Driveline R&D Podcast: Recent Episodes
Anthony Brady
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.
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:
Timestamps0:00 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_CaravanChris 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!
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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
Episode 79 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With (double) guests: Ben Jones & Jared Skolnicki
Sports Science heavy one -- Cara's out of the picture so the gluttonous co-hosts got down with a Ben&Jerry's pint race, while talking Ben and Jerry's background, the newest out of the sports science lab specifically jump and hitting motion capture research and applying pitch design at the high school level in real time.
Timestamps
0:00 Intros/Ben&Jerry flavors
4:00 Ben's Background
12:18 Jerry's Background
20:37 Value of Working in CR First
22:30 Maxx Garrett Legendary Sales Story
26:30 Narrative Around Weighted Balls Now
29:50 Perspective/Uniqueness on Working in Driveline Research
38:04 Ben's Current Research on Jump Performance
48:40 Jerry Setting PRs During Ben's study
50:30 Ben&Jerry's Pint Update
51:50 Jerry's Coaching Career: Applying Pitch Design At High School Level
1:06:38 State of Hitting Biomechanics
1:14:10 Future Q's to Ask + Allusions to our Elite Athlete Dataset
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_
Jared Skolnicki: https://twitter.com/sayhomies
Ben Jones: [twitterless] :cry-emoji:
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 77 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guest: John Soteropulos
A long-overdue Hitting Training episode! John Soteropulos, Hitting Trainer at Driveline who masquerades as a filthy pick-up b-ball player, talks about his own playing career, the beefed up Hitting Assessment at Driveline, the future of hitting motion capture, and gets into the nitty gritty of manipulating constraints in the gym to get what we all want...more xwOBACON!
(Only way this episode could have been more gas was if the last story didn't get cut out of the final episode...scope Joney's reaction in the last frame)
Timestamps:
0:00 Intros
3:04 Soter's background
7:47 Hitting Assessment Changes from 2018-2022
12:40 Value Add from Hitting MoCaps
18:25 Head Start with Applied Hitting (vs Pitching) Biomechanics
20:14 Big 3 at DL Hitting
23:10 DB Viewer, Democratizing Insights Internally at DL
26:02 Value of Assessing/Retesting
27:30 Training: Getting Machines Dialed + Correct Positive/Negative Feedback
32:46 Manipulating Environment and Bat/Ball Implements
35:13 In-Season v Offseason Hitting v Throwing Programming
38:22 How to Increase Bat Speed
41:55 Weighted Bats/Balls used at Driveline; Utilizing Their Feedback
46:20 Learning and Applying Sabermetrics in Training
53:30 Cara/Soter Huge 1/1 Basketball Bet
54:42 Seeing Your Impact on The Field
59:10 Soter's Approach to Content Game + Censored Story
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_
John Soteropulos: https://twitter.com/Joney93
Episode 76 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With guest: Connor White
A long-overdue HP episode! Connor White, HP Trainer at Driveline that also masquerades as an active flamethrowing indy baller, gets DEEP into the nuances of our force plate driven assessment, how HP programming at Driveline integrates with the skill floors, PT, and R&D, and what we're most excited to dive in for the future! A couple fuego playing + lifting stories sprinkled in throughout this episode too.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intros
5:40 C White Current Playing Career + Brady Bat Boy Stories
10:27 Seattle Studs Legends/Stories
15:27 Brady's chance at Breaking PIL K's
18:12 DL HP Assessment
22:50 Biggest Signal/Shift from Assessment
31:05 Strength Phases
33:49 Tech Stack for HP Assesment
39:16 Forcehooks Validation
40:20 MyJumpLab Model/Validation
44:00 Workload in the Weight Room
48:53 Nutrition and Recovery
53:27 HP Integration with Rest of Depts
57:50 Common weaknesses for athletes coming in
1:01:50 Gaining strength v losing mobility?
