Fun episode this week that gets into the nitty gritty of one of Driveline's fastest growing products - Driveline Academy! Had Jeremy Tecktiel, Asst Dir of Dirveline Academy (past TRAQ Project Manager for the software heads in audience!), come on and talk the tradeoff of teaching kids to throw and hit harder versus prioritizing winning as many games as possible at the youth level as well as the trials and tribulations of getting such a large and complex product off the ground...now in multiple locations! (WA & AZ) Also swapped loose stories of both of our mascot backgrounds and trivia triumps (or lack thereof!).
Timestamps:
0:00 Intros & Light Degen Talk
3:03 Jeremy's Background & Academy Product
6:05 On Field Challenges for Driveline's Academy Team...Sure we're hitting/throwing harder but how do we handle bunts??
10:20 Balance Value of Future Player Dev'l vs Winning Games Right Now
12:20 Communications & Expectations with Parents
17:45 Current Academy Team and Tryouts Construction
30:58 Driveline Academy's Unique Warmups (Which Plyos Do We Use?)
33:53 Value of Massive High Fidelity Youth Datasets (MoCap, Pulse, Blast, etc)
38:51 Jeremy's Background As A Mascot!!
41:45 Cara's Background As A Mascot!!!
46:15 Jeremy the TriviaMaster
53:10 Harry Potter Trivia Story + Extended HP Rambling
1:05:44 Driveline Academy in AZ
1:13:45 Training the Youth on Defense
1:17:05 Training Youth Command + Youth Umpire Stoies (Including Jeremy being tossed!!)
1:22:00 Academy Strategy on Breaking Balls
Twitterz:
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Jeremy Tecktiel: https://twitter.com/jeremytecktiel
Banger quad epi when ya boi wasn't on the edge of his seat trying to get into frame (made a snap decision on not messing around with the camera and was running low on time, plus figured Aydt, Stokey and Herzie were good looking enough to man the stage) -- we talked about a loooot of goodies from Herzie's experiences overseas, DL first impressions and running pro sales, along with the Hitting Dept MLB Hitting Product evolution and why smash factor balls are selling like hot cakes! And in a segment that'll fire up Kyle Boddy, Cara shares some inside Driveline Winter Meeting story memes... :shushing-finger-emoji:
Timestamps 0:00 Intros + Wine/Napa talk
5:20 Herz's background + KBO talk
8:00 Herz's Initial Exp/Impression with DL
9:40 Past Biz DL deals with KBO + Herz's Time W/ Dodgers
13:55 ChatGPT answers
15:25 Hitting Dept Evolution over last year
21:00 Driveline's MLB Product on Hitting Side
24:25 Hi-Speed Machines More Common Now?
30:15 Cara Tells Boddy's fave Winter Meetings Stories/Memes
33:55 Driveline's Advantage Plan Offering + Lars Nootbaar Success Story
39:16 Recovery/Health Based Approach to Coaching MLB Hitters
42:45 History and Success of Smash Factor Balls
52:45 Herz's Impression of Seattle
Twitterz:
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Tanner Stokey: https://twitter.com/Tstokey
Andrew Aydt: https://twitter.com/AndrewAydt
Josh Herzenberg: https://twitter.com/joshherzenberg
Had Driveline's new Director of Pitching, Chris Langin, on to talk how much the MLB Product has exploded, the overall department growth and responsibilities that come with being a Director, what pitchers are saying about the pitch clock and its effects + just how popular the Sweeper is going to get! Also check out the video version for Langin's beer bottle opening skills...we also made up for the podcast break with some very quality rural/urban parallel degen drink talk!
Timestamps:
0:00 Intros + Langin almost opens a beer bottle with his teeth!!
3:03 Kershaw Curve still dicing?
