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Using a Test/Retest Model for Position Players
At the end of each summer, players return from their summer teams or training regiments to their respective schools. Each player tends to use his time in the off-season a little differently. He can go...
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Debunking Bat Speed Myths
With the ability to measure bat speed and pair the findings to launch monitors and 3D motion devices, the claims on the relationship between bat speed and batted-ball characteristics can finally be...
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Calling the Right Pitch: Investigating Effective Velocity at the MLB Level
In a game transformed by the Sabermetric Revolution, where the most important components have been optimized and made more efficient, pitch sequencing has largely remained an art form resistant to the...
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Evaluating A Swing Using K-Vest Performance Graphs
With the availability of 3D technology like K-Vest, we can now measure and see exact body positions throughout the swing—in real time. K-Vest provides a basic report that displays a hitter’s kinematic...
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Foundations of Pitching: Driveline Coaches Certification
How can you, a responsible, growth-minded baseball coach, navigate a swamp of information on pitching development and apply it in a real-world setting? The heavily-requested “Driveline Certification”...
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Implementing the Axe Long Bat into Training
The Driveline Hitting Program is all about creating individualized programs to maximize player development. To accomplish this, we use several tools in varying degrees for each player, because each...
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Quantifying Swing Decisions: An Individualized Approach
Overshadowed in an age of attack angles, launch angles, and bat sensors lies arguably one of the most fundamental, and perhaps misunderstood, concepts in all of hitting: swing decisions at the plate....
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Validating Rapsodo 2.0: Pitch Design Made Easier
As player development in baseball continues to rapidly evolve, the demand from coaches and facility owners to integrate sophisticated, reliable, and affordable technology into their players’ training...
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The Complexities of Youth Baseball Development
Every year, there are many discussions on what makes a player good enough to be a top pick in the draft, a top prospect, or simply a top player at the MLB level. Inevitably, these discussions cover a...
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Using the Axe Bat Long Trainer & Speed Trainers in a Team Setting
More and more coaches across the country are implementing overload/underload implements into their hitting programming to develop their hitters. While the Axe Bat Speed Trainers and the Axe Bat Long...
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How to Be a Biomechanist with Mokka
So you want to be a biomechanist? Well, you’re in luck! This blog will teach you about Mokka, a great open-source software program used for kinematic and kinetic analysis. You can use it to start...
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Baseball Australia and TRAQ
One of the earliest users of our TRAQ software was Baseball Australia. We recently spoke with their general manager of performance pathways and athlete development, Glenn Williams, to discuss how they...
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Mastering The Axis of Rotation: A Thorough Review of Spin Axis in Three...
When we observe the trajectory of an incoming pitch as it is released from a pitcher’s hand, we inevitably witness the interaction of a pitch’s total spin, release angle, initial velocity, and axis of...
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Bauer Units, Pitch Movement, and Evaluating Pitches
At Driveline, Bauer Units have been used as a reference during pitch design since the pitch tracking technology such as the Rapsodo started to appear in 2016. We introduced Bauer Units in our original...
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Implementing Hitting Plyo Balls into Your Practice Plan
Intro The Driveline Hitting PlyoCare Balls have been a staple of our in-gym and online training ever since their inception. The hitting plyo set includes four balls of differing weights, similar to the...
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Full Signal Analyses: The Next Step in Biomechanical Analysis
Over the past two summers, our biomechanics lab has become the driving force behind our athlete training and development programs. We just finished the second summer, and are consistently impressed...
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Hitting Concepts: Visualizing the Why Behind Hip Hinge, Hip/Torso Separation...
Because our trainers love providing both athletes and coaches access to the best resources and information, athlete education has become a big priority at Driveline. Our athlete education initiatives...
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Driveline Hitting KPI’s
At Driveline, we want to make sure we’re tracking what matters. There’s a plethora of technologies available that can pull up bat speed characteristics, batted ball outcomes, swing kinematics, all of...
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This mini-blog was written by Micah Simpson, a 13-year-old baseball player. I signed up for TRAQ because my strength trainer, who I had worked with for six years, moved away, and I wasn’t able to find...
View ArticleTRAQ Series: Ottawa University, NAIA
In the month since we’ve launched the free thirty-day trial version of TRAQ, we have had a lot of schools and facilities do some great things with the thirty days. Jeremy Tecktiel, TRAQ Project...
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