1:08:05 Impressive Gym Lifts
1:11:25 Future things for HP
1:15:20 Cara/Lindley BenchOff
1:19:10 Weight room upgrade
1:21:05 Blowing out your spine DL'ing w/ Ian Walsh
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_
Connor White: https://twitter.com/@cwhite23_
Episode 75 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
No guests, kept this one preeeeeetty loose ;) More focused on internal updates this episode, we ended up talking recent research coming from the sports science department, from energy flow calculations to relationship of lateral bound/broad jump performance with throwing velocity.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intros
3:22 MoCap Launchpad Intensity
6:57 Mic'd up Pitch Design + TM/Raps missing pitches
14:51 MoCap'ing Intended Zones
16:40 Brady's 3-sport peformance
18:45 Ryan Budnick S/o
21:21 Dobby The House Elf S/o
21:51 Spring Training Early Performances
25:14 Hitting MoCap slated research/event definitions
34:23 Performance Jumps Relation w/ Velo
40:44 Driveline Plus plug + Giveaway ideas
45:38 Energy Flow Research
49:32 Dillon Tate Blog + More Sports Science Content Coming out
52:45 Softball Workload Discussion
58:10 Leveraging HP weighlifting workloads
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_
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:
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The new frontier of biomechanics: relating biomechanics to performance
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MLB lockout details
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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 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:
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What learning more about baseball analytics can help a coach at all levels
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The risk associated with reaching the highest levels of the game as an athlete
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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 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_
Episode 55 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 code at checkout
Today we talked about the baseball technology environment, important considerations for comparing measurements between different products and different labs, what Mike is most excited about between the Diamond Kinetics Swingtracker and Pitchtracker, potential open source datasets in the future, and good resources for becoming more of an expert in biomechanics
This episode was heavy on the technical side but Mike does an awesome job of explaining things in very digestible terms. 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 54 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
This week on Episode 54 of the Driveline R&D podcast we have something a little different for you guys. We have a recording of a biomechanics meeting from an athlete who recently assessed in our biomechanics lab.
This episode will be more valuable to watch on YouTube since you will be able to look at the visuals we are presenting, but you'll still be able to hear our discussion if you prefer to listen.
Don't forget about our 10% discount on all Driveline Certification courses using code podcast all under case at checkout. Just visit edu.drivelinebaseball.com to get started
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 53 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley! From Driveline HQ
This week the hosts talk about updates to EDGE reports coming in the first quarter of 2021, the recently published weighted ball study and where you can find that if you are interested, and some of the things you should consider when comparing different sources of biomechanics data.
Just a quick reminder, you can get a 10% discount on Driveline Baseball Certification courses by visiting edu.drivelinebaseball.com, selecting the certification you are interested in, and entering podcast (all under case) to the promo code box at checkout.
Second episode in a row with the boys live and in person, and Caravan even avoided gouging his eye with a bottle cap. 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 52 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley! From Driveline HQ
Driveline Baseball Certification Discount Code: podcast - use code at checkout
On this week's episode of the Driveline R&D podcast episode, the boys talk about the year in review, what we are excited about for the coming year and what being back in the facility means for Driveline R&D, some future directions of MotusTHROW, how implementing technology pairing systems now can help us in the future, and we even see Caravan get a fresh new haircut without him even knowing!
Last year was tough, we made the most of it, and we are extremely excited for the coming year and what it has in store for Driveline and the baseball industry as a whole. Enjoy!
Aiden McIntyre's Vlog on Watch Momentum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v4di6T5pFk&t=345s
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 51 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With Guest, Dean Jackson
@doublexcanflex on twitter
Today we talked about how having experience as a competitive pitcher helps and hurts a coach's ability to train an athlete, how important sleep is and why, non-conventional baseball training, where Dean comes up with it and why he implements it into his programs, what he uses to look at biomechanical data, and much more. This was a jam packed episode with a lot of good information for trainers and sports scientists from one of the most passionate coaches in the industry. 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 50 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With Guest, Taiki Green @itstaiki on twitter
Today we talked about how Taiki got introduced to Driveline and a lot about how Driveline has changed over the years, how Taiki's role changed not only during his time at Driveline but how that compares to his role now as co-founder and Chief Content Officer of Watch Momentum, how Momentum approaches identifying contributing factors to their media engagement, and more.
