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Adjusting Front Flips to Work On Attack Angle and Bat Path
by JP Fasone – Hitting Intern In a previous blog post, we looked into how the descent angle of front toss can affect the feedback athletes get, especially when hitting plyos. If your brain started...
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Case Study: Making Point of Contact and Posture Adjustments
By Andrew Cresci, Hitting Intern After playing the majority of his youth baseball overseas in Japan and Australia, Connor came to Driveline this summer as he prepared to enter his first year of...
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How to be a Complete Hitter: Three Key Areas to Improve
Written by John Soteropulos, Hitting Trainer Bat speed is king, but deep down, we all know there’s a lot more that goes into successful hitting. At Driveline, we’ve spent the last three years...
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Introducing: Driveline Advantage
Training isn’t only for the off-season. Competing isn’t only for in-season. If you want to make the most of your ability, the building blocks of the best training programs look like: Assessing to...
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Optimizing Breaking Ball Shape Through Data-Driven Pitch Design, Part II
By Sam Bornstein, Baseball Ops Analyst In part one of this breaking ball pitch design series, we introduced a method to calculate expected velocity differentials in breaking balls compared to an...
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Levels App: Continuous Glucose Monitors Review
By Spencer Medick, Pitching Coordinator At Driveline, we’re known for objectively measuring performance criteria, and making training recommendations based on that information. With an increase in...
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Training Posture and Forward Bend with K-Vest
By John Soteropulos, Hitting Trainer “I found out about Driveline from my friend John Soteropulos. We actually went to high school together at Loyola in Los Angeles. I knew I needed to do something...
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Youth Hitting: Comparing Wiffle Balls, Other Plyos, and Mini Hitting Plyos
By Chase Glaum, Driveline Academy Assistant Coordinator Across youth baseball, teams use a variety of hitting implements to get ready to play a game (or six) over a weekend. The key features of a...
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Free 6-Week Strength Training Program for Baseball Players
By Steffen Simmons and Daniel Comstock, High Performance Driveline High Performance staff members are regularly asked by well-meaning parents and athletes something along the lines of, “What is the...
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Hand Position and Moment of Inertia (MOI) in Hitting
By Andrew Cresci – Hitting Intern Revisiting a previous study on hitters’ grip positions run by Driveline Hitting Coordinator, Tanner Stokey, let’s look at these effects through the lens of bat...
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Caleb Thielbar: Coaching DII Baseball to 10 million dollar season
By Chris Langin, Pitching Trainer Caleb Thielbar was over five years removed from his last pitch at the big league level. At 33, not only was he on the wrong side of the aging curve, but the talent...
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Catching Development: Three key skills to improve
Written by Maxx Garrett – Catching Coordinator & Hitting Trainer Let’s talk about the catching position. If you tuned into what we’ve been working on with catchers at Driveline, then you know it’s...
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Speed Training for Baseball Players
By Sydney Jenkins, High Performance Intern Why speed training Sprinting is often overlooked in training programs for baseball players, especially pitchers. The benefits of taking position players...
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Thomas Ruwe: From not pitching in High School to throwing 98 MPH
By Chris Langin, Pitching Trainer “Why don’t you just play basketball?” This question followed Thomas Ruwe growing up. There’s not exactly a surplus of 6 foot 7 inch human beings in the state of...
View ArticleDriveline Catcher’s Velocity & Receiving Program
By Maxx Garrett, Catching Coordinator and Hitting Trainer What is it? This program is a combination of velocity training and receiving development for catchers. It takes you through eight weeks of...
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Pulse Throw App Updates
By Kyle Lindley, PULSE Product Manager What’s new? Two new features were added to PULSE Throw iOS version 8.8: Battery Level IndicatorsAdd Workload – Duplicate Day We are constantly working to make...
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What if We Could Make Throwing Rehab Better? Doing my dissertation at...
By Kyle Wasserberger, PhD, CSCS What if we could make throwing rehab better? This was the question at the heart of my dissertation. The premise: Pitchers are always going to get injured. Despite our...
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New to PULSE? Here’s what to expect in the first month
By Kyle Lindley, Sports Science Asst. Manager, PULSE Project Manager Workload and throwing routines can and should be very individualized—different players have different needs when it comes to...
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Ways to Improve Youth Long Toss for Continued Development
By Ben Harley, Asst. Coordinator, Driveline Academy Imagine taking your youth player to a Major League Baseball game. They would be excited to see the best players in the world show off the skills and...
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Pitch Design: What is Stuff+? Quantifying Pitches with Pitch Models
By Chris Langin, Pitching Trainer The art of “pitching” has many variables associated with it, some easily quantifiable… others not so much. Every pitcher, coach, and organization is constantly in a...
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