7:57 Degen drink talk throwback
13:25 Langin on animals + Growing up in Nebraska
19:00 Langin as Dir of Pitching
31:35 DL Pitching Dept Growth
39:45 How Langin and DL Pitching approaches MLB Advance Scouting
45:25 Insider View on MLB Pitchers reacting to rule changes?
48:30 BABIP Victims: Jansen, Brash???
53:30 Common Fan SSS reactions + NBA playoffs talk
1:00:00 Sweepers and Slurves as new PT's -> effect across the league?
1:11:00 Going out (not) in AZ...Angels GM sighting out in the wild?
Twitters:
Alex Caravan -- https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Chris Langin -- https://twitter.com/LanginTots13
Had Mitch Viydo, past Driveline trainee and Player Development Coordinator and Chief of Immaculate Training Floor Vibes. Shot the shit talking about his cup with the MS, winning the NBC World Series with the Seattle Studs, the upcoming rule changes (chatter puts the D more than the R in Research & Drinks, be warned), and some good ol' Driveline nostalgia reminiscing. May or may have had to make a couple of cuts in there! *insert that one emoji withe the monkey covering its mouth*
Timestamps: 0:00 Intros
3:00 Mitch Playing Background
5:37 Mitch with the Ms Organization
12:09 Mitch's career with the Seattle Studs
16:40 2109 NBC World Series Win + Brady broken rib
22:28 Hunting down the right location for the AZ facility
26:10 Pitching In Crocs
27:40 What Can Mitch Throw Right Now?
29:15 Hot Takes on 2023 MLB Rule Changes
36:15 Impact On Fan Interest
40:15 Shift Ban Impact On Strategy
45:35 How Cara Started At DL
54:30 Mitch Starting In Gym Ops + Driveline Nostalgia Talk
57:30 Mitch Contractor Stories (Behind The Scenes On The TF Product)
Twitters:
Alex Caravan -- https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Mitch Viydo -- https://twitter.com/mviydo
Had the legend Gary on -- will fill out this description more and drop timestamps when I'm not running late to a rendezvous (aka Tuesday morning). But v fun one talking about the research we've done on catcher framing, how Driveline trains catchers, the changing perception on catchers, Driveline's current Hitting Assessments and some throwback CR story classics from the Massage Ball to the Cod ;)
Timestamps
0:00 Intros
2:30 Gary's Intro to DL
4:25 Driveline's OG Hitting Environment
8:07 Driveline 2023 Hitting Training Approaches and Drills
13:08 The State of Catching Research and Training
16:13 Exchange vs Ball Flight Time
20:57 Low Hanging Fruit on Position Player Throwing and Workload
22:55 Do Catchers get the yips??
25:25 What's Hard To Catch?
28:28 Driveline's Behind The Scenes Framing Research
34:24 One Knee Getting More Popular?
38:00 Statcast Catching Metrics & Mainstream Framing WAR
41:22 Favorite Catchers + Brad Penny callback
45:10 Driveline Customer Relations Legendary Stories
57:50 Force Plates re: DL Hitting
Twitters: Alex Caravan -- https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan Maxx Garrett -- https://twitter.com/XX_Garrett
A bit of a different pod this week -- had my friend and colleague-in-data Jason Lieb of MMAI Fight Analytics, or the early Driveline (data-driven disruptor) of MMA on. Jason's been leading the drive on investigative journaling in the seedy world of the fight business as well as deep data dives in strike by strike analysis -> we've collaborated in the past on some MMA data analysis, but we spent a good chunk of this wide ranging podcast talking about the UFC's gambling problem, modern day loopholes in MMA regulation, an in depth look at Jon Jones's career and this weekend's return against past UFC Heavyweight Interim Champ Cyril Gane, as well as a lightning fast breakdown of the rest of UFC 285. Meant to talk more baseball but had too much fun chopping it up on the UFC side and ran out of time -- let me know what you guys think of this episode and if you're interested in more cross-sports pods!
