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Asst. Director of Hitting @DrivelineBB | Hitting Coach: MLB, NPB, College | MBA |

Seattle, WA

Joined November 2011

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

Why MLB hitters live in the 4-12° AA range: #AAthread Most pitches at the college & professional level come in with a vertical approach angle of -4 to -8°. Hitters with avg AA's within that range will likely provide more room for error to make flush contact or just make contact

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Andrew Aydt

1 year

MoCap PR for Lars Nootbaar this last week. Hitting this ball 109.2mph, up from 103.5 last offseason! @DrivelineBB @Joney93 Average Bat Speed during this session was 76.6mph 📈

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If the pitcher actually supplied the power 📈

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4 years

RIP to what has become an iconic backdrop

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Nolan talking Bat Speed 🔊 Push yourself! The more time you spend moving fast the more it will become normal and the more precise you’ll become at high speeds. Don’t train slow and have the game speed up Raise your ceiling and your idle speed Interview from @dgoold

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4 years

This is what happens when 4 hitting trainers live together and are quarantined @Tstokey

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

When you PR during your MoCap retest 🛎️ ➡️105mph Bazzana has worked really hard over the last 5 weeks of training to achieve results like these 🧵

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Lars has turned himself into one of the faster swingers in the @MLB with 61 grade Bat Speed during the 2022 season. He continues to build off that for the 2023 season, paired with great contact skills. He’s now above league average in all 3 categories of our Big 3!

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4 years

Big time upgrade to machine work! Random practice and pitch sequences coming soon. Another step closer to training as game like as possible!

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

Love Angled Machine. Angled flips, BP, machine and offset drills are a staple for majority of hitters I work with. But always be aware of stride direction. A hitter will naturally want to stride towards the feeder. Stride direction should stay to the game mound and here's why: 🔽

@CoachEddieSmith

Eddie Smith 🏔📈🏔

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2 years

Monday Night Baseball… come to the valley… #ReachThePeak 🏔📈🏔

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2 years

Quick Bat Path 🧵 Just because your Attack Angle checks out on a Bat Sensor doesn't mean you have a good bat path ➡️that is only one point in time during the swing, at contact This is where the Motion Capture Lab @DrivelineBB comes in. It captures the entire swing

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2 years

The top 5 hitters that created the most runs last year (wRC+): ➡️Bryce Harper ➡️Vlad Jr ➡️Juan Soto ➡️Tatis Jr ➡️Ohtani The average Big 3 grade of these hitters (20-80 scouting scale, 50 being league average): Bat Speed- 72 Bat to Ball- 46 Swing Decisions- 59

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"I just tried to stay on top of the ball, that's it" The best hitters know when to think this based on their individual swing and the pitching matchup. Not all the time Nolan doesn't use this approach all the time... So why did he use it in this situation? Thread🧵

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Bally Sports Midwest

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Nolan Arenado on his walk-off homer: "I just tried to stay on top of the ball, that's it. That's all my mind was thinking: 'Don't work under the ball, work above it.' Thank God it went out." @TheCatOnBallyTV #STLCards

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4 years

Gonna tell my kids this was @JasonOchart

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Now that the 2023 MLB regular season has come to a close, @DrivelineBB we can recap the value we potentially provided our hitters. We look at Surplus Value, how they did above or below projection/expectation. Looking at WAR and the value of that on the free agent market.

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2 years

What 115mph in the air looks and sounds like 💣 ➡️highly recommend sound up for the second clip @JoshSale7

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1 year

Batter’s eye power 👀 just hits different

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2 years

Snippet from a player meeting early in the off-season Talking hip/torso separation and giving the player a few different options on how to address it. ➡️Educate the player ➡️Give them options (it's a convo, not a lecture) ➡️Create an environment for new movement patterns

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1 year

Training Bat to Ball skills and Bat Speed are not mutually exclusive @DrivelineBB ! @Taytram24 is a perfect example of this. When a hitter comes in focused everyday you can have specific intentions on different days of the week & make great progress in multiple areas.

