Blog Article Off-Season Speed Training for Position Players – Part 2: Acceleration March 25, 2025March 26, 2025 Part 2 – Off-Season Speed Training for Position Players: Day 1 – Acceleration Welcome to the second installment of our ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article Can the starting pitcher be revived? March 17, 2025March 25, 2025 The Pitching Paradox It was once commonplace in Major League Baseball for a starting pitcher to go seven innings and ...read more 4 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article New PULSE Upgrades Are Here March 14, 2025March 14, 2025 Five years ago, we acquired Motus Global and rebranded to PULSE. In those five years, we have been hard at ...read more 4 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article The Limits of Motion Capture: Understanding Arm Pain March 12, 2025March 12, 2025 Introduction Pitchers all over the world experience arm pain. As a pitching trainer, I’m often asked, “I have pain at X ...read more 6 Likes | 0 Comments
Pitch Design, Research Laminar Express: Using Baseball Science to Enhance Two-Seam Fastballs January 20, 2019July 2, 2021 A “laminar express” pitch is a two-seam fastball whose term was coined by Trevor Bauer years ago when he developed ...read more 2 Likes | 2 Comments
Blog Article, Pitch Design Scaling Velocity & Useful Spin in Offspeed Pitches November 16, 2017November 20, 2023 We still don’t know a whole lot about spin rate. While we certainly know more about how to use it ...read more 0 Likes | 1 Comment
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
Pitch Design, Pitching Mechanics Reviewing Offspeed Pitches and Elbow Torque November 2, 2017November 20, 2023 With new research developments in other labs and our own facilities, we felt it was a good time to update ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Pitch Design Basics of Pitch Design Using Rapsodo April 23, 2017May 6, 2022 By this point, you’ve probably heard a lot about pitch design.But how exactly do we go about designing pitches?What are ...read more 1 Like | 3 Comments
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 6 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 5 Likes | 14 Comments
Pitch Design How to Protect Your Curveball March 14, 2014 I was recently in Spring Training with the MLB team I consult with, watching a few pitchers throw, when a ...read more 1 Like | 3 Comments
Pitch Design Pitch Tunneling, Featuring Kevin Gausman May 23, 2013 From today’s game (God bless technology): What I said about Kevin Gausman in my 2012 MLB Draft Recap over at ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments