Hamstring injuries are one of the most persistent challenges in professional baseball — and two of the sport’s top sports medicine minds are breaking down why. In this episode of The Research Rundown, Philadelphia Phillies Assistant Athletic Trainer Joe Rauch and Atlanta Braves Physical Therapist Jeremiah Randall dig into the research behind hamstring injuries in baseball, covering everything from off-season training and spring training ramp-up to in-season management and setting athletes up for long-term success.

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In this episode of Inside Athletic Training, we sit down with LJ Petra, Head Athletic Trainer for the Miami Marlins. LJ spent over a decade working his way through professional baseball before stepping into the head role in Miami, where he leads a young staff and is doing the intentional work of shaping a program's culture from the ground up.

We talk about his career path, how he thinks about developing the athletic trainers around him, the importance of staff relationships, what he has learned about himself as a leader since taking the job, and much more.

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In this episode of Inside Athletic Training, we sit down with Joe Myers, Director of Baseball Performance Science for the Tampa Bay Rays and one of the most credentialed minds in the sports science space. Joe spent nearly 15 years as a professor and researcher at UNC before making the jump to professional baseball, and that academic foundation shapes everything about how he approaches performance, injury prevention, and player development in the Rays organization.

We dig into what sports science actually means at the major league level, how Joe thinks about building a performance team that works alongside and in collaboration with athletic trainers rather than in parallel to them, and what innovation looks like inside one of the most analytically progressive organizations in the game.

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