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Finally threw a few actual fastballs for the first time in my life. Maybe this Driveline stuff actually works.
Idk you be the judge. Regardless it seems like 2 Shoes 2.0 is a pretty chill dude.
#96IsTheNew90
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Not sure if a meme has ever resonated with me as much as this one does.
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No matter how hard you train, or how much you care, dudes like this exist. Lol
Felipe Vázquez, Totally Unfair painted 99mph Fastball & Wicked 88mph Slider combo. 🎨😳
The correct answer to Felipe's question from yesterday is "YES."
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Excited to finally announce that I have accepted a position as a Pitching Coordinator with the
@Dodgers
!
The deal is split, meaning that I will retain my title at
@DrivelineBB
, similarly to that of
@ericjagers
,
@JasonOchart
and
@drivelinebases
.
Those 3 paved the way for this
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My guy Yoshinobu Yamamoto has easily one of my favorite deliveries of any professional pitcher. Really makes one reconsider arbitrary mechanical models when someone who throws like this sits mid to upper 9’s. Form follows function I suppose.
Oh also he’s 5’10”, 176 lbs LOL.
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Time to resume my study of undersized Japanese pitchers who throw 100mph.
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“dRiVeLiNe OnLy CaReS aBoUt PeOpLe wHo ThRoW hArD!¡!¡”
When
@MarioBeavers
pr’s, the whole family pr’s.
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“I’ve never seen a cheetah warm up.”
You’re not a cheetah. You’re 20lbs over weight, get tired after 4 sprints and throw 86.
“I’m here to give it all I got! One cHaNcE 2 gRiNd!”
*skips half of warm up*
*glazes over other half*
“Why don’t I feel loose? Why am I not PR’ing?!”
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I think it’s safe to say we won’t ever see another like Chapman. A truly elite thrower who consistently sits in the 98-101 mph range and performs on a yearly basis. Pitching mechanics nerds like myself will forever be thankful for what this man’s throw has taught us.
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Just remember: no one cares how hard you work if you never produce anything that showcases that the work you were doing was actually worth a damn.
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68 wings eaten
1 tongue mangled
Lots of memories made
Didn’t bring home the crown, but still retain the title of
#WingKing
with 70 last year. Probably never doing this ever again…I’ve had enough chicken wings for 2 lifetimes.
#GoDodgers
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Dodgers are also promoting Rob Hill to Director of Minor League Pitching, source tells
@TheAthletic
. Was the club's pitching coordinator.
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Just watched Manny Ramirez smash a ball at 100mph EV with the end load axe bat, flip it as he finished the swing and yell “talk to me!” before walking over to see what Hittrax had to say.
Electric.
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“If you can’t wrap your head around the idea that trying to acquire new skills will create a temporary time where your effectiveness diminishes as you’re trying to bring on these new skills, you’re never going to make it.” - John Danaher
🔥🔥🔥
#FailureTolerance
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If you’ve never frantically skowered the Internet for “UCL tear symptoms” after a velo day, you probably aren’t trying hard enough.
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Always fires me up to see someone come back better than they were before. 🧀
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Edgertronic footage of 7th year senior out of Southwest East Kent Culinary College, Ronnie “2 shoes” Hall. (Dry rep). Ronnie does a good job of getting into absurd positions, and pretty much nothing else. What do you got on this?
@PitchingNinja
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dRiVe oFf yOuR bAcK lEg!!!!!¡¡
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😅😅😅
My guy Yoshinobu Yamamoto has easily one of my favorite deliveries of any professional pitcher. Really makes one reconsider arbitrary mechanical models when someone who throws like this sits mid to upper 9’s. Form follows function I suppose.
Oh also he’s 5’10”, 176 lbs LOL.
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Side view slo motion mechanics of The King of JUCO
@esim69
warming up at 91.9 today prior to hitting 93 (after throwing plyo velo).
Maniac.
@PitchingNinja
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This is how you block. Holy smokes.
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Two 4 seam fastballs, both at 94 mph
one at 90% efficiency
one at 74.7% efficiency
Both pitches had a raw spin of ~2700 rpm. The higher one had a true spin value of 2430rpm and the other a true spin value of 1998rpm . The more true spin, the more movement a pitch has, and in
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Ppl 4 get Tyler came to Driveline for 1 day a couple years ago, took all of the plyo records, and bounced...never to return again.