Taiki is one of the original Driveline few, all the way back to the SeaTac days, and also just an incredibly fun and funny guy. Enjoy
Link to the Momentum website: https://watch-momentum.com/
Link to the hosts' Twitters: Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_CaravanAnthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Episode 49 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With Guest, Ethan Moore @Moore_Stats on twitter
Today we talked about how Ethan approached getting his new role in the front office with the Minnesota Twins, how statistics education has helped his baseball analytics projects, his progression of work as a student manager with the baseball team in college, his methods for disseminating information to an audience, and much more.
Ethan is a very smart guy, has contributed immensely to public baseball research, and is going to do great things in the baseball analytics world, you'll definitely enjoy this one.
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 48 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With Guest, Deven Morgan @devenmorgan on twitter
This week we talked about the current state of youth baseball, what should be different about training youth athletes vs. trained adult athletes, why the current youth baseball industry is flawed in how they approach winning vs. development, how bio-banding can help solve the problem about differences in physical development rate at the youth level, and much more passionate discussion about helping young athletes get better. Deven is one of the most passionate people at Driveline about making the game of baseball better, and this episode does a good job capturing what he thinks is a good direction for the industry to go in. Enjoy!
Link to Deven's favorite rap song of all time (on Spotify):
https://open.spotify.com/track/3modItPxv7WPVIuSMLW496?si=e3C0dYZTQzmvZaItPU81lw
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 47 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With Guest, Barton Smith @NotRealCertain on twitter
Today we talked about how Barton got interested in the idea of Seam Shifted Wake, the best pitches to take advantage of Seam Shifted Wake, how to measure it without having Hawkeye at your disposal, examples of pitchers who take advantage of the it, determining who should attempt to use it, and much much more about a very interesting topic at the forefront of the Pitch Physics and Pitch Design discussion in baseball right now.
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 46 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
Today we had (probably) too long of an intro again like the old days, recapped the Christmas open-source twitter account under five thousand followers tournament, talked about count-induced pitch type differences using Yu Darvish as Exhibit A, mentioned a sweet R&D Podcast exclusive deal for training at Driveline TX and Arizona, that's right, we are coming south baby, described some new ways we are looking at the lead leg block before we get force plates installed in the mound, and then finished up with a research article about the effects of crow hopping on arm stress. It was nice to be back choppin' it up with the co-hosts and talking a little bit about what WE have been up to.
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 45 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With Guest, Rob Hill! @Berticushill on twitter
On Episode 45 of the Driveline R&D podcast we have Rob Hill, Pitching coordinator for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Coordinator of In-gym
development at Driveline
Today we talked about Rob's background getting introduced to Driveline and how he progressed to becoming a coordinator for the dodgers,
what his season looked like between the alternate site, the big league team, and instructs, what he thinks is most important when it comes
to using new baseball technology, which tech he used the most this year, how the dodgers approach S&C integration with throwing, and much more.
This episode was recorded before Christmas but we brought the energy of a live episode. Rob is a very knowledgeable, very talented, and fun
guy to talk to. You're going to enjoy this one.
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 44 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With Guest, Eno Sarris! @enosarris on twitter
This week on episode 44 we have guest Eno Sarris, writer for the athletic, baseball analyst, and beer and sandwich professional. On this episode we had an awesome conversation about the direction of the baseball industry, pitchers using pine tar, some good ways to test rule changes in the MLB, what is next when we arrive upon a solution for player development, getting Hawkeye data into the public research realm, seam shifted wake, and more, believe it or not.
