Blog Article We don’t just care about bat speed at Driveline and Jordan Walker is evidence of that April 24, 2026April 24, 2026 There is no doubt possessing bat speed is a crucial trait for a professional hitter. The math backs the core ...read more 3 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article Investigating a mystery pitch as a test case for a new (computer) vision for pitch design April 24, 2026April 24, 2026 Tatsuya Imai’s slider was one of the great baseball mysteries early this season before he went on the IL. A ...read more 1 Like | 0 Comments
Blog Article To swing or not to swing, that is thee question April 3, 2026April 3, 2026 With the tying run on third base in the ninth inning, two outs, and the count full in the World ...read more 4 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article No one wanted to train more at Driveline than Trace McDonald and he’s making the most of it March 27, 2026March 27, 2026 In the seventh inning of their season opener at Cibola High School in Yuma last month, Trace McDonald got his ...read more 3 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article Click bait title on Command January 3, 2017November 16, 2023 Command is often discussed in a vacuum, either you have it or you don’t. In reality any discussion on command ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Pitching Mechanics Does Arm Speed in Pitchers Matter? December 28, 2016May 16, 2022 A common criticism of training using overload/underload implements is that training using weighted balls only trains arm speed, and that ...read more 5 Likes | 0 Comments
Coaches In-Season Training – Can We Develop and Win at the Same Time? December 21, 2016April 6, 2021 As we move into the the final weeks of the calendar year, it isn’t just the holidays that are fast ...read more 0 Likes | 2 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 7 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