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Andrew Aydt

4 years

Get you a hitter who can do both @MaverickHandley

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Andrew Aydt

3 months

Full round challenge with @TBazzana @DrivelineBB Oppo Angled Machine for depth & direction: ➡️Middle/away going back through the machine for depth and maintaining direction through the ⚾️ ➡️Middle/In going to CF/pulling it for deep tight turns & releasing the barrel correctly

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Andrew Aydt

3 years

Driveline Hitting is headed to Texas! Get dialed in for this spring and #LearnToSlug Check out the details here:

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2 years

How it started ➡️ How it’s going @Tstokey @JasonOchart @maxgordon40

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Andrew Aydt

3 years

. @DrivelineBB Plyo BP with Thunderstick Plyos give great instant feedback on bat path and contact quality. Throwing BP takes the environment one step further. Then adding in the thunderstick gives the hitter an even smaller margin of error than what the plyo already provides

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Andrew Aydt

4 years

As a Cardinals Fan, I know many were okay with not resigning Ozuna since he had a down year in a traditional sense. -BA/OBP/SLG -.241/328/472 But if you take a deeper look he actually had a pretty unlucky year. Let's take a glance at his expected stats versus observed stats.

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

🧵Thursday Topic: Barrels ➡️What is a "Barrel" ➡️Why you should care about them ➡️Player that's having a career year for them ➡️What changed for that player

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3 years

Some of these schools not only added the most talent but also added some great PD Coaches to help develop those players @VandyBoys adds @S__Lizarraga @HailStateBB adds @Devin_Rose_ @MizzouBaseball adds @Mitch_Plazz40 Top recruiting + top Player Development is the new recipe

@CollegeBSBHub

College Baseball Hub

3 years

The schools that added the most talent to their rosters for this upcoming season 👀 2021 recruiting rankings from @PerfectGameUSA

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2 years

Hitters Hit Some of @JoshSale7 's hard hit balls so far in AAA Through 8 games: ➡️Slashing: .375/.444/.813 ➡️HR: 4 ➡️OPS: 1.257 ➡️wOBA: .509 ➡️wRC+: 199 Small sample but just getting started 📈

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. @TBazzana continues to raise his ceiling 📈 Started training hard @DrivelineBB after 2022 Season. Now in 2024 he misses balls in game that are harder than his previous barrels Likely going to crush his 2024 Goals: 96.2/110.8/112.5 for EV's in 2024 thus far in 32 AB's

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Chris Clegg

2 months

Travis Bazzana’s exit velocities from this weekends college baseball series at Globe Life 112.5 110.9 110.8 108.9 108.6 107.1 105.5 102.9 85.7 🔥

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3 years

Threw it right in his wheelhouse @JasonOchart

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KingofJUCO

3 years

BREAKING NEWS TREVOR BAUER...

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2 years

Takes can give you a lot of information as a coach Here's what I'm seeing from this @ByrdHotTakes take and what he's been working on recently #AAThread

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

Bat Speed 📈

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2 years

Everyone says "Trust the Process"... "But what if your process is shit" - @drivelinebases - @doublexcanflex -Andrew Aydt Short clip from talking the current state of hitting training with @MaxDutto_

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Andrew Aydt

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The mindset is what separates the greats Doesn’t matter how many accolades they have racked up, they are still looking to improve and evolve 📈 Last year was a good year, but not up to his standards. Their standards are just that much higher as well

@TheJacobTurner

Jacob Turner

@TheJacobTurner

5 months

Paul Goldschmidt has: Career WAR over 60 11 years of MLB service time Earned around $150,000,000 Yet here he is still grinding to get better. Prospects this is what makes a big leaguer a big leaguer.

