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Driveline Research & Drinks. A round table discussion about research and development at Driveline Baseball hosted by Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley. Insights to navigating this new technology-rich baseball world and how we think about things within R&D at Driveline, while also throwing back a few of our favorite brews.
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Episode 66 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guest, Max Dutto!
https://twitter.com/MaxDutto_ on Twitter
Today we had special guest Max Dutto on the show, Director of Hitting at Driveline Baseball. We talked a lot about some of the differences/similarities between hitting and pitching development and how the context of the movements affects those approaches.
A few audio hiccups along the way but we get them dialed pretty quickly this time around.
As always, if you're interested in becoming Driveline certified, you can get a 10% discount by using the code podcast at checkout by visiting edu.drivelinebaseball.com.
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 65 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guest, Chris Langin!
@LanginTots13 on Twitter
Today we had special guest Chris Langin on the show, one of the most analytical coaches we've had in the pitching department. So much so that he created an Analytics Course (nicely priced at $69.99) or free if you have Driveline Plus.
After we recorded a whole episode without actually pressing record, we ran it back and ripped a hour and a half discussion about:
- What learning more about baseball analytics can help a coach at all levels
- The risk associated with reaching the highest levels of the game as an athlete
- The best way to approach developing one of your athletes (in the context of mechanics and pitch design)
As always, if you're interested in becoming Driveline certified, you can get a 10% discount by using the code podcast at checkout by visiting edu.drivelinebaseball.com.
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 64 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
As always, if you're interested in becoming Driveline certified, you can get a 10% discount by using the code podcast at checkout by visiting edu.drivelinebaseball.com.
It's been a minute since we had the whole gang back together. Finally got around to recording a podcast for you all. Looking to get these out more regularly as we find time in our hectic schedules, make sure to keep touch with us on Twitter for updates on future episodes.
Today we caught up a lot on some things that have been going on over the last year. Caravan and Lindley just got back from ABCA and give their thoughts on the experience. Also, congratulations to a former intern in the R&D department, Rachel Balkovec, on her latest promotion becoming the first woman manager in the MILB!
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 78 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guest: Joe Marsh
This one is a loooose one -- we got one of the Driveline OG Legends and our ex boss on, Joe Marsh. Yabin talks about meeting Boddy a decade ago, going from 77 to 90 mph*, building the first Driveline R&D Lab, buying Motus/PULSE and a looooot other stories.
*https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/2012/06/going-from-77-mph-to-90-mph-in-five-months-the-joe-marsh-story/
Timestamps:
0:00 Intros
2:14 Linking up with Boddy
6:20 The Joe Marsh Story
15:05 Joe Training with the DL Legends
18:30 Joe The Throwing Trainer
20:55 The Start of the DL R&D Lab
29:55 Original 6 Week Study
33:55 Cara Joining Driveline R&D Dept
38:15 Biomech Lab Hitting The Road
49:22 Joe's Crazy Tour of America Story in Denver
55:10 Computed Muscle Control
1:05:00 Motus Acquisition
1:08:00 R&D Early Dept Structure
1:12:00 Kinatrax/Hawkeye Processing
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_
Joe Marsh: https://twitter.com/TheJoeMarsh
Episode 74 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guest: Chris Langin
This one's jam packed and Langin's sports comm'n degree shines through again in his smooth, sanguine spiels ;)
We talk the science of pitch design, training big leaguers, pitch calling in college and just how much of a sports gambling degen Langin is. Oh and if you're an athlete that trained with Langin you might get lucky and make it in the 10 shoutouts he gives out in this episode!
Timestamps: 0:00 Intros
5:54 La(o)st Langin Episodes Recap
8:15 Langin's Improvement as Pitch Design Specialist
11:50 Being able to throw sweeper without losing too much velo
15:38 Thoughts on gyro slider
18:45 Platoon splits in PD
19:50 Different amount of data prep per player
21:38 Sequencing during PD
23:38 Coaches v player calling pitches in college
29:55 Langin's 2nd beer
31:00 College Catchers and Pitch Calling
33:50 Advanced Reports in College
37:28 Driveline's Last Pro Offseason
41:06 Langin's focus pre College Summer
44:10 Importance of Data Viz + Athlete Meetings
52:00 Langin's shoutouts
58:00 Langin's approach on command work
1:02:15 Easy ways to incorporate command work
1:07:30 Sports Gambling degen talk
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_
Chris Langin: https://twitter.com/LanginTots13
Episode 73 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guest: Brandon Mann
Had new Driveline Pitching Trainer Brandon Mann on the pod today to talk about a 15 year pro career culminating in his MLB debut with the Rangers in 2018. Brandon talks about the OG Driveline Training Environment, how he managed to add a couple ticks of velo in his 30's, pitching in Japan and China, coaching in Korea, and applying what he's learned from the last few decades of a crazy career to the current Driveline crop of trainees.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intros
5:45 B Mann Background + OG Driveline Training Intensity
12:40 Backing off Intensity on Recovery Days + PULSE Use cases for intensity
18:01 B Mann's Scoreless Inning Streak
19:50 B Mann Plunking Ichiro, Nelson Cruz
26:12 B Mann's start in the KBO
30:55 B Mann Return to DL as Pitching Trainer
35:33 Nostalgia of OG Driveline Environment + Dialing in Programming
42:10 Crazy Training Volume in Japan
44:33 Survivorship Bias of Pros with Great Durability
46:20 Meeting HUGE pro athletes in person
49:34 B Mann's specific interest/passion as a trainer
53:25 Pitch Design Importance
57:27 Mental health of athletes
1:02:50 Making Live AB's in-gym as game like as possible
1:06:56 Driveline Casino Night + Last Reflections
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_
Brandon Mann: https://twitter.com/brandonmmann
Episode 72 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With two guests: David Besky & Kyle Wasserberger!
