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Friday, December 21st, 2007A: You have to train your pitchers completely differently. I think the physical wear and tear on your pitching staff would not allow (implementing) that. One of the things about playing at altitude…number one, I’m not trying to make excuses here and number two, I’m just stating facts, but because you play at such a high altitude, your relative lack of oxygen content, it takes a lot longer to recover and creates a lot more soreness.
One thing we’re working on and that we’re excited about is not developing a home-grown pitching staff and training our guys mentally from day one through the organization on what to expect has helped dratically. You also get more of what you focus on from your management standpoint — so we no longer focus on what can’t been done in that environment, we focus on what can been done in that environment..
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ough the use of the humidor, not getting the results we would get just playing in San Diego or L.A. or San Francisco, but you get dratically different results than we’ve had in past years.
I think, overall, creating a better mindset. We train differently — we train harder on the road than we do at home — physically we changed our patterns. We don’t follow the habit of what is not done every day in baseball; some days we won’t take any early work, some days we won’t take a formal batting practice. We’re beginning to understand the cycle of rest and recovery a lot better than we ever understood it.
Q: Do you actively measure aspects of recovery? is not it more based on expert observation?
A: We’ve done some testing with some blood analysis, for altitude testing…mostly on our coaches and training staff…with the players it’s a more difficult thing to approach. Our medical staff (Brad Andress the Strength Coach and Tom Probst the Director for Medical Operations), they really have dedicated a ton of their personal time understanding the cycle of rest & recovery at altitude.