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Baseball.
Pro · Youth · Lifestyle. The whole cell.

Three load patterns no other major sport shares — high-velocity overhead throwing (the most-injurious athletic motion measured), ground-up rotational hitting, and short-burst alactic position movement interspersed with long passive recovery. Programming respects all three or it stops being baseball. This page is the cell — bucket × position × adaptation — parsed fractally.

Sport-specific entries · 4 Sport-tagged entries · 28 Last sweep · 2026-05-18 Coverage status · Pitcher strong · Hitter/Catcher/Infielder/Outfielder gap
Bucket 01 Pro · baseball 4 specific · 15 generic · pitcher-heavy

The pro-baseball stack is concentrated on the most-injurious position. Pitcher coverage is strong (in-season arm care, daily pre-throwing, shoulder neural drive, SLAP/periscapular endurance). The four other positions — hitter, catcher, infielder, outfielder — currently inherit from generic programming. Priority gap.

Position
Pitcher
4 entries · in-season + maintenance + RTS
ROUT-shoulder-neural-drive-pro-baseball-pitcher-banded-v01
WORK-throwing-arm-inseason-pro-baseball-pitcher-banded-v01
ROUT-pre-throwing-daily-pro-overhead-any-banded-v01
WORK-slap-labrum-periscapular-endurance-pro-general-any-banded-v01
Wilk 2011 · USA Baseball MSAC
Position
Hitter
0 entries · priority gap
Rotational power · ground-up kinetic chain · bat-speed mechanics · thoracic dissociation · on-deck prep. Currently inherits from generic max-strength + rotational generics.
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Position
Catcher
0 entries · gap
Deep squat hip mobility · throw-down power · single-leg load asymmetry · knee preservation. Currently inherits from mobility-PAILS-RAILS + generic single-leg work.
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Position
Infielder
0 entries · priority gap
Single-leg deceleration · lateral COD power · throwing-arm care without the pitcher's volume. Position-player arm-care is its own protocol.
→ 1 new entry drafted this session
Position
Outfielder
0 entries · gap
Acceleration mechanics · fence-aware deceleration · top-speed sprint · drop-back-and-catch coordination.
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Cross-positional
UCL preservation
0 entries · highest-stakes
Elbow valgus stability. Pitcher-leading but applies to position-players with high throw volume. Tommy John epidemiology in youth pitchers is the public-health story; preservation programming is the prevention layer.
→ 1 new entry drafted this session
Bucket 02 Youth · baseball 1 specific · 8 LTAD-generic · pitcher-only

Youth baseball is currently anchored by the pitch-count discipline literature — USA Baseball MSAC + MLB pitch-smart pitch counts + cumulative-volume fatigue. Travel-ball volume management and youth-hitter rotational LTAD programming are gaps.

Position
Pitcher
2 entries · load management
WORK-pitching-load-management-youth-baseball-pitcher-bw-v01
CONT-pitch-count-cumulative-volume-fatigue-youth-baseball-pitcher-any-v01
USA Baseball MSAC · MLB pitch-smart
LTAD strength
U10-U18
3 entries · LTAD-aware
WORK-fundamentals-strength-u10-u12-youth-general-any-bw-v01
WORK-learn-to-train-strength-u13-u15-youth-general-any-db-v01
WORK-train-to-train-strength-u16-u18-youth-general-any-bb-v01
Balyi LTAD · NSCA youth position
Growth-plate care
U10-U18
3 entries
ROUT-growth-plate-self-screening-youth-general-any-bw-v01
WORK-spondylolysis-pars-stress-youth-general-any-bw-v01
WORK-severs-calcaneal-apophysitis-youth-general-any-bw-v01
Position
Hitter (Youth)
0 entries · gap
Rotational power for the growing athlete — pre-pubertal coordination phase, then post-pubertal force development. LTAD-aware sequencing matters here.
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Bucket 03 Lifestyle · baseball 0 specific · ~10 generic · underserved

Lifestyle baseball is the weekend-rec, adult-masters, beer-league player. Real population, no sport-specific entries yet. Currently inherits from masters-aware mobility + medial-epicondylalgia eccentric loading (golfer's elbow protocol, applies to adult overuse throwing).

Adult rec
Weekend warrior
0 entries · gap
Return-to-throwing after layoff · shoulder preservation for the 35+ rec player · adult-onset medial-epicondylalgia from throwing volume after years off.
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Cross-applicable
Mobility + elbow care
3 generic entries apply
WORK-medial-epicondylalgia-eccentric-loading-lifestyle-general-any-db-v01
WORK-mobility-rom-pails-rails-full-body-lifestyle-general-any-mobility-v01
ROUT-overhead-athlete-shoulder-maintenance-pro-general-any-banded-v01
Masters 45+
Joint preservation
0 entries · gap
Shoulder/elbow/hip preservation for the masters baseball player. Joint-care + maintenance-strength + heat tolerance for outdoor leagues.
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Cross-cutting protocols

Protocols that span buckets and positions. Each links to the canonical entry that anchors the topic.

TopicCanonical entryCoverage
Throwing arm careWORK-throwing-arm-inseason-pro-baseball-pitcher-banded-v01PRO pitcher · needs LIFESTYLE variant
Pitch-count disciplineCONT-pitch-count-cumulative-volume-fatigue-youth-baseball-pitcher-any-v01YOUTH · applies to PRO without change
Post-game parasympatheticROUT-postgame-parasympathetic-recovery-pro-general-any-bw-v01PRO · applies to baseball
RTS criteria vs timeCONT-rts-decision-criteria-vs-time-pro-general-any-any-v01PRO · applies post-injury
Sleep extensionCONT-sleep-extension-mah-pro-basketball-any-any-v01Cross-sport · Mah Stanford basketball study
Pre-throwing daily prepROUT-pre-throwing-daily-pro-overhead-any-banded-v01Cross-bucket overhead athlete

The evidence backbone

No author names appear in Stack entries. The papers carry the citation weight — never the speaker. This list is the foundation everything in this cell traces back to.