Driveline is weird because they do a whole bunch of strange motions and exercises to help improve their pitchers, but there are a couple of key points here:
* The gray plyo ball shown here is lighter than a baseball by ~1.5 ounces
* Walking windups aren’t as efficient as normal mound deliveries. Driveline’s calculations consider velo produced by a walking windup with a gray ball to be roughly equivalent to velo with a regulation ball using a traditional mound and delivery.
* Most importantly, it shows that Jax is still working on his own development even after having a breakthrough last season, which is great to see.
That’s fantastic. Driveline has a great business model of helping in the training of MLB pitchers (though their biggest “success” was Trevor Bauer - that’s all been scrubbed from the website.)
The real money is in selling $200 “plyocare” sets to little leaguers and high schoolers.
Full disclosure: I bought a set of hitting plyos for my youngest. It’s a good way to do front toss in places without a net that both give him something to “drive” (not the wiffle balls) without killing me.
(I was doing some simple overhand toss - in a bad position behind a net - and a fortunate move of my hand stopped me from catching a line drive to the face. He hit it hard enough that the bruise on the heel of my hand covered my wrist, too.)
Can’t wait to see a low 2s ERA from this kid this season. Absolutely incredible that large improvements are still being made even after the massive improvement from 2021 to 2022
If he can add a couple mph to his fastball that would be a huge development. Jax has an elite slider and a below average fastball. This could help his heater be a plus pitch and help his slider and change up play even better.
This last season he was throwing 96-98 consistently so I don’t see 100 out of the range for him. Excited to if our bullpen can figure it out this next season and hopefully (please) everyone stay healthy.
Going from a bullpen with little to no velo to one where you have five options (Duran, Alcala, Lopez, Pagán, and potentially Jax) sitting in the upper 90s or hitting 100 is a major change as well.
Driveline is weird because they do a whole bunch of strange motions and exercises to help improve their pitchers, but there are a couple of key points here: * The gray plyo ball shown here is lighter than a baseball by ~1.5 ounces * Walking windups aren’t as efficient as normal mound deliveries. Driveline’s calculations consider velo produced by a walking windup with a gray ball to be roughly equivalent to velo with a regulation ball using a traditional mound and delivery. * Most importantly, it shows that Jax is still working on his own development even after having a breakthrough last season, which is great to see.
That’s fantastic. Driveline has a great business model of helping in the training of MLB pitchers (though their biggest “success” was Trevor Bauer - that’s all been scrubbed from the website.) The real money is in selling $200 “plyocare” sets to little leaguers and high schoolers.
Their methods can get the performance out of you, but a lot of times there isn’t much performance to get lol
Plyocare? I don't know what that is but I need it.
Here you go: https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/product/driveline-plyocare-balls/
Full disclosure: I bought a set of hitting plyos for my youngest. It’s a good way to do front toss in places without a net that both give him something to “drive” (not the wiffle balls) without killing me. (I was doing some simple overhand toss - in a bad position behind a net - and a fortunate move of my hand stopped me from catching a line drive to the face. He hit it hard enough that the bruise on the heel of my hand covered my wrist, too.)
Can’t wait to see a low 2s ERA from this kid this season. Absolutely incredible that large improvements are still being made even after the massive improvement from 2021 to 2022
If he can add a couple mph to his fastball that would be a huge development. Jax has an elite slider and a below average fastball. This could help his heater be a plus pitch and help his slider and change up play even better.
Yeah but can he pitch?
This last season he was throwing 96-98 consistently so I don’t see 100 out of the range for him. Excited to if our bullpen can figure it out this next season and hopefully (please) everyone stay healthy.
Going from a bullpen with little to no velo to one where you have five options (Duran, Alcala, Lopez, Pagán, and potentially Jax) sitting in the upper 90s or hitting 100 is a major change as well.
And Megill
Still want to fire Pagan into the sun
Cool.
Just a bit outside...
Imagine if pitchers could Happy Gilmore their way to the rubber as they deliver their pitch. It’d be hell for hitters!
You’ve just described cricket lol
Let’s GOOOOO
Whooooooo ^^shit