#Legend
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My guy, free agent
@Awood45
starting off his velocity dev phase with this 91mph bullet. Completed first plyocare velo on Monday, and 100% intent penned today. Really happy with the progress he's already made since his motion capture assessment last week. Looking better than ever!
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People often ask, “what numbers are good for plyos?”
I usually answer like this:
Pretty avg:
Blue, 65
Red, 79
Yellow, 84
Grey, 88
Kinda good:
Blue, 70
Red, 83
Yellow, 86
Grey, 90
Elite/pro:
Blue, 73+
Red, 88+
Yellow, 91+
Grey, 95+
Where do your plyo numbers fall?
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What I love most about using an Edgertronic literally every day is that you get to see the things that people do that create the pitches they want. You see a lot of repeat grips, and a lot of the same issues day to day, but you don't often see a pitch like this.
@PitchingNinja
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THREAD:
I got in an argument with a friend the other day about the slider that Chapman threw to Altuve, and why it was hit 400+ feet.
He argued that the pitch was "good" but was just thrown to a bad spot.
I had a suspicion that it was not that simple, so I looked into the data.
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Japanese star Yoshinobu Yamamoto and the Los Angeles Dodgers are in agreement on an 12-year, $325 million contract, sources familiar with the deal tell ESPN.
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Online trainee, and recent 40 man roster addition for the
@Braves
,
@tucktuck6
, with a 99 yard pivot pick off during his long toss the other day.
It’s been a blast training Tucker thus far, and I’m excited to see him back up here in a couple months.
#TrainConstrained
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First spring training was awesome!! Excited for the second one in a couple months!
#StaySanitized
#OnRampSzn
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My friend
@andrewpsim
threw a scoreless inning this weekend sitting 87-88mph...with a fully torn UCL (yes you read that right). Turns when the baseball gods take away your Tomas Juán ligament twice they also give you Mariano’s power cutter. Solid trade.
@PitchingNinja
#88mphcutter
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It’s been a great time talking pitching and getting to know The Bulldog,
@OrelHershiser
, over the past few days of
@Dodgers
spring training!
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“...and on January 22nd in the year of our lord, 2021, the SSW god’s bestowed upon us this lovely offering, and we saw that it was good.”
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Hitting is hard part 7589976749.
@IndianaBase
2-way guy Matt Lloyd closing the door on the Huskies the other night. These are the last two pitches of the game overlayed, fastball at 93 for a ball and a low 80's breaking ball for the swinging k. This game is gorgeous at 1000fps.
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Knee dominant vs glute dominant. Love this.
Mike Clevinger was trying to recapture FB velo since his '12 TJS.
"I was extending my backside and dumping my frontside toward the plate, so I really wasn’t using my glutes. I was all arm."
Bauer helped him adjust. You can see how Clev drives off the rubber now. 96-98 routinely
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Remote trainee, FA
@Awood45
coming to the end of his on-ramp phase with his first 80+% intent day off the bump.
On ramp areas of focus:
-getting accustomed to weighted ball training and drills
-cleaning up arm path
Alex has absolutely crushed this on ramp. Dude is a warrior.
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You may have been domed up before, but you’ve probably never been, “feeling out hip hinging and hip rotation into foot plant in a Forever 21 during Black Friday last year” domed up.
#ItNeverStops
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Which one is most electric:
❌ A lightning storm
❌ Pikachu
✅ The fact that Max Scherzer will be pitching in the World Series
#MadMax
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“You throw weighted balls?”
“Yeah.”
“Nice, me too.”
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The freedom to be creative with training is something I believe has been stomped out of athletes as they feel they need to follow their program as dogmatic truth, not daring to deviate from the “plan”.
I’m out on that.
Exploration drives progress, doing weird shit is the way ➡️
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.
@Twitter
please do something about this. We (the collective baseball community) have had enough of Mr. O’Leary.
So I'm going to talk about my concerns with respect to Tyler Skaggs.
Given that the medical examiner seems to be waiting on the toxicology results, in all likelihood Tyler Skaggs' death is NOT related to Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS), PICS, or PICaNS.
