we never had before, and we felt that this was a good supplement to that. Kind of almost anticipating, if you will, how to stop injuries before they happen. Obviously it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the more your best players play and are not on the disabled list the better chance you have to win games." Goold notes the Cardinals "still see the new department in the information-gathering phase." Dr. Robert Butler, who is overseeing the department, said, "We still don’t have a good idea of the demands of the game. We think we do. We count pitches. I don’t know if we think all of the pitches are the same, right? But it’s still a number." Many Cardinals "agreed to wear a band that monitored their sleep habits this spring, and there have already been changes that resulted from that data" (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 4/24).

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