The audio was not functional for the first 10 or so minutes unfortunately so we missed most of the intro, but still a great conversation with a very storied, well connected, smart, and overall fun guy to talk to, Eno Sarris. 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 43 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With Guest, David Howell! @dhow_2 on twitter
On this episode, David and the hosts talk about how David got into baseball analytics, some of the differences between professional baseball and college baseball in terms of being an analyst/coach, how he got recognized by professionals in the baseball industry and got his current professional opportunities, and much more. David is a former R&D intern at Driveline Baseball who also has experience being an analyst and coach at LSU Shreveport and now the Toronto Blue Jays organization. Awesome conversation and some very helpful insight for though trying to get into baseball analytics. 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 42 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With Guest Kyle Boddy!
@drivelinebases on twitter
On this episode Kyle talks covers a lot of information and stories between his experiences with Driveline, Poker, and his first year with the Reds. He offers some insight on what college programs can do better, what he thinks is most important in pitch design, the opportunity that the COVID season has provided to some players, the first coach(es) he knows who bought into these progressive methods to player development, and much more. Enjoy a slightly longer episode this week that is jam packed with prime Boddy conversation.
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 41 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
OG Cast is back! Caravan, Brady, and Lindley talk about some work and life updates, updates to vertical approach angle and spin efficiency models that we use in-house for sabermetric analyses, some jump testing reliability and high performance KPIs, and lastly we review an article that looked into using machine learning for predicting future injuries for both position players and pitchers using public data. Join us on YouTube to catch freshly shaven Caravan put his hair down before he cuts it all off in 2021! Enjoy!
Link to article we are discussing:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7672741/
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 40 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With Guest Max Engelbrekt!
@maxengelbrekt on twitter
On this episode we talk about Max's playing background, his crazy retirement bet and how he almost won it, his transition from playing baseball to where he is as a project manager for TRAQ, and much more. A close coworker and friend to the hosts, and a very interesting guest. 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 39 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With Guest: Eric Jagers @ericjagers
In this episode, Eric dives deep into where he believes was the first instance of pitch design, how that process progressed from messing with different cameras and camera angles to a much more quantitative approach, breeding competition in spring training, Bauer winning the Cy Young, and just many more awesome stories.
Link to Bauer's early pitch design video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmSMSEdyNVU
Link to Driveline Pitch Design Certification:
https://coaches.drivelinebaseball.com/courses/pitch-design/
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 38 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
With Guest: Jason Ochart @JasonOchart
In this episode, Jason talks about how he got introduced to Driveline, how he got into coaching, the most surprisingly adopted measurement tools by the players during his time in pro-ball, and much more. Jason also discusses the three major skills components of hitting that good hitters do well which help him break hitting down for his athletes and players in professional baseball.
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_
Carter Capps, former big leaguer in the Mariners, Marlins, and Padres organizations, joins the host to talk about his mechanics, analytics, and where he sees the application of analytics can be improved. Don't miss his discussion about his approach to working with athletes based on their individual competencies with advanced analytics principles.
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_
Brady, Caravan, and Lindley are back at it talking about our newly developed online dashboards for trainers to use and summarize athlete results, breaking down a sample biomechanics report from a pitcher who is included in our elite throwing group, and introducing a research article testing machine learning for identifying athlete type-of-sport and level-of-play from generic biomechanics.
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_
Lindley and Brady reminisce about the 2017 summer R&D internship at Driveline including what is different, how we've improved and aspects of the early R&D days that we could stand to get back to. We also talk about the future of biomechanics, some differences in baseball training between the NPB and American Baseball, and also touch on previous work travel and how far that has come for our mobile biomechanics lab now.
Most importantly, we released the answer to the riddle from last week's announcement.