Timestamps:
0:00 Intros
1:27 Jason starting MMAI + MVP Machine Inspiration
4:00 The UFC's Gambling Problem
14:00 UFC Wild West
20:13 UFC Turning 30 + Back to Gambling Problem and USADA Legitimacy
26:50 Conor McGregor Transformation + Chandler Fight Prediction
36:05 Jiri record breaking USADA tests
37:32 Jon Jones's Return
41:35 Jason's breakdown of Jones's style and progression
57:53 Jones/Gane Prediction
1:01:20 Future of UFC Heavyweight Division
1:04:20 UFC 285 Picks
Twitters:
Alex Caravan -- https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Jason Leib -- https://twitter.com/mmai_analytics
Had the homie Josh Hejka on, victim of a Franchy Cordero 116+ EV batted ball, along with all the other current titles he holds in the title of this episode. Hejka's one of the smartest, most self-aware players I know, chill af to sit down with him and hear him riff bluntly on the state of analytics in minor league baseball, his experience going through rehab, and adding to his always evolving arsenal. Enjoy and let me know if you enjoy the player episodes, will try to have a bunch more here soon.
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
2:05 Why Hejka Got TJ
3:25 How Hejka Became A Sidearmer + Cara Weird Flex on Middle School SATs
6:48 How Hejka's Arsenal Changed Over The Years
8:05 Being Deep Into Analytics & Tech and Applying It To Your Own Playing Career 1
2:10 'Pitch Design'ing Hejka's New Slider
14:05 Hejka's Last year: A+ to AA to AAA
15:58 MiLB Life Grind Stories
23:30 Getting Hot Quick
26:15 Current Baseball Players' Understanding of Tech and Analytics
29:15 What has Hejka Learned From Analyst POV?
30:45 Day to day rehab right now
31:55 Advanced Scouting Deliverables
35:17 Detroit Sports
40:48 Traumatizing At Bat against Franchy Cordero
Had Kyle Wasserberg (Driveline Principal Sports Scientist) on -- talked new direction of sports science, the new intern class, Driveline markerless biomechanics sabermetric models, and the upcoming SABR presentation (March 11; Phoenix, AZ) as well as a recent conference presentation Wass hit last week! (Also ya boi's gonna try to snag a bunch of in-person pods at SABR so if you want to be on or link up drop me a line on Twitter!) Also...cat fans may want to tune in for this one is all I'll say ;)
P.S. Little bit of background audio noise when Wass is talking here and there -- sorry! Will be more on top of it going forward
Timestamps:
0:00 Intros + Light Degen Drink Talk
3:40 Sports Sci Incoming Intern Class
7:02 Markerless Biomech Models: Deception, Mechanic Similarity, Pitch Tipping
17:00 Sports Sci Marker Gap Detection Work
22:10 SABR Presentation Talk + ISBS Conference Recap
23:38 Conference Slides Screensharing Starts
31:55 Star Wars Talk
34:25 Live Gameplanning for SABR Presentation
37:10 Driveline Markerless Lab Updates?
40:45 SABR Speaker List + Saturday Morning Presentation Time Prep
44:40 Hockey Talk
Follow the homies' twitters:
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Kyle Wasserberger: https://twitter.com/kww_DL
Well...changing of the guard :cry-emjo:. Ya boi is manning this pod w/o his past vaunted co-hosts, let's see how this ish goes! First episode back had the new heads of Driveline R&D: Kyle Boddy, Max Engelbrekt, and Garrett York. Talked shift in vision and focus of both the pod and Driveline Research and Development, TRAQ in Australia, OpenBiomechanics, plus some department hiring updates.
