Driveline R&D Podcast

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