At the end of each summer, players return from their summer teams or training regiments to their respective schools. Each player tends to use his time in the off-season a little differently. He can go off to the Northwoods and play 70+ games, cover his windows with trash bags to get sleep in the Can...
Can we accurately evaluate an organization’s ability to acquire and develop players relative to their competitors? In part one of our mini-series looking at the overall state of minor league player acquisition and development, we attempted to answer that question by building a database of over 8,000...
As we’ve continued along with The Business Case For Player Development Series, we’ve attempted to evaluate and analyze specific subcomponents of player development in today’s rapidly changing landscape. These micro-level analyses have been useful in identifying the cost of inefficiencies that still...
Driveline Baseball Podcast episode 24: On this weeks episode of the Driveline Baseball Podcast Kyle and Mike discuss the theory and process of creating our data tracking software TRAQ and how it has become an integral part in us, training athletes. Kyle and Mike breakdown the gruelling proces...
In our last piece, we took a surface level look at the first publicly available pairing of Blast and HitTrax data. In this piece, we take a look at commonly held, specific beliefs that have been touched upon by our hitting trainers and see whether the data backs it up. We also take a more nuanced vi...
Driveline Baseball Podcast episode 23: On this weeks episode of the Driveline Baseball Podcast we have part 2 of the Trevor and Warren Bauer interview. In part 2 Kyle and the Bauer duo explore what baseball will look like in the near future as tech integration plays a bigger role inside the p...
For years, the game of baseball’s training environment hasn’t mimicked what occurs during a game. Throwing fastballs or curveballs every other pitch in batting practice hardly creates a random environment for pitches that hitters may see in a game. Though rotating between two pitches does get us fur...
One of the greatest benefits our assessment provides is how it better informs our staff when developing and implementing throwing programming. It is one thing for an athlete to have all of his assessment data at his fingertips and to understand precisely what was uncovered. But it is another to actu...
Driveline Baseball Podcast episode 22: On this weeks episode of the Driveline Baseball Podcast we are pleased to welcome on Trevor and his father Warren Bauer to discuss their experience using Edgertronic cameras to train and how their process has changed over time. They also discuss how Kyle...
In part one of The Business Case For Player Development series, we calculated prospect valuations for top tier minor leaguers and validated those estimates by looking at several trades throughout MLB. Building on that work, we use those valuations in this post to model the net-present value of impro...