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LAD lineup is being talked about as one of the best ever put together, hard to argue with that. This years projected lineup with their 2021 stats ➡️wRC+: 123 ➡️xwOBA: .359 Big 3 on scouting scale (20-80): ➡️Bat Speed: 51.33 ➡️Bat to Ball: 54.44 ➡️Swing Decisions: 58.11 Thread🧵

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"Nootbaar is making me re-evaluate the way I consider prospects, and I bet teams are doing a similar thing. There was no reason to predict he’d turn into a slugger in the big leagues." Train bat speed & ball flight, and refine your approach📈

@fangraphs

FanGraphs Baseball

2 years

Lars Nootbaar Is For Real

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Andrew Aydt

1 year

Great example why training needs to create problem solvers This was just 1 game for 1 hitter: So many different pitch types, speeds, movements, arm angles, & vertical/horizontal approach angles Train in chaotic environments. 1 swing can't cover all of this

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Andrew Aydt

3 years

Come train @DrivelineBB this summer and get your skeleton! Nuff said.

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Andrew Aydt

4 years

New Facility. New @kellenharding

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Andrew Aydt

3 years

My opinion is, if a coach can't translate it to a player, then they are an analyst. The ability to connect/communicate is king. All other aspects just make a coach better and better. But it starts with being able to connect and translate information.

@purehitter

Jim Rickon

3 years

Which characteristic do you feel is the most important in coaching?... -Technical knowledge expertise -Ability to connect/communicate -Understanding of how motor skills and movement habits are acquired

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Andrew Aydt

4 years

Ty Cobb must’ve read @Tstokey blog

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Driveline Baseball

4 years

Ever wonder why you should choke up? @Tstokey studied four different hitting grips and measured their results, which included power, bat speed, attack angle, and more:

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Andrew Aydt

3 years

Throwing short box is a love-hate relationship

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Andrew Aydt

4 years

Reason #1 ,000 why you should train Bat Speed....Club Head Speed for when you retire

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Andrew Aydt

4 years

A couple months back I decided to take a deeper dive into Rotational Acceleration with the help of @dan_aucoin13 . Here is what we found with our data, what exactly rotational acceleration is, what influences it and some ways to work on it!

@DrivelineBB

Driveline Baseball

4 years

Take a break from the "How to Throw' blog series and look at rotational acceleration. Bat speed and attack angle get the most attention, but rotational acceleration can also give coaches valuable insight into a hitter’s swing:

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Andrew Aydt

3 years

"What do you do for a living?" I work at.....uh..... the.....the Bazooka Factory @DrivelineBB

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Driveline Baseball

3 years

Throw gas at the Bazooka Factory this summer.

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Andrew Aydt

4 years

Pumped about the new Blast report/coaches tool from @Alex_Caravan that will be going live soon. It's going to be awesome to include this for all of our Online Hitters in each of their swing breakdowns! So much great info for the athlete and our trainers based off of Blast data!

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Andrew Aydt

3 years

Mass AND Speed matter. That's why at Driveline we use Rotational Kinetic Energy or RKE's to look at how much force a hitter is producing in his swing. And we can look at this by segment to see where there is a disconnect. RKE's adjust for height and weight!

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Andrew Aydt

8 years

Excited to announce I will be continuing my education and my baseball career at McKendree University

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Andrew Aydt

1 year

Bat Speed really helps your low ball flight too 📈 This ball was hit 109.1mph, otherwise it probably doesn't get by a defender as good as Tommy Edman

@MLBONFOX

FOX Sports: MLB

1 year

NOOOOOT 🇯🇵 Japan is on the board after this Lars Nootbaar RBI single! 📺: WBC on FS1

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4 years

118.3mph Pull Side in the Air 👀👀👀👀

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Andrew Aydt

4 years

POP QUIZ: Which @DrivelineBB training bat helps with ▶️Sequencing ▶️Hip/Torso Separation ▶️High Early Connection ▶️Rotational Acceleration ▶️Bat Speed Did you pass?

