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 4 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
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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, Pitching Mechanics How Do We Generate Spin? January 23, 2019August 30, 2022 With increasing accessibility to tools such as Rapsodo, Trackman, and Flightscope at all levels of the game, spin rate and ...read more 7 Likes | 2 Comments
Blog Article Technology, Communication, and the Future of Coaching January 1, 2019 No one can deny that baseball has undergone a drastic change in the last few years. An increase in technology ...read more 0 Likes | 1 Comment
Research Diamond Kinetics PitchTracker, Rapsodo, and Pitch Tracking Technologies July 31, 2018May 3, 2022 In previous blog posts, we’ve discussed spin rate extensively, including what it is, how it affects pitch characteristics, and how ...read more 0 Likes | 8 Comments
Research Kershaw, Sliders, Statcast: An Analysis of the Slickball Theory March 29, 2018April 7, 2021 Among talks of collusion, an ineffective player union and a growing discrepancy between contenders and non-contenders, this is as opportune ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Pitch Design Pitch Grips and Changing Fastball Spin Rate November 8, 2017November 20, 2023 We still don’t know much about why pitchers can spin the same pitches differently, and we don’t know that much ...read more 0 Likes | 1 Comment
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 7 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 6 Likes | 14 Comments