The overall ramifications of COVID-19 are much larger than the effects it has had on the baseball field. While life is far from normal, states and counties are slowly re-opening to allow for outdoor activities, including baseball. After going through a significant disruption to the rhythm of a conve...
One of the best parts about working at Driveline is the relationships you get to build with different athletes from all around the country. Checking up on how our college hitters did over the weekend is easily my favorite part of Mondays during the spring — especially when your long term athletes ar...
One of the more common “battles” we find ourselves fighting in hitting is how we think about practice. This is a topic I’m very passionate about. During my playing career, I associated practice, especially hitting in the cage on my own time, as a time to get “reps” in an attempt to “find my swing.”...
At some point in their careers, many baseball players have to spend time under the care of a medical provider. What we tell athletes under that care can have long term psychological effects that present themselves in physical manifestations. Traditionally, the standard of care has been to identify...
Stopped In My TRAQ I had a different approach as I entered Week Two of my internship here at Driveline. I’m not feeling like a deer in headlights on a freeway. I now have to navigate my own progression on a daily basis. At the beginning of the week, I shadowed Hetz during his swing design appointmen...
In 2017, we made many strides at Driveline Baseball in an effort to further our ability to help athletes develop. If you follow our social media, you’ve seen that one of those ways was through implementing structured pitch design sessions with the use of Rapsodo and Edgertronic cameras. The other, l...
Weighted balls continue to be a hot topic of discussion in baseball. We’ve written about weighted-ball research before, and with new research coming out recently, we felt it was time for another update. How We’ve Gotten Here Many years ago, a number of studies looked at weighted balls and how...
In our previous post, we laid the groundwork for understanding how much protein baseball athletes should consume. This time, we will determine the differing needs for macronutrients based on the time of the year and examine how best to consume adequate protein throughout the day. Let’s begin with th...
Before we talk about how much protein players should be consuming, let’s talk about what exactly protein is, why it is essential, and what is does for the body. The word “protein” comes from a Greek word meaning “of prime importance.” Proteins are made up of the following elements: Carbon Hydrogen O...
What is central nervous system (CNS) fatigue, and how will it affect the performance of my baseball athletes? Most athletes know what central nervous system (CNS) fatigue is because at some point or another they have experienced it. Athletes are constantly subjected to the coaching staff’s great ide...
