A great baseball philosopher once said: “Ninety percent of this game is mental, and the other half is physical,” and it has long been a goal of the game’s intelligentsia to optimize performance by melding the two into a perfect synergy. Buddy Biancalana, a light-hitting shortstop for parts of six big league seasons, believes that it can be done systematically through a program called Perfect Mind Perfect Motion. Biancalana, who starred in the 1985 World Series with the Kansas City Royals, talked about the concepts behind PMPM, including what differentiates it from sport psychology, and why it just might be the next big thing in baseball.
Baseball Prospectus
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