Today we had both Besky and Wass on the show (Lindley got cold feet aka was in NorCal for his b-day). Possibly our most research-y pod yet we did not hold back -- we talked about struggles we've experienced leveraging our ever growing database of marker-based motion capture, how some things out there in academia straight up don't make sense, how valuable our access to elite athletes in the lab is and what we're most looking forward to crunching. Start sipping on a coffee cuz you're gonna need to be on one to absorb everything in this episode!
Timestamps:
0:00 Intros
3:59 Some Degen drinking backgrounds for the str8-edge boyz
5:50 Guests' Background
11:26 Main Sources of Internal Biomech Data Sources
14:20 Brady's UPS Guest Lecture
18:05 Concerns/Thoughts about lack of industry-centralized motion capture model
22:57 6dof vs IK models
26:50 Importance of domain knowledge
30:05 Past studies based off gait analysis/non-elite athlete populations
32:53 Rec's for First Time Data Dives Into Biomech Data
38:25 Reflecting on previous research driving definitions, methods
39:58 Event definitions and impact of precise definitions
44:45 Squashing the 9000 deg/s myth
47:08 Energy flow calculations
52:34 Futue Investigations we're pumped on
57:49 #1 Rec for Starting Biomech Lab
Link to the hosts' + guest Twitters:
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Kyle Wasserberger: https://twitter.com/kww_DL
David Besky: https://twitter.com/David_Besky
Episode 71 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guest, Eric Jagers!
Today we had Eric Jagers on the show, in a return appearance to the pod (first time in studio though!). The boyzzzz discuss a wide range of topics from old training stories to gaining kiensthetic awareness from gymastics as a young 'un to gaming the existing edges in the today's data-driven player development landscap at the highest margins of the game.
0:00 Intros
4:05 PR's on Low Sleep
9:40 Jags still throwing + Matching intensity for athletes
14:05 Evolution of Dynamic Warmups
19:45 Jags Gymnastics Background/Proprioception Feel
24:30 Jags/Cara Workout Throwbacks
26:05 What has changed for Jags in the last year of training athletes?
41:10 When did you shift from playing career?
47:20 Biggest diff in training minors vs MLB'ers
54:50 What Jags has improved at the most in the last year?
1:01:02 How has Jag's opinion on tech changd at all?
1:04:20 The New Meta
1:08:50 'Not a lot of bio in biomechanics'
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_
Eric Jagers: https://twitter.com/ericjagers
Episode 70 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guest, Nick Martinez!
Today we had special guest Nick Martinez on the show, professional pitcher in the MLB and NPB (Texas Rangers, Nippon Ham Fighters, and Fukuoka Softbank Hawks
We talked about how Nick started using PULSE to monitor his workload on a daily basis and some of his playing experiences in the MLB and NPB
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 69 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
No guest today, just the squad. 2 years of the podcast, crack one open for the 69th episode with the boys. Here's to 69 more!
Today we talked about:
- Brady's offseason training (aka Cliff Holmes
- tips on PRing with plyo velos
- Taking a look at a few PULSE research papers with an impromptu research review and much more.
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 68 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guest, Eno Sarris!
https://twitter.com/enosarris on Twitter
Today we had special guest Eno Sarris on the show, baseball sports writer for the athletic. Now it's been back to back returning guest episodes, electric as always.
Today we talked about:
- The new frontier of biomechanics: relating biomechanics to performance
- MLB lockout details
- How the HOF is keeping Bonds out of the hall and much more.
As always, if you're interested in becoming Driveline certified, you can get a 10% discount by using the code podcast at checkout by visiting edu.drivelinebaseball.com.
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 67 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guest, Jason Ochart!
https://twitter.com/JasonOchart on Twitter
Today we had special guest Jason Ochart on the show, Minor League Hitting Coordinator for the Philadelphia Phillies. Another longer episode with the legend, talking about how things have improved with Driveline hitting, some of the things that we might be able to learn with our hitting biomechanics (including adjustability), what it takes to be an elite coach, and more.
As always, if you're interested in becoming Driveline certified, you can get a 10% discount by using the code podcast at checkout by visiting edu.drivelinebaseball.com.