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

Stanton hitting 3 balls 112+ in one game is crazy. And only one of them being productive is crazy as well. Pretty great example of why hitting the ball in the air or in good LA ranges is so important. Would be fun to watch what Stanton would do with a higher Attack Angle 📈

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

Cage Progression: ➡️Individualized pre-game routine (Tee/FT) ➡️1st Machine: Hitter's Count- hitting balls over 100mph in the RC gap ➡️1st Machine- 2k approach- low line drives at 12 degrees, used skinny & short bats for barrel control & deeper POC ➡️2nd Machine: Mixed Pitch AB's

@DrivelineBB

Driveline Baseball

2 years

. @JoshSale7 has worked tirelessly to get back to playing at the highest level. Here’s what prepping for camp looked like with @AndrewAydt 👇

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Andrew Aydt

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"Baseball is a game of adjustments" But actually you are walking a tightrope of when to make them and when not to Lars Nootbaar has been one of the best at this in 2023 and we might see it again Last 2 weeks: ➡️wRC+ of 100 ➡️Slashing: 200/347/350 Time to make an adj right?

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

Assessment Week: ➡️AVG Bat Speed: 68.7mph ➡️Attack Angle: 16° ➡️Time to contact: .15 The Last Week: ➡️AVG Bat Speed: 74.2mph ➡️Attack Angle: 13° ➡️Time to Contact: .142

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

How it started How it’s going

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

The biggest take away: They made good decisions on when to swing the bat extremely fast.

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Andrew Aydt

3 years

Our @DrivelineBB hitters beat their projection on average by .91 WAR. So what's that worth? The average cost of a win on the free agent market over the last 3 years was $8.6 million. The average return for our hitters: Last 3 years- $7.83 Million Last off-season- $8.28 Million

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Dan Aucoin

3 years

DL's most important KPI (imo) is seeing whether our players beat their @steamerpro projections. What did we find in 2021?? The avg pitcher beat their projection by .16 WAR; the avg hitter by .91 WAR. We even train enough MLB homies now to make a density plot w/o it looking like💩

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Andrew Aydt

4 years

Swing Profiles & Online Hitting anytime, anywhere through TRAQ!

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

You ever have those days where you are really grateful for your career choice? And looking back a lot of decisions that seemed hard at the time, are now obvious since they worked out Because same

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

What's the purpose of the offense? ➡️To score runs And why you should care about: ➡️wOBA ➡️Exit Velocity On average, the harder you hit the ball, the further you are going to move runners. Either scoring them or moving them closer to scoring #HTKC Hitting version coming soon👀

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Andrew Aydt

4 years

"Bats. Barrel Loads. Battlestar Galactica." - @mike_rathwell

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Andrew Aydt

3 years

Reason #1 ,000 I love working at @DrivelineBB . The baseball community is repeatedly pointing out that there is a problem, but no one is talking about a solution. Everyone is pointing out the snake, but no one wants to put in the work to shoot it. That’s fine, we will!

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Max Dutto

3 years

Since @drivelinebases is challenging the hitting world to figure it out and stop whiffing, it's thread/rant time. We'll cover: a.) Training concepts/intentions for better bat to ball skills b.) Why hitting folks are slow to adapt c.) What @DrivelineBB is doing about it

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

Why not see what your potential is and find out how good you can get? Everyone wants to do that but many don't want to train Bat Speed. Bat Speed sets a hitter's floor and ceiling, so if you don't train it, you never give yourself a chance to find out.

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Andrew Aydt

11 years

@youvebeenKOed @loliverrrr http://t.co/MdsX8MWr9R

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

End the lockout vibes coming from AZ. Ready to see dead center 💣's again. This one off the batter's eye from @Taytram24

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Andrew Aydt

3 years

OH MY playoff walk off nuke 👀👀 fire me up @yung_hirshy oops you’re bad

@UTRGVBaseball

UTRGV Baseball

3 years

WALK IT OFF JACOB HIRSH!!!!! WE BEAT #6 @UVUbsb 5-4!!!!! #RallyTheValley #UTRGV #WACbsb

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Andrew Aydt

1 year

Self-Organization can be taken as don't coach and let the player figure it out But you are coaching the environment and the player Set up the environment to make targeted changes, as a roadmap, and then steer the player (cue them) between the lines when needed #AAThread

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Andrew Aydt

10 years

Couldn't be happier to continue playing baseball at JeffCO and see how far I can take it, thanks to everyone who came to the signing today!

