The Loden Sports Blog
The Loden Sports Blog will serve as a vehicle to provide thought-provoking content on athletic development, use-cases for the services Loden Sports provides, and news and updates on the happenings of Loden Sports.
An investigation of the fallacy of the growth curve and an objective illustration of how 2022 MLB Draft Prospect, Josh Hood broke away from an average athletic profile in high school to Outlier status in June 2022.
On June 9, 2022, Loden Sports evaluated the raw athleticism of Vanderbilt outfielder and MLB Draft Prospect, Spencer Jones. Spencer achieved a Loden Score of 9 – a feat accomplished by fewer than 1% of elite, physically mature athletes.
We monitored the power, quickness, and lower-half symmetry of a Minor League Baseball player on weekly basis over the course of the 2021 MiLB season. This is what we observed.
Take a look at how Loden Sports uses a simple, time-efficient athletic evaluation to inform talent identification processes.