Blog Article, Pitching Trevor Rogers’ comeback is a classic Driveline success story – with some new wrinkles August 12, 2025August 12, 2025 Trevor Rogers heard the noise. Just weeks after last summer’s trade deadline deal to acquire the lefty from the Marlins, ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Hitting 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 7, 2025 In the spring of 2013, former Washington Nationals hitting coordinator Rick Schu was collecting iconic swings from DVDs of Ken ...read more 9 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 12 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
Pitching Mechanics, Research Why Sir Isaac Newton is Still the Foremost Expert in Pitching Biomechanics April 29, 2015April 6, 2021 This post was written by Dr. James Buffi. Most people have heard of Sir Isaac Newton and his famous laws ...read more 1 Like | 0 Comments
Pitching Mechanics Why Overuse May Not Be Baseball’s Problem for Pitchers April 20, 2015April 6, 2021 This post was written by Dr. James Buffi. ‘Overuse’ is being blamed for the eruption of Tommy John surgeries among ...read more 0 Likes | 5 Comments
Pitching Mechanics How Muscles Work to Protect a Pitcher March 9, 2015April 6, 2021 Let’s talk about muscles. Muscles are the motors of the body. They are the components that generate movement. They can ...read more 2 Likes | 4 Comments
Blog Article Driveline Seminar List for Early 2015 February 24, 2015March 22, 2023 After the release of Hacking The Kinetic Chain and an awesome time at ABCA, Driveline Baseball is hitting the road in ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Pitching Mechanics A More Forward Approach to Understanding Pitching Biomechanics February 23, 2015January 7, 2021 This is part two of three of the initial guest posts by Dr. James Buffi. Part one was titled Challenges with ...read more 2 Likes | 3 Comments
Pitching Mechanics, Research Challenges with Typical Biomechanical Analyses of Pitching February 18, 2015April 6, 2021 This is a guest post from Dr. James H. Buffi, Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. It is impossible to overstate how ...read more 3 Likes | 13 Comments
Blog Article, Research, Strength Training How to Pitch Faster: Using Rotational Lateral Bounds to Improve Pelvic Loading February 2, 2015March 22, 2023 The lateral bound, also called the lateral skater jump or lateral heiden (named after former Olympic speed skater Eric Heiden) ...read more 0 Likes | 5 Comments
Coaches Keeping Pitching Simple – Setting Artificial Ceilings for Your Athletes January 11, 2015March 22, 2023 At the 2015 ABCA Convention, the overarching message from pitching coaches and attendees alike was the idea that things need ...read more 0 Likes | 1 Comment
Pitching Mechanics Hacking a Pitcher’s Arm Action: A hidden power of overload training December 20, 2014July 2, 2021 This article lays out the case disputing “weighted baseball training being more injurious to pitchers than regular baseball throwing”, and talks ...read more 1 Like | 3 Comments
Pitching Mechanics Sequencing the 95 MPH Delivery December 15, 2014March 22, 2023 In Hacking the Kinetic Chain, we’ve developed a system that has evolved over six years of research and development and ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments