Blog Article Youth baseball is searching in the dark regarding workloads. What can be done to illuminate a path toward reducing injuries? January 29, 2026January 29, 2026 Everyone knows the problem: too many young arms are getting hurt. Everyone knows too little is being done to address ...read more 2 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article How high school pitcher Noah Coury added 20 mph, and used PULSE to build his workload January 28, 2026January 29, 2026 Noah Coury represents both a classic Driveline success story, while also being an example of what is next in data-driven ...read more 2 Likes | 0 Comments
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 6 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 2 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 15 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
Blog Article, Research The Impact of Seam-Shifted Wakes on Pitch Quality March 10, 2021May 3, 2022 In the months since our introductory piece on the Seam-Shifted Wake effect, many different wings of the industry have taken a ...read more 3 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 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 6 Likes | 2 Comments
Pitch Design How to Throw a Slider June 21, 2020August 25, 2023 Welcome to Part 5 of our “How to Throw” series: How to Throw a Slider. In this segment, we are ...read more 17 Likes | 0 Comments
Pitch Design How to Throw a Curveball June 17, 2020August 30, 2022 Welcome to Part 4 of our “How to Throw” series. In this post, we’ll be discussing curveballs, one of the ...read more 11 Likes | 0 Comments