Rob Hill graduated from NAIA Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA with a degree in Communication Studies. He pitched collegiately at Skagit Valley College ant Westmont College. While he was finishing up his playing career, he accepted an internship at Driveline Baseball as a pitching trainer. He has spent time at Driveline as both a trainee and trainer where he was one of the biggest enforcers of the training culture. After finishing out his playing career, he accepted a full-time position as a pitching trainer at Driveline and worked his way to Coordinator of In-Gym Development. After establishing himself as one of the top private pitching trainers in the country, Rob accepted a job as the Pitching Coordinator of Technical Development for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In this episode we talk about how he was thrown into the fire that is Driveline College Summer and how that was the foundation of his evolution of Rob Hill the trainee to Rob Hill the trainer. I ask Rob to talk about the care factor and and tell a story about how he was able to get the most of an athlete that he worked with at Driveline. He talks about training hypermobile athletes and exploring the proverbial corners and how he experimented with himself. Finally, we get into coaching as a specialist or a generalist and if it’s possible to do both. Where can you find Rob on social media? Twitter: @Berticushill Instagram: @robapotamus // Where can you find me on social media? Twitter: @KyleRogers18 Instagram: @klrogers28.

Sam Briend graduated from NCAA DIII Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, GA with a degree in Psychology. He played professional baseball at the Independent level in the CanAm and Pecos Leagues. While he was playing, he began helping to coach at Oglethorpe University where he as a pitching coach and the head strength and conditioning coach. After his playing days, he coached in the Northwoods League, a summer college baseball league, where he was introduced to Mike Rathwell and Kyle Boddy at Driveline Baseball. He then spent 3 years at Driveline Baseball working his way up from a floor trainer to the Director of Player Development. He recently accepted a position as Director of Pitching for the New York Yankees and is entering his second season, first full season, with the organization. In this episode, we take a deep dive into Sam’s background and some of the characteristics that led him to his position he holds today. He talks about his days as an indy ball grinder living in a remodeled barbershop with 20 other guys and how his competitiveness helped him get through it. Sam talks about his ability to take initiative to get things done and how his experience working multiple jobs helped develop that characteristic. We talk about some of the challenges that he faced going from coaching athletes directly to now being in charge of developing the coaches that coach the athletes and we dive into how continuing to train to throw can help ones ability to coach. Follow Sam here: Twitter: @sbriend97 Instagram: @sbriend. // Twitter: @KyleRogers18 Instagram: @klrogers28.