Driveline R&D Podcast

By Anthony BradySports Baseball

Driveline R&D Podcast episodes

April 25, 2022 The Ben (Jones) & (Jared) Jerry (Skolnicki) Epi | Sports Sci Research | Driveline R&D Pod Episode 79
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:
1 hr 19 min
April 18, 2022 Joe 'Yabin' Marsh | The Beginning of Driveline R&D | Driveline R&D Pod Episode 78
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
1 hr 19 min
April 11, 2022 John Soteropulos | Applying Hitting Sabermetrics, Motion Capture, Tech | Driveline R&D Pod Ep 77
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
1 hr 6 min
April 04, 2022 Connor White | The Future of Data Driven High Performance | Driveline R&D Pod Ep 76
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_
1 hr 25 min
March 28, 2022 Just The Boyz | Energy Flow + Broad Jump, Lateral Bound Performance | Driveline R&D Pod Ep 75
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_
1 hr 3 min
March 21, 2022 Chris Langin | When to Add a Sweeper to Your Pitch Arsenal | Driveline R&D Pod Ep 74
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
1 hr 15 min
March 14, 2022 Brandon Mann | 18 Year Pro: MLB, NPB, CPBL | OG DL Trainee to DL Trainer | Driveline R&D Pod Ep 73
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
1 hr 13 min
March 07, 2022 David Besky & Kyle Wasserberger | Applied v Academic Biomechanics | Driveline R&D Pod Ep 72
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
1 hr 5 min
February 28, 2022 Eric Jagers 2 | New Age Player Dev'l | Driveline R&D Pod Ep 71
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
1 hr 14 min
February 21, 2022 Nick Martinez | Tracking Workload in the Big Leagues with PULSE | Driveline R&D Pod Ep 70
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_
57 min

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