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 5 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
Research How We Interpret Biomechanics Reports March 23, 2019January 8, 2021 In our previous biomechanics post, we looked at the data we had collected over the past six months. We looked ...read more 7 Likes | 0 Comments
Research What is the Value of a Prospect? An Updated Methodology February 28, 2019January 8, 2021 This off-season and spring training have seen a major upheaval in the number and type of coach that is being ...read more 2 Likes | 0 Comments
Hitting, Research How do Batters See the Ball? A Review of Gaze Research in Batting February 25, 2019July 19, 2021 As access to ball-flight data becomes more readily available and intricate theories of pitch/swing design continue to increase in popularity ...read more 7 Likes | 0 Comments
Pitching Mechanics, Research Biomechanics Rewind: A Look at the Numbers from the Last Six Months February 15, 2019November 20, 2023 This past summer at Driveline, we had more than 200 athletes pass through our gym, and each of them went ...read more 3 Likes | 6 Comments
Hitting, Research Pairing Blast and Hittrax Data February 6, 2019July 19, 2021 While the beginning of the technology revolution in baseball analytics may have started on the pitching side, hitting is catching ...read more 0 Likes | 4 Comments
Pitch Design, Pitching Mechanics, Research A Deeper Dive into Fastball Spin Rate January 31, 2019November 20, 2023 In a previous article, we discussed the difference between cues and measurements as well as how technology is changing baseball. ...read more 7 Likes | 7 Comments
Pitch Design, Research Laminar Express: Using Baseball Science to Enhance Two-Seam Fastballs January 20, 2019July 2, 2021 A “laminar express” pitch is a two-seam fastball whose term was coined by Trevor Bauer years ago when he developed ...read more 2 Likes | 2 Comments
Coaches, Hitting, Research Comparing Tee, Front Toss, and Machine Swings with a Bat Sensor January 18, 2019July 19, 2021 What Is Blast? Blast Motion Baseball by Blast Motion, Inc. is a motion-capture sensor for the bat that measures various ...read more 1 Like | 13 Comments
Research, Velocity Training Changing Shoulder Abduction December 18, 2018May 12, 2022 Integrating assessment data to help athletes is vital to what we do at Driveline. One piece of data that we ...read more 1 Like | 1 Comment
Research 6 Week Research Paper Recap December 14, 2018November 20, 2023 We recently had an article published on a six-week training program that took place at Driveline. The research paper compared ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments