Blog Article Constraint Based Learning Heuristics for Throwers February 4, 2025February 4, 2025 “Athlete specialization is narrow in it’s goals, but not in its means” One of my favorite ways to conceptualize skill ...read more 1 Like | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Research Impulse: The King of Performance Metrics February 4, 2025February 4, 2025 The world of player development is convoluted, with a litany of different systems and viewpoints biased from everything from biomechanics, ...read more 1 Like | 0 Comments
Blog Article From Setback to Comeback: How the Driveline Rehab Plan Redefines Baseball Injury Recovery February 3, 2025January 31, 2025 Recovering from a major injury like Tommy John surgery, a rotator cuff injury, or a shoulder labrum repair is one ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Coaches, Offseason Training Understanding and Managing Training Fatigue: From Theory to Practice February 2, 2025February 3, 2025 The question of how much training an athlete should do has persisted since the earliest days of organized sport. While ...read more 3 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