Link to the OpenBiomechanics Repo: https://github.com/drivelineresearch/openbiomechanics
Timestamps:
0:00 Intros + Host Change
1:50 New R&D Direction
8:45 Max's Australia Trip and Expanding TRAQ around the globe
12:05 Boddy's Sports Science Vision (Gap Detection, Forward Dynamics)
18:15 Caravan and Wasserberger SABR presentation + Open Biomechanics
21:45 Other tech OpenSource data to follow
24:50 TRAQ In-season focus
28:00 Mobile Development Future
31:05 Looking back on initial TRAQ vision
34:15 Driveline EDGE (Paid and Free) plans
37:10 Driveline EDU product stack
38:45 Driveline Sports Science Intern Class
41:48 Driveline Data Science Hiring Process Update + ChatGPT applicant story
46:40 Max just put a ring on it??
Follow the homies' twitters:
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Kyle Boddy: https://twitter.com/drivelinebases
Max Engelbrekt: https://twitter.com/maxengelbrekt
Garrett York: https://twitter.com/GarrettYork31
Episode 90 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guests: Alex Harter and Max Engelbrekt! Use promo code: good2learn25 for $25 off on Driveline PLUS! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/product/plus-subscription/
Today we have Director of Pitching Bill Hezel and Coordinator of Player Development Analytics David Besky on the podcast to talk new Plyoballs that are being released, how they can be used to better individualize training and achieve better results, the tools we've created to determine which weights each player should throw, and some general updates on in-gym training + second half predictions!
Good episode talking a lot about player development plan individualization, enjoy!
Timestamps
0:00 Intros
Link to the hosts' Twitters:
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Bill Hezel: https://twitter.com/billhezel
David Besky: https://twitter.com/David_Besky
With a couple guests/host replacements: Armando Benavides, Max Dutto and Juan Rodriguez!
Use promo code: good2learn25 for $25 off on Driveline PLUS! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/pro...
Caravan and Juan got invited by Armando on a Latin Baseball podcast a couple months ago so we had to return the favor when Armando was in town! (Said podcast link is here with the Driveline section timestamped -- https://youtu.be/mEEibo2hVag?t=1829)
This episode we talked big picture approach to bringing modern player development research to international markets and delved into Armando's real, raw experiences growing up playing baseball in Cuba; Juan's efforts to spread Driveline ESPAÑOL (https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/es-blog/), and Dutto's view on pushing education in expanding markets! A lot to chew on, scope the timestamps.
Timestamps
0:00 Intros
1:45 SwingCompleto Podcast & Reaction
6:50 Juan Exp w/ Latin Baseball Community
9:15 Introducing New Athletes to Driveline
12:20 What Color Plyo Did Armando Throw?
14:00 Player Devl When Growing Up W/o Tech or Coaching
16:00 HP/S&C in Latin America
22:40 Biggest Current Blockers in Latin American Player Dev'l
30:05 Blockers Consulting In International Landscapes
32:45 Best Way To Reach International Markets (Right Now)
38:00 Rachel Balkovec Running S&C In DR
40:50 MLB Teams Optimizing International Scouting
48:55 Armando's Early Seattle Impression!!
Link to the hosts' Twitters:
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Max Dutto: https://twitter.com/MaxDutto_
Juan Rodriguez: https://twitter.com/jcrod22
Armando Benavides: https://twitter.com/ElMoroSince99
Episode 88 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With a couple guests: Meet the Interns Summer 2022 Interns!!
Use promo code: good2learn25 for $25 off on Driveline PLUS! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/pro...
Got a bunch of the Driveline R&D Summer Interns -- Ethan Siegel, Alfredo Suarez and Jean An from Data Science + Baylor Fish from Sports Science. Hit a curveball q for each intern...scope the timestamps below!