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 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley! Live show replay link here: https://youtu.be/2Tw6nrqa5Ro With Guest: Luisa Gauci Twitter: https://twitter.com/LuisaGauci 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 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley! Live show replay link here: https://youtu.be/eYNucbw1sPA
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 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
Live show replay link here: https://youtu.be/bstR5ITavW8
With Guest: Nikolai Yakovenko
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ivan_bezdomny
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 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
Live show replay link here: https://youtu.be/-ifJRll0b8Q
Joined today with guest Christian Hook, the newest member of the Driveline Research & Development Team as an analytics intern!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristianH00k
Today for episode 31 we're talking with Christian about his first impressions, internship expectations, and what’s been most surprising so far
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 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
Live show replay link here: https://youtu.be/h-9kxsmVEcw
Joined today with guest Denton Sagerman, Director of Baseball Ops and Player Development at Indiana Baseball
Twitter: https://twitter.com/denton_sagerman
Today for episode 30 we're talking shop with Denton and what player development looks like within college baseball.
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 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
Live show replay link here: https://youtu.be/zyDTemYvT_E
Today for episode 29 we're following up after last weeks episode on PitchAI and discussing some upcoming some exciting upcoming developments that we're working on with the tool! We dive into a Cara Chat on APIs and why we developed them. Lindley is going to discuss some internal investigations on biomechanical correlations related to increasing layback. And Caravan finishes the episode off with a journal article review on calculating pitch quality!
Journal Article link:
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/jqas/15/1/article-p59.xml
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 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
Live show replay link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxtF26aYMrg
Joined today with guest Dr. Mike Sonne!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrMikeSonne
Today for episode 28 we are covering all things PitchAI! From what it is and how it came about, to use cases and example report walkthroughs!
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_
First ever live episode of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady (out for today), Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!
Today for episode 27 we have some start of the season sabermetric looks, some discussion on Hawkeye, a study article review, and updates from the last two weeks since last week was a guest episode. Caravan also interviews Kyle for about 20 minutes about his background all the way back to his worst grade in high school.
Link to Quiet Eye Study: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01565/full
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_
Rachel Balkovec is currently a minor league hitting coach for the New York Yankees; formerly a strength and conditioning coach for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Houston Astros. Rachel talks about some of her stops throughout her professional background, the importance of participating and immersing herself into what she is teaching as a coach, her early interest in data-driven coaching, and much much more.
Link to the mentioned gaze tracking study (moon-landing study): https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2020.00003 Frans Bosch constraints led approach: https://fransbosch.systems/
Rachel's Socials:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_rachelbalkovec
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachel.balkovec/
2:15 Introducing Rachel
4:00 Covid shutdown exercise adventures
7:05 Takeaways from her professional background stops
13:25 How Rachel approaches risk throughout her career
15:10 The constraints led approach in the Netherlands
18:50 Rachel's early interest in data-driven coaching
21:20 The importance of understanding data collection abstractly
22:40 Projects that Rachel wishes she could complete that got cut short
25:45 Rachel's thoughts on the growth of Softball player development
35:10 Why Rachel participates in the things she coaches
38:25 The value of understanding failure
43:10 The role of participation on group culture
47:20 Favorite/least favorite part of working with us
Link to the hosts' twitters:
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Episode 25 of the Driveline R&D (Research and Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley. Timestamps: 3:45 Upcoming Podcast News 11:10 Model Improvements for Youth players in Swing Profile 14:30 Ongoing R&D work with Motus 34:35 Training Floor Research Integration 41:50 Talk about how ROM request -> investigation started 45:30 Specific BTS of an example of R&D requests 53:10 ROM & injury research investigations 59:00 Significant ROM ANOVA results talk and discussion
In Episode 25 we talk exciting future podcast plans (Caravan offers $100 for the most hardcore of listeners!), general updates (including improving the Exp EV/LA model in Swing Profile for Youth Players) and what we've been doing in-gym as MotusValidation (link to our older peer-reviewed study of Motus validation) and what the landscape looks like there in future Motus research projects.
Then Brady sheds some light on the current existing workflow of R&D requests from the training floors and proposed improvements -- we pull the curtains back a bit and talk general bottlenecks when it comes to requests. Then we finish off with an ongoing project stemming from training floor requests and talk Part I of Caravan's investigation relating ROM, injury designations, and motion capture joint kinetics. It's a loooot of wide (many columns) but small (not that many rows!) data talk in this episode!
