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