This one is hard to write.
802 Baseball Lab is closing. After a few years of building something I believed in, the lab is shutting down. I want to say something about it before the door closes all the way.
We built a space where pitchers could work seriously. High-speed video. Weighted balls. TrackMan when we had access to it. Conversations about arm paths and spin rates and sequencing that went longer than they probably needed to. I loved every minute of it.
The guys who came through there trusted me with their development. That is not a small thing. When a pitcher hands you their arm and says "help me get better," you feel the weight of that. I tried to be worthy of it.
Running a baseball development facility is harder than it looks from the outside. The margins are thin, the competition is real, and the market for this kind of work is smaller than you would think. None of that changes what happened inside the building.
I do not regret a single hour I spent coaching there.
What comes next is still taking shape. The data work, the analytics, the AI tools I have been building -- that path is getting clearer. Baseball is still the thing. The methods are just different now.
To every pitcher who worked with me at 802: thank you. I hope I gave you something useful.
More to come.