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Driveline R&D Podcast

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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.

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Taiki Green - Driveline Roots | Watch Momentum | Trevor Bauer | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 50

February 02, 2021 00:00 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MB

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 engag...

Ethan Moore - How to Get a Job in an MLB Front Office | Baseball Analytics | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep. 49

January 26, 2021 04:32 - 1 hour - 59.1 MB

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 smar...

Ethan Moore - How to Get a Job in a MLB Front Office | Baseball Analytics | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep. 49

January 26, 2021 04:32 - 1 hour - 59.1 MB

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 smar...

Deven Morgan - How to Approach Youth Baseball | Driveline Academy | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep. 48

January 19, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MB

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, a...

Barton Smith - Measuring & Explaining Seam Shifted Wake Pitches | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 47

January 12, 2021 03:10 - 1 hour - 65.5 MB

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 th...

Count Induced Pitch Type Differences | How Crop Hopping Affects Elbow Load | New Lead Leg Block Metrics | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 46

January 05, 2021 03:23 - 1 hour - 61.7 MB

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 ...

Rob Hill - Becoming a Pitching Coordinator | Integrating S&C with Pitching | How the Dodgers Use Tech | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 45

December 29, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 64.7 MB

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 sit...

Eno Sarris - MLB Rule Changes | Seam Shifted Wake | Publicly Available Hawkeye Data | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 44

December 22, 2020 07:08 - 1 hour - 57.1 MB

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 deve...

David Howell - How to Get Into Baseball Analytics | College and Pro Player Development | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep. 43

December 15, 2020 04:06 - 1 hour - 57.4 MB

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...

Kyle Boddy - The Future of Driveline | First Year with the Reds Recap | Driveline Stories | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep. 42

December 08, 2020 03:06 - 1 hour - 76.3 MB

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) h...

Predicting Injury with ML | VAA and Spin Efficiency Model Updates | Force Plate Reliability | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 41

December 01, 2020 18:08 - 1 hour - 65.3 MB

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 publ...

Max Engelbrekt - The Future of TRAQ | Crazy Retirement Story | Introductions to Driveline | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep. 40

November 24, 2020 05:57 - 1 hour - 57.7 MB

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....

Eric Jagers - Beginnings of Pitch Design | Bauer Cy Young | Reds Covid Season Operations | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep. 39

November 17, 2020 14:16 - 1 hour - 65 MB

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: ...

Jason Ochart - Three Most Important Hitting Skills | Getting Into Coaching | Introductions to Driveline | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep. 38

November 10, 2020 05:18 - 1 hour - 71.9 MB

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 i...

Carter Capps - Making a Comeback | Feel vs. Real | Translating Analytics | Driveline R&D Pod. Ep. 37

November 03, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MB

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...

The Boys are Back - Data Dashboards and Web Tools, Example Biomechanics Report, Machine Learning with Biomechanics Data | The Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 36

October 27, 2020 17:12 - 58 minutes - 53.1 MB

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://t...

The Lindley and Brady Breakdown - The Future of Biomechanics, 2017 R&D Internship, and International Work Travel | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 35

October 20, 2020 20:46 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MB

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 ...

Postponed Episode 35

October 12, 2020 22:58 - 42 seconds - 673 KB

Due to some last minute scheduling conflicts, we will not be releasing episode 35 this evening, Monday October 12th. We are pushing to release episode 35 before the end of the week but we will be back online no later than next Monday during the regular live episode time at 4 PM Pacific!  Tune in to that episode for the answer to the riddle!

Luisa Gauci - Women Baseball Scouting Scale | Baseball Australia | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 34

October 06, 2020 07:10 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MB

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_

Catching Up on R&D | Motus Improvements | Tech Agnostic xwOBA | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 33

September 29, 2020 01:02 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MB

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_

Nikolai Yakovenko - Deep Learning | Wall Street | Baseball | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 32

September 22, 2020 04:44 - 1 hour - 65.1 MB

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_

Christian Hook - Newest Driveline R&D Member | Driveline R&D Podcast EP 31

September 15, 2020 08:11 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MB

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' Twitte...

Denton Sagerman - Director of Baseball Operations at Indiana Baseball - Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 30

September 08, 2020 02:15 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MB

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_C...

PitchAI Developments | Cara Chat: APIs | Increasing Layback | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 29

September 01, 2020 01:17 - 1 hour - 61.8 MB

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 increas...