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Ringing in my 25th time around the sun with a little flat ground high intent work. First time in 6 months, I’ll take a lil 90 piece.
#TrainIt
#FlatgroundKillsPelvisRotation
#ImAlreadySore
#MyHairIsAwful
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It’s great to see trainees gain velo, strength, knowledge etc. But without a doubt the most exciting thing to witness is the cultivation of true self confidence that comes from becoming a better version of a former self. From potentiality to actuality.
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If you’re a professional baseball player and you’re frustrated with nagging injuries, unable to bounce back quickly between outings or are serious about gaining velocity, stop going out drinking.
I know it is seen as “normal”, but normal people get normal results…
#SlightEdge
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*literally anything happens*
My Brain:
Don't say it
Don't say it
Don't say it
Don't say it
Don't say it
Don't say it
Don't say it
Don't say it
Don't say it
Don't say it
Don't say it
Me: “That’s tight!”
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Looks like a logo in the palm vs logo facing the hitter when throwing a slider discussion...logo facing the hitter creates a faint blue line around the axis of rotation when the ball spins gyroscopically making the spin slightly easier to pick up. Credit:
@DrewStoren
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4 years ago today I went on a morning walk in Puyallup, WA. I had a plyo in my hand, and was listening to the new
@GetterOfficial
album.
I found a brick wall by the train tracks and started throwing. A few mins into it, I stumbled upon the Janitor drill…and the rest is history.
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Bulldog, "lower feel", type pitchers often times struggle with the nuances of throwing a quality changeup off of their fastballs. Some common issues in this realm include:
1. spin direction too similar to their FB
2. inconsistent (location/metrics)
Enter the splitter!
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When you know, you know.
Neeraj Chopra won India's first-ever track & field gold medal, and he knew it the second he released the javelin.
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-Craig Kimbrel has a job
-
@AChapman_105
is throwing 102 again
-The Mariners aren’t winning
-
@MikeTrout
is hitting tanks
The baseball world is at peace.
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““Burning the ships” alludes to certain famous incidents where a commander, having landed in a hostile country, ordered his men to destroy their ships, so that they would have to conquer the country or be killed.”
Risk will always be there.
Don’t fail on your heels, onward!
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We may work for different teams, but we can both agree that
@DrivelineBB
plyo balls,
@PitchingNinja
hats, and friendship are absolute essentials during this quarantine.
#QuaranTEAM
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While digging deep into the
@drivelinebases
YouTube channel, I found this little gem from 2012.
People often think that you use heavy balls for arm strength (whatever that term means), and light balls for arm speed...might wanna
#checktape
on that one.
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In the summer of 2014 I was going to quit baseball. My dad (
@TheEdHill
) suggested we go see this “Kyle guy down in Puyallup.” I begrudgingly agreed.
Looking back, that decision was the single most important one I have ever made.
I am forever indebted to
@drivelinebases
.
It's no secret that baseball is changing & one could argue that
@drivelinebases
, founder of
@drivelinebb
, is leading that charge. But what type of person does it take to disrupt an antiquated system like baseball? Watch the 18-minute doc by
@itstaiki
here
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But how could he DRIIIIIIVE off of his back leg???🧐🧐🧐
Charlie Morton threw 10 pitches on a broken leg, sat down for a half-inning, threw six more pitches, the last two of which were a 96-mph fastball and 80-mph curveball to strike out Jose Altuve.
So, yeah, Charlie Morton threw 16 pitches pushing off the mound with a broken leg.
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Find me a 9 year old with a better understanding of intent than Danny Morgan, and I’ll find you a unicorn.
Hint: neither exist.
📽:
@devenmorgan
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You either have it or you don’t guys, can’t develop. It’s just all natural ability.
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Your velo, whether you like it or not, is a direct physical manifestation of your will. Genetics play their role, but ultimately it’s a lot more up to you than you think it is. Playing the “bad genetics” card is no longer an excuse for a lack of improvement.
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Catchers don't get enough love on this damn app. Here's my attempt to change that.
@IndianaBase
catcher
@ryanfineman14
sequences very well. Hips rotating into front foot plant, counter rotation held until ffp takes place, then in almost a wave-like manner, everything unfolds.