Timestamps
0:00 Intros
1:38 Ethan Siegel
2:30 Pitching for MIT
4:40 Gamifying Command + IZ Data
10:40 Pulse In-Season
12:45 Seattle Studs Championship W
15:10 Brady's Trick to Avoid Walking
18:35 Siegel's Pool Rankings
20:30 Baylor Fish + ECU Super Regional Talk
22:25 Baylor's Fave State To Live In
23:50 ECU Lab vs Driveline Lab
30:10 Baylor Hearing of Driveline
31:30 Alfredo Suarez
33:07 NCAA Transfer Portal
38:10 Alfredo's Experience Working w/ Penn State
40:30 Job App for Penn State Analytics
41:10 College Analysts' Community
42:20 Alfredo's Surprise from being at Driveline
46:20 Jean An
48:35 SABR Diamond Dollars
56:05 Jean Commentating CPBL Games
58:20 Discourse of Modern Analytics in Sports
Link to the hosts' Twitters:
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Ethan Siegel: https://twitter.com/ethansiegel22
Baylor Fish: https://twitter.com/BayFish03
Alfredo Suarez: https://twitter.com/aesuare
Jean An: https://twitter.com/anchengyoung42
Episode 87 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guests: Vicram Kotecha! Use promo code: good2learn25 for $25 off on Driveline PLUS! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/product/plus-subscription/
Timestamps
0:00 Intros
1:04 Vic's background and UK v US
7:00 How Vic found Driveline
11:00 Vic shoots his shot for the Islanders
14:50 Vic's experience with advanced stats
17:30 Differences working in sports start-up vs large finance companies
21:00 Software Engineering practices
23:00 Vic sdding Driveline slang to lexicon
27:20 Hockey (v baseball) stats/tech advancements
35:50 S/o Colorado Avs 2022 Champs!!!
42:55 Vic in Seattle
45:15 Value of bringing in outside POV to Driveline
Link to the hosts' Twitters:
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
(twitter-less) Vicram Kotecha: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vicramkotecha/
Episode 86 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guests: Kyle Boddy and Marek Ramilo! Use promo code: good2learn25 for $25 off on Driveline PLUS! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/product/plus-subscription/
Banger episode as Caravan, Boddy and Marek riff about the current state of sabermetrics in baseball, where certain teams are gaining edges and how to tell from a 3rd party point of view and broad thoughts on the future of the player development industry as a whole. Boddy also namedrops dozens of people, Caravan tells 1 or 2 unsolicited stories and Marek brings that quant trading background to give us some validity ;) - enjoy!
Timestamps: 0:00 Intros
1:50 Marek background
5:30 Current State of Sabermetrics in Baseball
8:05 Next Steps in Sabermetrics
10:30 Misinformation in Current Sabermetrics?
17:25 Catcher Value
19:20 Organization Value by MiLB success?
25:50 CopyCat SSW value & Stuff+ Distributions
30:15 Baseline Models & DL Growth Mentality
34:50 Position Players 2 Pitchers + Undrafted FA's
44:05 Value of Utility Players
46:35 Walking Trea on 1-2 Count
48:15 How Old School Baseball Still Is
56:00 PULSE & Workload Mgmt in The Bigs
1:05:03 Moneyball Ubiquity
1:09:05 Casino Night
1:11:30 Boddy's Perspective on DL Automation
1:16:45 Marek's DL First Impression
1:18:05 MLB Future Rule Adjustments
Link to the hosts' Twitters:
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Kyle Boddy: https://twitter.com/drivelinebases
Marek Ramilo: https://twitter.com/marekramilo
Episode 85 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guests: Alex Harter and Max Engelbrekt! Use promo code: good2learn25 for $25 off on Driveline PLUS! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/product/plus-subscription/
Today Middlebury pitching coach Alex Harter joined us as a guest as well as Max Engelbrekt as a fill-in co-host for the pod! Anthony and Alex had some travel conflicts that we couldn't end up working around, but we are back with a banger. Alex talks about how he got into Driveline, some things he learned throughout his time here, how he translated those things to his work coaching at Middlebury, and how they put together a historical season out there in Vermont. Harter is an awesome guy and has some really good insight into how he was able to workaround quite the set of constraints going into a season with very little lead time. Max is just a homie and former podcast guest AND a college baseball fanatic who we were fired up to have join us this episode. Enjoy!
