Blog Article How power ages (It might surprise you) October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 Conventional wisdom posits that power improves with age. It suggests slugging prowess is a rare skill that ages well, becoming ...read more 2 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Pitching The search for missing pitches. Are we early or late in the evolution of pitch design? September 22, 2025September 24, 2025 In each recent season we have witnessed a trendy pitch proliferate pro baseball. We saw the sweeper spread across baseball ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article In Search of A Smarter Pitch Count September 11, 2025September 11, 2025 There have been only two instances of a major league pitcher reaching 120 pitches in a game since the start ...read more 3 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article Off-Season Speed Training for Position Players – Part 4: Change of Direction September 5, 2025September 5, 2025 This is the final installment of our four-part series detailing the elements of the speed training program we implemented with ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Pitch Design, Pitching Revisiting Stuff+: An Update on Driveline’s Methodology to Quantifying Pitch Design May 31, 2024May 31, 2024 Introduction It’s been nearly 3 years since our first post explaining our Stuff+ model. If you haven’t read the post ...read more 19 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Pitch Design, Pitching Ultimate Guide to Baseball Pitch Grips January 10, 2022August 25, 2023 By Chris Langin, Pitching Coordinator & edited by Michael O’Connell Director of Education, updated 4/22/2022 Baseball pitch grips spark a ...read more 14 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Pitch Design, Pitching Pitch Design: What is Stuff+? Quantifying Pitches with Pitch Models December 13, 2021April 7, 2023 By Chris Langin, Pitching Trainer The art of “pitching” has many variables associated with it, some easily quantifiable and others ...read more 21 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Pitch Design, Pitching Optimizing Breaking Ball Shape Through Data-Driven Pitch Design, Part II October 12, 2021October 7, 2021 By Sam Bornstein, Baseball Ops Analyst In part one of this breaking ball pitch design series, we introduced a method ...read more 1 Like | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Pitch Design, Pitching Optimizing Breaking Ball Shape Through Data-Driven Pitch Design, Part One September 16, 2021September 16, 2021 Written by Sam Bornstein With technologies like Rapsodo, TrackMan, and Yakkertech reaching the mainstream in recent years, designing a specific ...read more 13 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Pitch Design, Pitching, Research Count-Dependent Pitch Quality June 13, 2021June 14, 2021 In the first part of the series, we took a stab at the what (which pitches), when (which counts), why ...read more 3 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Pitch Design, Research Count-dependent Pitch Profile Manipulation March 25, 2021April 2, 2021 “That’s my put-away pitch” “That’s my get-me-over pitch” If you’re a coach, player, or have simply been around the game ...read more 4 Likes | 0 Comments
Pitch Design, Research An Introduction to Seam-Shifted Wakes and their Effect on Sinkers November 2, 2020August 18, 2022 Chances are that if you’re reading this blog post, you’ve had the fortune of watching a Mariano Rivera cutter, a ...read more 18 Likes | 1 Comment
Pitch Design How to Throw a Knuckleball October 5, 2020August 30, 2022 Welcome to Part 7, a special addition to the “How to Throw” blog series! The knuckleball is a fan favorite ...read more 15 Likes | 0 Comments
Pitch Design How to Throw a Cutter July 3, 2020August 30, 2022 Welcome to Part 6 of our “How to Throw” series! In our final segment, we will conclude with a discussion ...read more 5 Likes | 2 Comments