08/24/2026
“He’s maxed out.” We hear it every year and it’s almost never true — what’s usually true is that nobody ever assessed him properly. Braden came in at 82 carrying that label. His arm strength numbers were well below where they needed to be and he was leaking energy at foot strike. We didn’t tell him to try harder; we fixed what the data pointed at. He’s at 89.7 now. Fall throwing starts Tuesday, September 8 — wiredbaseball.com/discovery-call.