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NY Post: Yankees’ new pitching coach Matt Blake ‘ahead of his time’

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“He’s ahead of his time,’’ said Kirk Fredericks, who brought Blake on as his pitching coach at Lincoln-Sudbury about a decade ago.

Fredericks was introduced to Blake by Eric Cressey, who created Cressey Sports Performance outside of Boston.

“Matt was very progressive with video analysis,’’ Cressey said. “He was ahead of the curve. He picked it all up from scratch.’’

Blake worked with players as young as 11 or 12, all the way to college-age and into the majors, using technology similar to that of Driveline — where the Yankees found Sam Briend for their newly created position of Director of Pitching.