For many years, baseball teams have employed rehab specialists to not only get players back to the field quickly following an injury, but also to help with injury prevention. In the past, physical therapists, chiropractors, athletic trainers, and others have worked with athletes at the highest level...
As a small or lower-level school pitcher or pitching coach, one thing that can be frustrating is the lack of resources available to create an effective game plan from game to game and hitter to hitter. You’d have basic reports from a coach that say things that can be discerned from general knowledge...
Driveline Baseball Podcast Episode 18: On this episode of the Driveline Baseball Podcast Mike and Kyle are joined by Pitching Coordinator Eric Jagers and Former Director of Pitching Matt Daniels who is now the Coordinator of Pitching Analysis for the San Francisco Giants. Matt and Eric join the show...
Spring training is usually a happy time of year. Everyone gets to look forward to baseball being played after a long winter. Unfortunately for the players, early season also corresponds with the highest chance of injury. Source: Epidemiology of Major League Baseball Injuries The above study shows a...
After looking further into fastballs, now is a good time to look deeper at offspeed pitches—particularly curveballs and sliders. We’ve talked before that one of the key parts of an offspeed pitch is how the spin of the pitch aligns with the axis. If using a device like a Rapsodo, this shows up as us...
Driveline Baseball Podcast Episode 17: On this episode of the Driveline Baseball Podcast Mike and Kyle recap the recent trip our staff took to Utah State to work with Barton Smith (@NotRealCertain on Twitter) to do some research on fastball movement. To learn more about the experiment click here to...
This off-season and spring training have seen a major upheaval in the number and type of coach that is being hired into the professional ranks, while the use of technology throughout all levels of professional baseball has increased drastically. This new level of investment demonstrates clearly that...
As access to ball-flight data becomes more readily available and intricate theories of pitch/swing design continue to increase in popularity within the player-development community, we can easily overlook one of the most arguably fundamental concepts of the game: how batters see the ball as it heads...
Jeff Passan– (@JeffPassan on Twitter) is a baseball columnist with ESPN after a 13 year stint with Yahoo Sports, and author of New York Times Bestseller The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports. Jeff joins Mike and Kyle to discuss the process o...
This past summer at Driveline, we had more than 200 athletes pass through our gym, and each of them went through a full biomechanics assessment. That’s a lot of data, a lot of arm paths, a lot of lower-half mechanics, a lot of kinematic sequences, and a lot of arm stress. From the information gather...
