Driveline

• Using the Axe Bat Long Trainer & Speed Trainers in a Team Setting
  More and more coaches across the country are implementing overload/underload implements into their hitting programming to develop their hitters. While the Axe Bat Speed Trainers and the Axe Bat Long Trainer both come with initial baseline programming, or can also be used in conjunction with our free 6 week hitting program, one of the most […]
• The Complexities of Youth Baseball Development
  Every year, there are many discussions on what makes a player good enough to be a top pick in the draft, a top prospect, or simply a top player at the MLB level. Inevitably, these discussions cover a wide range of opinions that typically return to looking at how a key point in their development […]
• Validating Rapsodo 2.0: Pitch Design Made Easier
  As player development in baseball continues to rapidly evolve, the demand from coaches and facility owners to integrate sophisticated, reliable, and affordable technology into their players’ training plans has never been higher. In recent years, many products have entered the marketplace attempting to capitalize on this new-found demand for data-driven programming, but few have been […]
• Quantifying Swing Decisions: An Individualized Approach
  Overshadowed in an age of attack angles, launch angles, and bat sensors lies arguably one of the most fundamental, and perhaps misunderstood, concepts in all of hitting: swing decisions at the plate. What’s the count? Who’s pitching? What’s the score? Where was the pitch located? What was the quality of the pitch type that was […]
• Implementing the Axe Long Bat into Training
  The Driveline Hitting Program is all about creating individualized programs to maximize player development. To accomplish this, we use several tools in varying degrees for each player, because each tool is designed to target specific swing flaws. The tools that people are most familiar with are our Hitting Plyos and our Bat Speed Trainers, but […]