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 63 of the Driveline R&D Podcast, round two of the intern series. This week we chatted with the rest of the 2021 summer interns that were not able to make it to the first intern series episode. Don't need much of an intro for these folks, and the episode starts with a bit of a cold open so strap in and enjoy!
Interns (in order):
Kyle Wasserberger (@kww_AU)
Micah Jona (@MJ99_1)
Robert Frey (@RobertFrey40)
Sam Bornstein (@Sam__Bornstein)
Michael Capobianco
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 62 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
Episode 62 of the Driveline R&D Podcast, Caravan and Lindley bring you a special episode. This week we sat down with all of our on-site R&D interns to hear a little about their backgrounds and hear about their time at Driveline so far. They don't need much of an intro so I'll keep this short, but I think this was a really fun episode. Remote interns coming up in the next episode, enjoy!
Interns (in order):
John Asel (@JohnnyAsel)
Ethan Seigel (@ethansiegel22)
Lauren Netzel
Jack Rummells
Jake Spirer
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_
Live Episode 61 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
Episode 61 of the Driveline R&D Podcast coming back from the dead talking about our latest product launch, Driveline PULSE. Lindley and Caravan get deep into weeds on what PULSE is. For those who don't know, the workload management tool previously known as Motus is now Driveline PULSE and it's easier than ever to measure and manage your own or your team's workload. In this episode we talked about some of the first things we tackled after we acquired Motus in early 2020, what has changed with the launch of PULSE, and where we see PULSE going long term.
It was our first episode back on the podcast so we were a bit scattered and we didn't have our producer Anthony with us so we had some technical difficulties but it was awesome to be back. Don't be afraid to hit us on twitter if you have any questions or thoughts about PULSE! Cheers
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 60 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
As always, if you're interested in becoming Driveline certified, you can get a 10% discount by using the code podcast at checkout by visiting edu.drivelinebaseball.com.
Today we talk about completing this year's spring and summer hiring and what things we look for in potential candidates. We also dive in to our predicted fastball velocity and bat speed models, and address the rumors of a new MLB baseball in 2021. We also have some big news, we are going to take a short break from recording episodes for just a few weeks but hope to back sometime before the beginning of June. Unless we get 10 uses of our discount code, podcast all under case, for Driveline coaches certifications at edu.drivelinebaseball.com and we will be back next week with more nonsense
We talk about why we are taking a break in the beginning of the episode and are really excited to get things back up and running during the summer.. we even have a fun series planned out to start recording then. Hope you enjoy!
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 59 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guest, Noah Thurm!
@thurminator13 on twitter
Today we had special guest Noah Thurm on the show, a young baseball operations phenom. We talked about why Barry Bonds deserves to be in the hall of fame, what metrics to look at when trying to evaluate a change in performance in the beginning of the year, what we are most excited about with hawkeye data, best places to stay up to date with public research, and much much much more.
Great episode today with a very talented analyst. Enjoy
As always, if you're interested in becoming Driveline certified, you can get a 10% discount by using the code podcast at checkout by visiting edu.drivelinebaseball.com.
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 58 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
Driveline Baseball Certification Discount Code: podcast - visit edu.drivelinebaseball.com and use ode at checkout As always, if you're interested in becoming Driveline certified, you can get a 10% discount by using the code podcast at checkout by visiting edu.drivelinebaseball.com.
Today we did a long recap of the 2021 SABR seminar, talked about a commentary piece on how analytics are good for surgery but apparently bad for baseball, new lab upgrades and going back on some nuances about hitting biomechanics that we are excited to try and standardize across the baseball biomechanics industry. In true Caravan fashion, he recorded from a Vegas Starbucks and still crushed his SABR recap. Enjoy!
Glenn Healey & Lequan Wang public paper: https://vixra.org/pdf/2101.0046v1.pdf
Alan Nathan's paper: http://baseball.physics.illinois.edu/HawkeyeSpinAnalysis-MLB-Part II-v1-public.pdf
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 57 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
Driveline Baseball Certification Discount Code: podcast - visit edu.drivelinebaseball.com and use ode at checkout
D1Baseball Podcast with Alex and his college baseball snake draft: https://d1baseball.com/podcasts/d1baseball-driveline-podcast-the-cwar-draft/
Today we talked about whether the Vandyboys or any powerhouse college baseball team could be a A minor league team, youth baseball coachisms, short arm actions, what they are, what we think about them, and all the hype around them, and finally a discussion about biomechanical differences between the drop step drill and a regular pitch.
As always, if you're interested in becoming Driveline certified, you can get a 10% discount by using the code podcast at checkout by visiting edu.drivelinebaseball.com. Enjoy!
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 56 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
Today we talked about how players and agents can use data to illustrate their value, how Trevor investing in R&D has helped him in his negotiations and how teams have responded to it, the importance of social media and how to get yourself as an athlete set up for success in the future, and much more. Very interesting episode with an expert on the side of baseball that we don't often touch on.
If you're itching to learn a bit more about baseball and coaching, make sure to visit edu.drivelinebaseball.com and get started on a coaches certification at 10% off using the code podcast all under case at checkout. Enjoy!
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_
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