Timestamps
0:00 Intros
Link to the hosts' Twitters:
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Alex Harter: https://twitter.com/aharter15
Max Engelbrekt: https://twitter.com/maxengelbrekt
Episode 84 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guests: Andrew Aydt and Tanner Stokey! Use promo code: good2learn25 for $25 off on Driveline PLUS!
https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/product/plus-subscription/
Director of Hitting Tanner Stokey and Hitting Coordinator Andrew Aydt joined us on the podcast to talk hitting. We spent a lot of time on this episode talking about the growth of Driveline training that now includes advanced in-season support, and we also talked about how to improve hitting training environments, how training changes based on time of year, and how we approach training bat to ball skills and bat path. Enjoy!
Timestamps
0:00 Intros
6:40 Aydt's road to Driveline
13:43 Stokey's road to Driveline
24:20 What is Driveline?
27:56 In-season training
30:36 "Driveline guys" back then
31:15 Progression of Driveline hitting since 2017
32:25 Using the Big 3 to individualize training
40:00 Biggest unlock for Driveline hitting
45:40 Data making you better at not needing data
50:39 Coaching characteristics that we hire for
55:31 Where Ecological Dynamics could go wrong in hitting
58:12 The value of year-round training (Advantage Plan)
1:00:27 Mastering the correct training environment
1:02:18 Chasing bat path instead over attack angle
1:06:12 Smash Factor Balls & Training bat to ball skills
Link to the hosts' Twitters:
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Tanner Stokey: https://twitter.com/Tstokey
Andrew Aydt: https://twitter.com/AndrewAydt
Episode 83 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guests: Brice Crider and Juan Rodriguez! Use promo code: good2learn25 for $25 off on Driveline PLUS! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/pro...
High performance trainer Brice Crider and throwing trainer Juan Rodriguez came on the pod today and chatted all things integrated baseball development! We talked about the keys to balancing strength and conditioning needs with the athlete's needs on the throwing/hitting/skills side of things, what we use to determine where the focus is for each athlete coming in, what it means to be a high performance trainer as opposed to just a strength and conditioning coach, etc. Electric show today, enjoy!
Timestamps
0:00 Intros
6:26 Brice and Juan's first introductions to Driveline
8:52 Juan's hitting lessons pre-Driveline
10:52 Throwing trainers Brady and Lindley
11:45 Brady's arm slot switch
17:20 Training economy between S&C and Throwing
18:38 Focusing on what will have the highest ROI
19:10 High Performance training model
23:04 The difference between a strength trainer and a high performance trainer
25:57 Bench press for pitch design
32:51 What makes a great strength coach
36:18 Considerations for the focus of an athlete's program
42:50 The importance of knowing an athlete's throwing history
45:35 Training duration considerations
48:10 Things that would've been better, looking back
52:23 Data and education tools for developing coaches
1:00:53 Learning to think critically vs. memorizing and re-distributing info
1:05:13 The value of "I Don't Know"
1:07:12 It depends
1:11:05 summer training environment
Link to the hosts'/guests' Twitters:
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Brice Crider: https://twitter.com/BriceCrider
Juan Rodriguez: https://twitter.com/jcrod22
Episode 82 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guest: Alyson Mitchell!
Use promo code: good2learn25 for $25 off on Driveline PLUS! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/pro...
We got InfieldFlyGrl aka the Commissioner of the Aggressively Online Baseball League on this one soooo the boys sit back and learn about the Rakuten Monkeys, CPBL League complexities, supernerd'ing out on early 2000s Cubs, and the top agressively online independent baseball teams on Twitter!
Timestamps
0:00 Intros
3:47 Alyson's CPBL fandom
6:47 3:30 AM Game Watching
7:25 CPBL Details
11:25 No trading in CPBL??