PitchAI Launch w/guest Dr. Mike Sonne | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep. 28

August 25, 2020 18:09 - 1 hour - 81.2 MB

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:...

2020 Sabermetrics w/ Hawkeye | Kyle Lindley Background | Cute Animals and Vision

August 18, 2020 06:08 - 1 hour - 63.3 MB

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...

Rachel Balkovec Interview | Driveline R&D Podcast Episode 26

August 12, 2020 11:04 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MB

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/...

Motus R&D | Training Floor Research Integration | ROM & Injury Research | Driveline R&D Episode 25

August 03, 2020 16:48 - 1 hour - 64.3 MB

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 discussi...

Dan Aucoin Interview (Driveline, Phillies) | Driveline R&D Ep 24

July 27, 2020 18:52 - 1 hour - 74.5 MB

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-Mana...

Biomechanics Conference | When to Use Linear Regression | R&D Content | Weighted Ball Article Review | Driveline R&D Ep 22

July 20, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 62.9 MB

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 sho...

Biomechanics Conference | When to Use Linear Regression | R&D Content | Weighted Ball Article Review | Driveline R&D Ep 23

July 20, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 62.9 MB

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 sho...

Pelvis Counter-Rotation Investy | R vs Python | Batted Ball Flight | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 22

July 13, 2020 19:26 - 1 hour - 64 MB

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 Fli...

Pelvis/Lead Leg/Hip Ext Biomech | Data Normalization | Article Review | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 21

July 06, 2020 20:11 - 1 hour - 65.4 MB

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 revie...

cWAR Questions | TRAQ +EDGE Launch | Analytics Research Ideas | Biomechanics Report Walkthrough | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 20

June 29, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 60.8 MB

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...

Updates | TRAQ + EDGE Launch | Live ABs AZ & ELO Rankings | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 19

June 22, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 59.6 MB

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 Lindl...

cWAR Behind The Scenes | Quantifying ChangeUps | Biomechanics Requests | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 18

June 16, 2020 18:18 - 1 hour - 55.1 MB

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 b...

Driveline AZ Updates | College Baseball WAR | Force Plate Research | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 17

June 13, 2020 23:35 - 1 hour - 63.8 MB

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_Carav...

No Podcast This Week

June 01, 2020 19:00 - 23 seconds - 372 KB

Hey everyone, in light of current events taking place across the country, we did not feel comfortable recording an R&D Podcast this week. We stand in support of racial equality and all those who search for it. Stay safe, we'll be back next week.

Driveline in Arizona | Biomechanics Research | Kinematic Variability | Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 16

May 25, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MB

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 nex...

Episode 15 - Review Week, Research Article Preparation, and PitchAI

May 18, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 64.6 MB

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 referen...

Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 14 - Model Error Analysis, Pitching Energy Transfer, and Article Review!

May 11, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 65.3 MB

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:  Antho...

Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 13 - Updates, Weighted Ball Panel, and Defensive Metrics Article Review!

May 04, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 70.5 MB

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=Vxoay9s...

Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 12 - Updates, Tech Validations, and Workload Research Review!

April 27, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 68 MB

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 dis...

Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 11 - Free Swing Reports, D1 Player Profiles, and Vision Research Review!

April 21, 2020 03:58 - 1 hour - 60.5 MB

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 pit...

Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 10 - Social Media Stats, Cleaning Data, and Another Research Review!

April 13, 2020 20:19 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MB

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 us...

Driveline R&D Podcast Ep9 - Debunking Tweets, WB Mound Study Analysis, & Research Review

April 06, 2020 20:51 - 1 hour - 58.3 MB

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

Driveline R&D Podcast Ep 9 - Debunking Tweets, WB Mound Study Analysis, & Research Review

April 06, 2020 20:51 - 1 hour - 58.3 MB

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

Driveline R&D Podcast - Ep 8: Updates, WB Mound Study, & Gaze Tracking Research Paper Review

March 30, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MB

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 epi...

Driveline R&D Podcast - Ep 7: Monday Morning Bloody Mary's, Technology Partnerships, Article Recommendations

March 23, 2020 19:26 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MB

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!

Driveline R&D Podcast - Ep 6: COVID-19 Thoughts, Project Ideas, Resource Recommendations

March 16, 2020 19:00 - 37 minutes - 51 MB

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-velo...

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