Link to some of the repeated measures correlation analysis the guys talk about in relation to Motus validation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5383908/
Link to the hosts' twitters: Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9 Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Episode 24 of the Driveline R&D (Research and Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley.
Timestamps: 4:30 Dan's Background 8:55 R&D Growth throughout Driveline history 16:25 How Cara learned from Dan 22:00 Dan's judgments on social medial game 32:15 Growth of College Baseball Analytics 49:50 New Unexplored Areas of Analytics 55:10 Best/Worst Thing about Co-Managing Analytics with Cara + quick fire Q&A
In Episode 24 we have our first guest! Caravan's fellow co-Manager of Baseball Analytics at Driveline, Dan Aucoin, hops on to chat about his background, his perspective on working in pro ball, the present and future of baseball analytics, some reflection on utilizing social media to push forward research, and some (slightly censored) behind the scenes stories of working with Caravan!
Link to the hosts' (AND guest) twitters: Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9 Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_ Dan Aucoin: https://twitter.com/@dan_aucoin13
Episode 23 of the Driveline R&D (Research and Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley.
Timestamps:
9:15 ABBS Conference
22:25 R&D Content Creation
30:05 Cara Chats - When to Use Linear Regression
44:55 Weighted Ball Study Review
The episode begins with a few updates and announcements, and then we quickly get into the American Baseball Biomechanics Society (ABBS) Conference that happened last week.
Kyle discusses some new R&D content initiatives to help showcase R&D output better, Caravan talks about when it's appropriate to use linear regression, and Anthony reviews a new weighted ball research study that was recently published.
Link to Cara chats segment on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/2IFbU8URzNk
Link to weighted ball article review on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/zd0GmIdH_vA
Link to the study we discussed:
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1941738120925728
Documentation for the regression function, loess(), that Caravan talks about when referring to locally weighted regression:
https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/stats/versions/3.6.2/topics/loess
Link to the hosts' twitters:
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Episode 22 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley
Youtube Link to full podcast
Start of the show includes some weekly work updates, a quick scope of an upcoming SPM blog. Kyle goes into some more lower half pitching research looking at pelvis and counter rotation in the biomechanics data. Caravan discusses R vs. Python as a coding language. And Caravan wraps the episode by breaking down Alan Nathan's most recent Batted Ball Flight article linked here
Link to the hosts' twitters:
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Episode 21 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley
Youtube Link to full podcast
Start of the show includes some weekly work updates, a couple life updates, and some description of the new facility and our resources there as we open up Driveline Washington.
Kyle gets into some lower half pitching research that he completed last week, Cara chats about data scaling, standardizing, and normalizing and when to use them, and the review a research article looking at biomechanical variability and command
Link to the article Cara references in his chat
Link to the hosts' twitters:
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Episode 20 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley
Youtube Link to full podcast
Youtube Link to cWar Questions clip
Youtube Link to Biomechanics Report Walkthrough
Today's show, Caravan starts off by answering some college war questions he recieved last week and goes a bit more in depth on expected run values. There's going to be a link to the video of that clip in the description below.
We talk more about New TRAQ launch with EDGE and our other integrations.
Caravan talks about some analytics wing research ideas that the he thinks any of the listeners could actually get into if they wanted. And at the end of the podcast we did about a 15 minute segment where we screenshared and went over our biomechanics assessment report. Again, that'll be best viewed at the youtube link below. Hope you enjoy!
Link to the hosts' twitters:
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Episode 19 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley
In this episode we go over some of the latest updates in the R&D department, the launch of our new TRAQ features where we've integrated EDGE. And then Anthony gets into some updates on Driveline Arizona and using and ELO system for live ABs!