15:44 Cubs Fandom Stories
20:43 Cara Dodgers Fanhood Origin Story
22:07 Thailand Monkeys/Failed Shanghai Trip Tangent Stories
26:11 Alyson's Life Goal
26:45 NPB Talk + Brady/Lindley's Japan Trip
30:37 Origin of InfieldFlyGrl
34:24 Is BaseballFreak A Good Handle?
35:40 Change in Fandom While Working in Baseball?
41:29 Baseball Twitter Shoutouts/Aggressively Online Rankings
45:08 Brady Laying The League Smackdown + Seattle Studs Crack Aggressively Online Rankings
51:06 2008 & 2016 Cubs Nostalgia
53:01 CR Stories From the Desk
57:18 Driveline Softball Intramural League??
59:15 Driveline Advantage Plan
Link to the hosts'/guest's Twitters:
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Alyson Mitchell: https://twitter.com/infieldflygrl
Episode 81 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
Use promo code: good2learn25 for $25 off on Driveline PLUS!
https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/product/plus-subscription/
The boys wil' out in this one! We talk about the big R&D ambitions and behind the scene work on a lot of PULSE/tracking tech paired data and how they want to leverage it to make PULSE a permanent part of all around player development, then touch on the grip strength paper that just came out (https://osf.io/hwcpx/) and our free cWAR dashboard (https://edu.drivelinebaseball.com/courses/free-dashboards)...and try our hand at leveraging it for a clickbait-y ass title above ^^. Enjoy ;)
Timestamps
0:00 Intros
1:35 S/o Luisa For Trial'ing @ Baseball Australia
3:32 Brady Bragging About His Nasty Live AB's
8:00 Sleeve vs Strap PULSE Discussion + Customer Feedback
12:56 Pulse/Tracking Tech Paired Pipeline + Analysis
15:50 Applying Paired Data Insights To Training, Pitch Design, Performance
21:33 Applying In-Gym Grips Data
26:05 PULSE for Pitch Design?
30:50 Grip Strength Paper
33:07 Rant About Research Costs
38:00 Grip Strength Spin Rate Findings
42:54 Finding OG Nugs of Biomech Data/State of v6 Processing
50:09 OG Road MoCap Tales
52:20 Run Through of New Look Driveline PLUS/cWAR Dash
55:30 2022's Highest cWAR Players
58:09 Ben Joyce's cWAR
Link to the hosts' Twitters:
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Episode 80 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guests: Bill Hezel
Our Director of Pitching, Bill Hezel, joins us and we talk what put Driveline on the map originally -- some daggum excellent athlete results. Bill talks navigating the complexities of broadening the department into one also oriented about in-season, on-the-field results as well while dealing with increased MLB attention on poaching pitching trainers. Bill also talks about some exciting new stuff we've got to offer our athletes now like our intended zones command training, biometric tracking, workload tracking integration and gives out some hard-nosed truths on developing and improving MLB-caliber pitchers.
Timestamps
0:00 Intros
4:10 Bill's Background
12:50 Driveline's Pitching Department: 2018-2022
14:47 The Need for Data Driven Pitching Systems/Buckets
18:07 Pitching Dept Dealing With Poaching
21:20 The Educational Support of Driveline's Internal Systems
23:50 Delivering In-Season, Year-Round Value/Results
33:40 Driveline's Advantage Plan Broadening Company Mission
40:04 Dillon Tate's Longitudinal Results w/ DL
42:50 Command Training Strategy
53:00 Median Miss Distance on Intended Zones; Command Assessment
57:15 Tracking Sleep, Biometrics
1:00:15 Harnessing Intensity (Kershaw Ex)
1:02:50 MLB Teams Wasting Spring Training?
1:05:45 Brady Losing His Mind Over ST PFP's
1:11:05 MLB Front Office Bias Re: Tradition
Link to the hosts' + guest Twitters:
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_ Bill Hezel: https://twitter.com/billhezel
