The search for missing pitches. Are we early or late in the evolution of pitch design?
In each recent season we have witnessed a trendy pitch proliferate pro baseball. We saw the sweeper spread across baseball …read more
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Revisiting Stuff+: An Update on Driveline’s Methodology to Quantifying Pitch Design
Introduction It’s been nearly 3 years since our first post explaining our Stuff+ model. If you haven’t read the post …read more
Remote Pitch Design
Improve your stuff from anywhere Remote Pitch Design to improve your stuff and dominate hitters https://vimeo.com/862489235/247a4fa620 Increase velocity and fill …read more
Executing a Remote Pitch Design with Online Training
A few months ago, F5 Sports and Driveline Baseball partnered to give athletes a chance to pair the pitchLogic ball …read more
Pitch Design: What is Stuff+? Quantifying Pitches with Pitch Models
By Chris Langin, Pitching Trainer The art of “pitching” has many variables associated with it, some easily quantifiable and others …read more
Optimizing Breaking Ball Shape Through Data-Driven Pitch Design, Part II
By Sam Bornstein, Baseball Ops Analyst In part one of this breaking ball pitch design series, we introduced a method …read more
Optimizing Breaking Ball Shape Through Data-Driven Pitch Design, Part One
Written by Sam Bornstein With technologies like Rapsodo, TrackMan, and Yakkertech reaching the mainstream in recent years, designing a specific …read more
Basics of Pitch Design
This course contains 28 videos teaching the in’s and out’s of identifying and teaching new pitches.
- Learn the basics of pitch tracking technology and the terms used to describe movement
- See how coaches can classify different movement profiles and make common adjustments that we recommend in gym
- All of our insight is backed by years of testing and utilizing technology in pitch design
Recent advances in technology have greatly changed the pitching landscape. While the technology has shown great promise, it can also be overwhelming. There are new terms, ideas, and context to learn before a coach can truly know how to get the most out of pitch tracking technology.
More than ever, players are looking for coaches who can utilize this technology to help them improve. But players and coaches today don’t need more information—they need to know the right context for what they’re seeing and to learn a system for making decisions.
This course will teach you the basics of the terms, technology, common adjustments, and decision making system that Driveline Baseball uses with our pitchers. We show how mechanics are intertwined with pitch changes and how even very small changes can make huge differences in pitch quality. We teach you our system for making decisions and thinking like a Driveline trainer, using the same course that we use internally.
Course Details
Driveline’s Basics of Pitch Design course is entirely online and self-paced.
Certifications are good for the life of the course. No coach is considered certified until they have completed the final quiz of the course.
Each video is followed by a short quiz. Coaches must score 80% or higher on the quiz to move on to the next section.
Upon completion of the course, coaches will be considered certified. We do not give permission to individuals or programs to represent themselves as “Driveline”, but instructors may represent themselves as “Driveline-certified” or a variant that is appropriate.
Coaches who pass will not be listed as certified on Driveline’s website, but we may confirm completion upon request.
Validating Rapsodo 2.0: Pitch Design Made Easier
As player development in baseball continues to rapidly evolve, the demand from coaches and facility owners to integrate sophisticated, reliable, …read more
Basics of Pitch Design Using Rapsodo
By this point, you’ve probably heard a lot about pitch design. But how exactly do we go about designing pitches? …read more