Link to the hosts' twitters:
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Episode 18 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley
In this episode we miss our favorite Arizona-stranded butterscotch baby Anthony Brady but Kyle honors him by starting off the episode talking about recent biomechanics requests from our trainers and future initiatives in comparing full signal. Then Alex talks about going public with cWAR and the next steps there! Caravan also talks about an oldie but goodie piece on sabermetrics by Baseball Prospectus on identifying successful change-ups at the big league level!
cWAR blog: https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/2020/06/an-introduction-to-cwar/
Baseball Prospectus article: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/20696/what-makes-a-good-changeup-an-investigation-part-two/
Link to the hosts' twitters:
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Episode 17 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley
In this episode we talk briefly about project updates and Driveline in Arizona! Alex talks about developing D1 Baseball WAR and other advanced metrics. We finish the episode with talking more about force plate research and predictive velocity models!
Link to the hosts' twitters:
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Episode 16 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast!
With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley
In this episode we talk briefly about project updates and Driveline in Arizona! Kyle discusses some biomechanics research requests he worked on last night and Kinematic Variability. We got really deep into the Biomechanics Research requests that Lindley worked on, so we decided to table the last two topics on the new college baseball model and What Makes a Good Changeup to next weeks episode!
Link to the hosts' twitters:
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Episode 15 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast!
With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley
In this episode we talk briefly about project updates (due to some traveling constraints) and employee feedback/reviews week. Kyle discusses the research article preparation and writing process that we have going on with our backlog of open studies. And Anthony goes on depth on pitchAI and some recent developments that there team has been working on!
Article that Anthony references on pitchAI: https://proplayai.com/pitchai-goes-to-spring-training/
Link to the hosts' twitters:
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Episode 14 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast!
With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley
In this episode we talk about our project updates from last week, Alex breaks down Model Error Analysis. Kyle discusses a tweet thread on pitching energy transfer and finishes off the podcast with a research article review on fastball velocity and elbow varus torque!
Article that Lindley reviewed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30721094
Link to the hosts' twitters:
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Episode 13 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley
In this episode we talk about our project updates from last week, Anthony talks about the weighted ball panel he was on last week, and the new Driveline PLUS Slack channel. Alex ends the podcast with a research review discussing 3 articles on defensive metrics and the process of validating them.
Youtube version of the podcast linked here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxoay9sGSJE&feature=youtu.be
Link to the weighted ball panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YjUnE_dAeY&feature=emb_title
Articles that Caravan discussed:
https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/58243/measuring-defensive-accuracy-in-baseball/
https://hareeb.com/2020/04/14/the-baseball-prospectus-article-comparing-defensive-metrics-is-strange/
https://hareeb.com/2020/04/17/dont-use-fraa-for-outfielders/
Link to the hosts' twitters:
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Episode 12 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley
In this episode we talk about our project updates from last week, discuss ongoing tech validations like K vest and Blast, as well as recent tech validation of the pitchLogic ball. Anthony ends with a research review of a whitepaper about workloads and injury rates using motus.
Make sure to checkout the Youtube version of the podcast! https://youtu.be/aY6jXz8gnjU
Link to the discussed research article: https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/b515ca31/files/uploaded/relationship-between-acvr-and-injury.pdf
pitchLogic Validation: https://www.samford.edu/sports-analytics/fans/2020/Validating-pitchLogic-Assessing-the-New-Smart-Baseball
Driveline blog on workload and motus by Devin Rose: https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/2020/04/what-is-throwing-workload/
Link to the hosts' twitters:
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Episode 11 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley
In this episode we talk about our project updates from last week, introduce our new Swing Profile report using bat sensor data, and discuss the first of our many coming D1Baseball Player Profiles for college pitchers. Kyle ends of the episode with a review of a hitting vision research paper discussing the preparatory phase of hitting and what hitters are looking at before the pitch is released.
