Blog Article The Many Swings of Bryce Harper — And The One Swing of Nick Kurtz. How many clubs should hitters have in the bag? August 3, 2025August 3, 2025 In the spring of 2013, former Washington Nationals hitting coordinator Rick Schu was collecting iconic swings from DVDs of Ken ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Pitching Lets Not Kid Ourselves, Greg Maddux Was A Unicorn. July 19, 2025July 22, 2025 Many have heard the message shouted through the chain-link fence of a local amateur field or read the comments in ...read more 11 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article Off‑Season Speed Training for Position Players – Part 3: Non‑Linear Running May 28, 2025May 28, 2025 Welcome to the third installment of our four‑part series on off‑season speed training for Minor League Baseball (MiLB) position players. ...read more 2 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article Tendon Adaptations in Throwers: Mechanisms and Applications May 15, 2025May 15, 2025 Introduction It’s hard to find a more dynamic and physically demanding task in sports than throwing. Whether it be a ...read more 5 Likes | 0 Comments
Research Weighted Baseball Research and the Data Supporting Their Use December 15, 2016May 16, 2022 With the recent release of ASMI’s Biomechanical Analysis of Weighted-Ball Exercises for Baseball Pitchers we decided that it was appropriate ...read more 1 Like | 8 Comments
Blog Article, Programming, Strength Training, Youth The Path to Long-Term Training Progress and Adaptation December 13, 2016June 10, 2022 In the previous post we discussed the importance of a ballplayer’s first year of strength-training, and how to go about making ...read more 0 Likes | 2 Comments
Blog Article, Miscellaneous / Historical, Strength Training The Most Important Year of Your Training Career December 5, 2016June 10, 2022 While every year, off-season, month, and week of training is vitally important to the development of the athlete, not all years ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Programming, Strength Training “Core Training” – What It Is and How to Progress It – Part III November 29, 2016June 10, 2022 The previous two parts of this series discussed both the intro and intermediate phases of my own progressions for core/trunk ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Pitch Design Spin Rate Part II: Spin Axis & Useful Spin November 28, 2016August 30, 2022 Building on Part One of this series we’ll be looking at how spin rate actually causes pitches to move, and ...read more 6 Likes | 13 Comments
Blog Article, Programming, Strength Training “Core Training” – What It Is and How to Progress It – Part II November 22, 2016June 10, 2022 In Part I of this series we discussed the general importance of the trunk/core musculature to baseball and pitching and ...read more 0 Likes | 1 Comment
Pitch Design Rapsodo, Trackman, and Pitch Tracking Technologies – Where We Stand November 18, 2016August 30, 2022 Major League Baseball is now in the Statcast era, where Trackman radar is fully operational across all MLB parks and tracking ...read more 2 Likes | 4 Comments
Blog Article, Pitch Design Spin Rate: What We Know Now November 17, 2016August 18, 2022 This article is intended to build a basis of knowledge of what we, at Driveline Baseball, understand about spin rate ...read more 5 Likes | 14 Comments
Blog Article, Programming, Strength Training “Core Training” – What It Is and How to Progress It – Part I November 14, 2016June 10, 2022 In just about every baseball circle, whether it be those in high school, college, travel ball, or professional, you will hear ...read more 1 Like | 2 Comments
Coaches, Strength Training, Velocity Training Learning From the Work Habits of Professional Pitchers November 7, 2016April 6, 2021 There are a lot of reasons to admire and emulate professional athletes when you are a young amateur student-athlete aspiring ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments