Can Schwarber be the 45-plus home runs he has played in his career in recent years? What if he trained at Trajekt in 2016? Or is there no alternative gaming experience?
I asked Driveline Assistant Batting Director Andrew Aydt If their career could pull the sting forward earlier, we see it later in our career.
“I think that certainly accelerates,” Eddette said. “It’s definitely something we work with batsmen, to be able to learn to pull the ball into the air and correctly and to know when to shoot in certain situations and counts.”
Every batsman who swings on Driveline almost always has a goal and their mission is to try to hit the ball. This target is usually in the air, upward.
In recent years, training has undergone great changes and will have a significant impact on development trends.
“When you grow up, most of the time, you never actually have any coach telling you to pull the ball into the air,” Edette said. “Always, you know, ‘hit line drives the middle’.”
Few players, like JD Martinez, realize the benefits of the Pall-air method before their own pre-sows, Lead him Make significant swing changes and significant breakthroughs in 2014. Martinez [L-screen in batting practice]? OK, that’s a fucking single. ”
It’s different now.
While many players may not be sure how to handle that data when they debuted in 2015, now everyone knows where to optimize the flight of playing.
There were 5,532 draws in the 2015 season compared to 9,198 times this season, up 66%. The average launch angle increased from 11 degrees in 2015 to 13 degrees this season.
So maybe the pull-aging curve will look different over the decade starting now.
If that’s true, it seems to put older players at a greater disadvantage and further emphasizes the player ranks.
But we also don’t want to assume that skills must remain static so that players cannot impart their abilities through different training methods, thus better avoiding father’s time.
Older players can improve the speed of the bat and exit speed – if such players are new to such training programs, it may be particularly impactful.
Consider a case Mookie Betts and Nolan Arenado, Both of them were trained in Driveline.
In late August 2021, Arenado Joey Votto At the first base. Arenado was curious about how the Reds’ first baseman, who was 37 years old, resurrected. After years of power decline, not only did the Votto Slug 36 home run that year, but also noticed that his exit speed soared.
“I was like, ‘Man, what happened?
Votto tells him his secret, his youth source: Bat Speed Training.
After the season, Arenado headed to Dynamics and released the 149 WRC+ and 7.2 FWAR in the following campaign, his 31-year-old season – the best of his career.
Recently Arenado performed a motion capture at the Arizona Complex in Driveline and intends to train with us again in the offseason.
Stokey worked closely with Betts in 2023, when Betts enjoyed a peak two-inch/hour at export speeds that year, an average career-high 92.4 mph at age 30. This is crucial to his success.
Bates’ revival this season begins with bat speed training in mid-August.
They prove that players can improve bat speed and potential power skills in their 30s.
Stokey said the ideal of bat speed training starts with a career, but is “important for people of all ages”.
This leads us to an interesting question: What would the power aging curve look like if every player trained their entire career with bat speed? After all, this kind of scheme will become increasingly common in the future.
“My best guess is that the starting point will be higher,” said Stokey of Bat Speed. “The baseline will be higher, and (bat speed) may not drop dramatically. Maybe the point it drops from about 29 to 31 to 32, 33, 34. … It will start to gradually decrease in a similar way, but it may be delayed for a few years until it does fall.”
That might be what the future will look like.
Young people will always be an advantage, but if the batsman can flatten the aging curve and delay dramatic drops, that has a significant impact on how the player performs in arbitration and free agents.
The following data may produce an evolving aging curve, but what we need to do now is that players who are not increasing the speed of the bat (not focusing on optimizing the ball flight) are more likely to be left behind.
