Sports Product Review

Hey coaches: Are your pitchers the best they can be? Are you really able to fully understand their strengths and weaknesses, and communicate ways to improve effectively? Even if you’re nodding your head “yes,” chances are after reading this you’ll be shaking your head “no,” and making an investment in your pitchers’ futures.

More Than ERA, (www.morethanera.com), is a brilliantly-designed software program that is simultaneously simple and powerful – intuitive and intensive. Simply put: If you take your pitchers’ progress seriously you’ll wonder how you lived without it.

Want evidence? How about Oregon State University, 2007 College World Series Champions. Four other teams from the 2007 CWS, including number one seed Vanderbilt, also used More Than ERA. Five teams from the 2006 CWS used it, four teams from 2005, and four from 2004 as well. The results? Teams using the system saw a 25-40% reduction in team earned run averages. Obviously, improvement like that will win you a lot of ball games.

More Than ERA is the only system designed to help coaches teach the art of pitching through a combination of proprietary pitching performance software and pitching charts. What differentiates More Than ERA from other scouting programs are the reports, which allow you to identify and address situations or issues that face pitchers at every level in every game. The data compiled on each report focuses on several themes and provides a snapshot of any time frame you choose, so you can decide if recent performance is an anomaly or a trend.

You’ll get detailed analysis on your pitchers’ control of the strike zone so that you can teach them to throw with a purpose, as part of a plan. Detailed analysis of their ability to prevent runs from scoring will help them learn to close opponents out when they’re down, and endurance data helps you save arms and increase longevity. But that’s not all. You’ll also find out anything and everything you need to know about their control of the opponent’s running game, velocity, mental concentration and efficiency. While ordinary methods of tracking might be like a check up for your staff’s health, More Than ERA is a full CT Scan. You’ll not only know everything about your pitchers, you’ll be able to convey it in such a manner that they’ll “get it,” and make adjustments that result in getting outs.

And what about the youth league dad or coach who may not need the same degree of intricacy as the pros? More Than ERA makes a “light” version for youth baseball. If using this tool is worth four or five extra wins this season, then that could be the difference between “also-ran,” status and winning that league championship you’ve dreamed of. Travel-ball coaches will find it invaluable year-round. And parents of young pitchers can use the system to begin teaching excellent fundamentals and instilling the mental aspect of the game into youngsters’ minds early, which surely will give them a huge edge on the competition later in their careers.

More than ERA is a teaching tool that can emphasize what being an "effective pitcher" really means. By revealing specific areas in which pitchers need to improve while helping you to design practice plans, set performance goals and track their progress, it will ensure you’ll become the best coach you can be. If you’ve always thought you could simply evaluate a pitcher based on his earned run average, it’s time you discovered that there’s so much More Than ERA.

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