Blog Article Optimizing Bat Paths January 15, 2026January 15, 2026 Every year new metrics are being made available to the public through Statcast. In the latest drop batting metrics were ...read more 5 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article An examination of Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s World Series Usage: Risky or perfectly safe and rational? January 10, 2026January 10, 2026 As FOX returned to its World Series Game 7 coverage of the bottom of the ninth inning back in November, ...read more 1 Like | 0 Comments
Blog Article Is It Possible To Build Another Nolan Ryan? We Give It A Try. December 18, 2025December 19, 2025 Leigh Montville was one of the few writers to get an up-close look at Nolan Ryan’s offseason routine. Prior to ...read more 10 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article How many fastballs should a pitcher have on the menu? November 26, 2025November 26, 2025 Logan Webb did a curious thing in 2025, well, a few curious things. San Francisco Giants ace had alrady long established himself as one of the better ...read more 3 Likes | 0 Comments
Hitting Rethinking Batting Practice with Release Points April 14, 2017July 19, 2021 We wanted to test out some ideas with our pitching machine and pitcher release points. So be prepared for some ...read more 1 Like | 0 Comments
Hitting Coaching Baseball Swing Mechanics Part 2: Application February 14, 2017May 16, 2022 In part one of this blog, we talked about the difference between internal and external cues when coaching hitters. Here ...read more 1 Like | 7 Comments
Hitting Training Hitters with Weighted Bat Training January 5, 2017August 30, 2022 Weighted Bat Training Program: how did we get here? When I interviewed for the position of Director of Hitting at Driveline, ...read more 2 Likes | 7 Comments
Hitting Coaching Hitting Mechanics October 13, 2016May 16, 2022 We have a Part 2 to this series that demonstrates how we use constraint drills and overload/underload concepts. We get asked ...read more 2 Likes | 23 Comments
Hitting Introduction to Driveline Hitting September 23, 2016July 19, 2021 The goals of Driveline hitting are: 1) Create a data-driven program for developing hitters2) Conduct research to help better understand ...read more 1 Like | 18 Comments
Hitting Bad Swing Coaching – Pushing Hands to the Ball / Extension Through the Ball February 6, 2012May 31, 2021 While perusing some YouTube videos of pro hitters to show my clients, I came across some more bad instruction (there’s ...read more 1 Like | 0 Comments
Hitting Fun with Myths: Hitting the Other Way (Jose Bautista) October 12, 2011May 31, 2021 Here’s a fun discussion you hear from your garden-variety hitting coaches: Successful hitters at the pro level look to go ...read more 1 Like | 1 Comment