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YO this pic of
@AlbertusBarber
is absolutely ELECTRIC. A lot of really cool mechanical pieces on display here; most notably that SUPER ELITE horizontal abduction at foot plant. Positive disconnection on display as well. Pelvis in a 👌🏻 spot, shoulders still closed off. LFG Red🔥
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I tweeted about
@DTreatss
a few months ago when he was punching 93 in games less than a year after elbow and knee surgery back to back. Here he is now punching 96.9 mph in a mound velo. Anyone thinking, “BUT ITS A BALL!!”, save it. I’d love to see you try to do what Drew’s done.
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I’ll never understand the athletes that come out here to “pour everything they have to get as good as they can get”, but spend their time outside the facility playing basketball/flag football for hours, then have the audacity to complain that they’re not making progress. Wake up.
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Today I’m most thankful for objective data, Driveline baseball, pre workout (just like every year), and pulse pounding EDM.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours and make sure to get your plyocare rebounders in after stuffing your face.
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Nice little 103MPH unlock from Mr. Fulmer today during his first (recorded) pulldown session.
#4oz
#TheReturn
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Today was probably the best velo day in Driveline history.
In my opinion, the environment we’ve created here is unbeatable;every guy trying to be the best they can possibly be and simultaneously pulling for everyone around them to do the same.
Question is: Why aren’t you here?
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THREAD: Pitch Design--adding depth to a CB
Step 1:
Identify problem-
-pitch has low spin efficiency (low transverse spin = low movement)
-lacks depth due to slurve spin direction
-popping out/not sharp
Step 2:
Consider potential causes for issues-
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I still throw 3-5 times a week (in some capacity). I’ve found that attempting to improve this skill also makes me a better coach.
That being said, let’s do a poll.
How hard was this blue plyo thrown?
You can reply with your reasoning as well if you’d like.
You have 5 hours.
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The overhead view of the pitching delivery has always been one of my favorites. Gives such a unique perspective to something that most only view from behind or the side. What is your favorite camera angle to watch mechanics from?
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“Intent” and effort can only help you add so much velo.
Eventually it won’t matter how hard you try if you can’t get your body into the positions it needs to be in to get the desired result.
If you can’t move how you need to, more effort will most likely do more harm than good.
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Our friend from the great white north, Free agent
@tgillies57
with a short pen today in preparation for Pro Day this Sunday.
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Our neighborhood grizzly bear
@toby_dunlap
making your average 500lb trap bar deadlift look like light weight. .80m/s and .90m/s respectively on these SPEED deadlifts. Mercy.
#POWAAAAH
@StanEfferding
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Wanna see the most ridiculous thing I've seen today? No?
DON'T CAAAARE here it is. Uncle Charlie I believe they call it. High efficiency, 12:00 axis breaking balls are a hell of a thing to watch.
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Waiter: “Sorry sir we don’t have to-go coffee cups.”
Me: “No worries, I’ll figure something out.”
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Today, after pulling down 99.5 with a baseball,
@HerbieGood
told strength trainer
@ian_walsh11
to throw a few off the mound. He then proceeded to throw 5 fastballs at or above 95mph, in the words of
@TReklaitis
“THATS A PR.”
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All aboard the Laminar Express 🚂🚂
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Glad to welcome 17 year old R&D intern
@erinbristow41
to the facility. She shoved for Taft HS jv baseball this past season, crushes statcast data, and just happens to have some of the best movement patterns I’ve seen thus far this summer. Take notes boys.
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Keep dreaming thinking you’ll get the most out of your training at home, or anywhere else. Come out here and experience it for yourself; it’s an environment like none other.
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How do you improve, regardless of talent level? Make practice harder.
Enter Demosthenes, an ancient Greek orator who took a peculiar approach to improving his speech impediments.
My man was doing these things in 366 BC, and uhh “skill acquisition” wasn’t a thing, he just fio’d.
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Oldie but a goodie
You may have been domed up before, but you’ve probably never been, “feeling out hip hinging and hip rotation into foot plant in a Forever 21 during Black Friday last year” domed up.
#ItNeverStops
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Here is a little video I threw together of free agent
@Karsen_Lindell
's pivot pick progression since joining us in early August. From an execution standpoint the first clip is a yikes from me dawg. There is almost no scap retraction, counter rotation, or positive disconnection.
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