Link to the discussed research article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12027326
Link to our introductory Swing Profile blog: https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/2020/04/swing-profile-introducing-expected-batted-ball-results/
Link to the first Driveline X D1Baseball Player Profile: https://d1baseball.com/analysis/driveline-prospect-portraits-floridas-tommy-mace-jack-leftwich/
Link to the hosts' twitters:
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_
Episode 10 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Kyle Lindley, and Alex Caravan. Today we cover updates, run through our recurring segments of Social Media Stats Gone Wrong and Coding with Caravan (these two segments are on Youtube only and are spliced out of this audio, otherwise happening at 14:30), followed by Alex conducting a research review of a recent journal article linked below, which spurs a back and forth about acute physical vs psychological effects when it comes to using different-weight bats:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28858061
Link to the Youtube version of the podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqPPViFwSAc&feature=youtu.be
Episode 9 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Kyle Lindley, and Alex Caravan. Today we're talking more about some project updates, debunking tweets, how we go about some weighted ball mound analysis, and Anthony does a research review of a recent journal article linked below:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2325967120910503
Link to the Youtube version of the podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ_Jcfekz0A
Episode 8 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Kyle Lindley, and Alex Caravan. Today we're talking more about some project updates, the Weighted Ball Mound Study, and Kyle breaks down a Gaze Tracking Research Paper!
Here's the link to the article that we discuss on the podcast: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338884434_Eye_and_Head_Movements_of_Elite_Baseball_Players_in_Real_Batting
We're going to do more article reviews/discussions like the one that we did on this episode going forward! If you'd like us to do more or have suggestions on articles that we should break down, let us know!!
Episode 7 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Kyle Lindley, and Alex Caravan. Today we're talking more about shifts in projects/focus amid COVID-19 like remote training, and potential technology partnerships that could help bolster that remote training experience. Also, Alex drops a few more article recommendations!
Episode 5 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Kyle Lindley, and Alex Caravan. Today we talk about COVID-19, some of the things and projects that we're working on to address it and also some recommended resources that you could look into during this down time.
links to pieces that Caravan recommended:
At What Launch Angle Do Batters Maximize Their Exit Velocity: http://tangotiger.com/index.php/site/comments/statcast-lab-at-what-launch-angle-do-batters-maximize-their-exit-velocity
Optimizing the Swing: https://www.fangraphs.com/tht/optimizing-the-swing/
Reverse Engineering Swing Mechanics from Statcast Data: https://www.fangraphs.com/community/reverse-engineering-swing-mechanics-from-statcast-data/
Baseball's 'Hot Hand' Is Real: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/baseballs-hot-hand-is-real/
Dynamic Run Value of Throwing a Strike (Instead of a Ball): https://tht.fangraphs.com/dynamic-run-value-of-throwing-a-strike-instead-of-a-ball/
Spin Rate and Swinging Strike Probabilities: https://baseballwithr.wordpress.com/2017/01/16/spin-rate-and-swinging-strike-probabilities/
Episode 5 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Kyle Lindley, and Alex Caravan. Today we talk about how R&D uses 6 week sprints for projects, some projects we're especially excited about that are coming up, and Caravan heading to SABR seminar!
Caravan's audio got messed up this episode. Apologies. Turns out we recorded in a room with a lot of echo, tried to adjust it as best I could. Hope you still enjoy this episode!
Episode 4 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Kyle Lindley, and Alex Caravan. Today we give an update to our ongoing biomechanics metric/bucket audit. We also talk about some exciting force plate projects, and answer a fantastic list of questions on pitch design, R&D, etc.
Episode 3 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Kyle Lindley, and Alex Caravan. Today we talk about developing our internal tools like EDGE and Coach's Tools, how we use them to solve day to do problems, and a glimpse at our biomechanics buckets system!
Episode 2 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Kyle Lindley, and Alex Caravan. Today we talk about acquiring Motus, how we're all excited about that, some of the downfalls/frustrations of research, and a quick look into Trashcangate!
The first episode of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Kyle Lindley, and Alex Caravan