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 4 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
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 6 Likes | 13 Comments
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
Blog Article, Pitch Design Spin Rate: What We Know Now November 17, 2016August 18, 2022 This article is intended to build a basis of knowledge of what we, at Driveline Baseball, understand about spin rate ...read more 5 Likes | 14 Comments
Blog Article, Case Studies, Pitching, Strength Training A Pitcher’s Long-Term Velocity Development: The Herbie Good Story August 21, 2016June 10, 2022 What follows is a deep look into the training history of Herbie Good, who built himself from a 15U player pulling down ...read more 1 Like | 2 Comments
Blog Article, Pitching, Pulse, Research Pitching Velocity and its Effect on UCL Stress Using the PULSE Sleeve July 27, 2016June 10, 2022 This is a guest post by Dr. Mike Sonne that was republished from his website. Dr. Sonne has a PhD in ...read more 1 Like | 2 Comments
Blog Article, Case Studies, Pitching, Strength Training The Reinvention of Casey Weathers Part 2 – The Importance of Arm Health October 21, 2015June 10, 2022 “It’s no joke to try to get yourself from 95 mph to 100 mph in one offseason.” The Bump in ...read more 0 Likes | 2 Comments
Blog Article, Case Studies, Pitching, Strength Training Uncommitted to Drafted: Christian Meister’s Year of Pitching Training September 5, 2015June 10, 2022 Summary In the 2015 MLB Draft, Christian Meister was drafted in the 29th round out of “No School.” He was ...read more 0 Likes | 1 Comment
Blog Article, Miscellaneous / Historical, Pitching, Research, Strength Training Post-Activation Potentiation with Weighted Baseballs September 29, 2014June 10, 2022 Post-Activation Potentiation (PAP) is a controversial topic in exercise science, with research pointing in favor and against it working. PAP ...read more 0 Likes | 13 Comments
Pitch Design How to Protect Your Curveball March 14, 2014 I was recently in Spring Training with the MLB team I consult with, watching a few pitchers throw, when a ...read more 1 Like | 3 Comments
Blog Article, Pitching How Wrist Weights Reduce Your Tommy John Risk June 27, 2013June 10, 2022 Longtime readers of this blog know that I am obsessed with technical and anatomical precision – and in many cases, ...read more 0 Likes | 5 Comments