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...
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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 through a speed...
Catching Drills for Development: Three Areas to Improve
Written by Maxx Garrett - Catching Coordinator & Hitting Trainer Let’s talk about the catching position and some of our favorite catching drills to improve these key skills. To paraphrase...
Caleb Thielbar: Coaching DII Baseball to 10 million dollar season
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,...
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...
Free 6-Week Strength Training Program for Baseball Players
By Steffen Simmons and Daniel Comstock, High Performance What are the Best Baseball Workouts? Driveline High Performance staff members are regularly asked by well-meaning parents and athletes something along the...