Meditation, yoga and 30-foot pitchers. Welcome to 'holistic' spring training.
Before a day of baseball drills and practice, Mariners players sit in a quiet room to meditate and visualize their goals. “Right now, the next big thing is finding advantage in creativity and human capital," General Manager Jerry Dipoto said."Not only do we feel it’s a competitive advantage, but we think it’s the right thing to do.” By Dave Sheinin Dave Sheinin National baseball writer Email Bio Follow March 15 at 10:23 AM PEORIA, Ariz.
“There’s always a next big thing,” Mariners General Manager Jerry Dipoto said. “And right now, the next big thing is finding advantage in creativity and human capital … Not only do we feel it’s a competitive advantage, but we think it’s the right thing to do.” To carry this philosophy to its logical conclusion: Could there ever come a time when a Major League Baseball team brings its minor leaguers together for five weeks in the offseason and never once pick up a baseball? We don’t need to wonder. With the Mariners, it has already happened.
The ultimate goal of the"high-performance" camp, field coordinator Carson Vitale said, was “enlightenment.” “We all have different roles, different paths in life,” Carson Vitale, the Mariners’ field coordinator, explained, paraphrasing King. “But if we can all be the very best street sweeper we can be, we all have the chance to do something great together. That comes with a growth mind-set … It’s not something we just check a box to do.
To that end, the Mariners also initiated an exchange program over the winter, in which American-born prospects were sent to train at the team’s Dominican Republic academy for a couple of weeks, and Dominican prospects were brought to Peoria — just to experience the different cultures. During batting practice, the Mariners' Juan Camacho stretches with not only bats but with PVC piping. As the catchers squatted and practiced catching fastballs from an angle — originating 30 feet above — they had never before had reason to contemplate, and chased down the ones that got away, Arnerich explained that was precisely the point.
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