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PDP Premier Mid-Atlantic: Grip Strength Testing

At each 2021 Prospect Development Pipeline (PDP) Premier event, athletes take part in all of the PDP Performance Assessment Evaluations, including measuring height, weight, and grip strength. The athletes' grip strength is captured in three different positions on each arm: straight down, arm at 90-degree angle, and straight up.

PDP Premier Mid-Atlantic: Main-in-the-Box

Man-in-the-Box is an important part of the PDP Performance Assessment and is a true agility assessment consisting of two levels. It is conducted in place of a traditional 5-10-5 agility shuttle and adds the element of unpredictability that is present in all athletic competition.

PDP Premier Mid-Atlantic: Dynamic Broad Jump

The dynamic broad jump involves an athlete generating their power as quickly as possible to jump as far as they can. It captures ground contact time, flight time, distance, and power generation as part of the PDP Performance Assessments.

PDP Premier Mid-Atlantic: Rapsodo Pitching

Rapsodo Pitching gives real-time access to key pitching metrics like velocity, spin rate, and spin axis. These objective metrics give players insight into their performance and areas where they can improve.

PDP Premier Mid-Atlantic: Right Eye & Hawkeye

Right Eye's Sport Vision Module gives players insight into their functional and on-field vision performance, while the Hawkeye assessment measures an athlete's cognitive speed of processing in milliseconds as they identify images displaying at varying speeds for accuracy.

PDP Premier Mid-Atlantic: Simulation Game

During each PDP Premier event, there is live pitching and live at-bats. Pitcher flight ball analysis (velocity, spin rate, pitch break/movement data) is captured during bullpen and exhibition game settings.

PDP Premier Mid-Atlantic: Diamond Kinetics & Rapsodo

The PDP Performance Assessment at the PDP Premier events utilizes both Diamond Kinetics and Rapsodo Hitting technologies to give players real-time swing analysis and access to key performance metrics like launch angle, exit velocity, spin rate, bat velocity, and attack angle.