Overview
- A viral New Heights clip in which Jason and Travis Kelce mocked baseball conditioning drew a public rebuttal from former All-Star catcher Jonathan Lucroy on X.
- Lucroy contrasted weekly NFL games with baseball’s near-daily schedule and said the long season makes endurance a core need.
- He said pitchers run foul-pole “poles” to last deeper into outings and cited Nolan Ryan as an example of the method’s value.
- He noted that position players build base-running fitness in spring training and that game volume serves as in-season conditioning.
- He shared that catching 200-plus pitches per game equals hundreds of squats and said that can reach about 24,000 in a 120-game year.