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

➡️111.4mph 🚀 31yrs old & his 10th year in the league...hitting his hardest ball of his career Still getting better and training to do so! @Joney93 @DrivelineBB @OnBaseU

@johnsoteropulos

John Soteropulos

@johnsoteropulos

2 years

Awesome article from @JeffPassan going in depth on Nolan’s off-season training this winter, including his time at @DrivelineBB A main focus with Nolan was increasing bat speed. So far in 2022 his avg bat speed is up +2.4mph: ♦️ 2021 = 70.3mph ♦️ 2022 = 72.7mph 📈 +2.4mph

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

I’d say it’s paying off ➡️Career PR at 104.9mph 🚀 - we still don’t round up @andy_schmitty @DrivelineBB

@zachsettles34

Zach Settles

2 years

Huge shoutout to long time Driveline athlete @andy_schmitty . Andy maximized his off-season training at Driveline, especially crushing the weight room. He’s made huge gains across the board in our force plate testing, here’s how we did it:

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

Great side view visual of having the barrel in the zone for a long time ➡️Attack Angle this year: 8° 1 piece of the puzzle as to why he is an above average bat to ball hitter. His attack angle is very close to matching the pitch plane ➡️MLB average fastball comes in around -6°

@PeabodyHitDev

John Peabody

2 years

Charlie Blackmon #ExtraSwings

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Andrew Aydt

4 years

NL Leader in HR's & RBI's: Marcell Ozuna This Thread aged well ⬇️⬇️ This is why advanced stats can give you a better representation of a player & the season that they had

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Andrew Aydt

4 years

The golden standard for measuring a hitter's luck is Batting Average on Balls in Play or BABIP. The league avg is right around .300. Ozuna's BABIP: -Last Season- .257! -His Career- .314 (including 2019) Wouldn't be surprised to watch Ozuna have a big year with the Braves!

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

@clongbaseball Only had to swing the bat 87mph to have a chance at doing this

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Andrew Aydt

4 years

When the Astros get tired of heaters at the chin

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Andrew Aydt

3 years

Players, this applies to you too. Be your own coach. At @DrivelineBB , athlete education is a big focus for us. This allows you to make adjustments much quicker and see better results. It's valuable while you are here, but you will benefit from it the most when you aren't

@TwoFiveBaseball

John Lampros

@TwoFiveBaseball

3 years

Good morning! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tech is only as good as the coach’s ability to use the information to help the player improve.

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

Backside Barrel Alert 🚨 @JoshSale7 going 108.3mph at 18° And with 2 strikes 👀

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Andrew Aydt

4 years

When you have 9 outs in a HR derby, getting on a role and then this happens @ByrdHotTakes @C_Hetz

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

4 Edgertronic Cameras synced is the most underrated part of the lab for our hitters ➡️ Full Motion Capture ➡️ Force Plates in the batter's box ➡️ Synced Edgers ➡️ @HitTraxOfficial ➡️ @Blast_Bsbl OG @cdavis8hits in the Launchpad for the first time

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

What ++ controlled bat speed looks like

@Angels

Los Angeles Angels

2 years

Jo Adell with the first HR of #LAASpring ! ⚾️

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Andrew Aydt

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Mike Trout in 2022 so far: Big 3 grades: (Scouting Scale, 50 being league average) ➡️Bat Speed: 69 ➡️Bat to Ball Skills: 39 ➡️Swing Decisions: 64

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

What is Mike Trout above average at? (Compared to the rest of the league) Big 3: ➡️Bat Speed ➡️Bat to Ball Skills (B2B) ➡️Swing Decisions (SD's)

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@AndrewAydt

Andrew Aydt

2 years

Driveline Hitting was founded by @JasonOchart on these principles Goals/Mission posted at the creation of the Department on Sept 23, 2016, after he was hired by @drivelinebases Pretty fulfilling to be here 5ish yrs later, having crushed that and now pushing hitting forward📈

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@AndrewAydt

Andrew Aydt

1 year

Bat Speed training works 📈 this ball was hammered

@Jared_Carrabis

Jared Carrabis

@Jared_Carrabis

1 year

GRAND SLAM NOLAN ARENADO

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@AndrewAydt

Andrew Aydt

3 years

Contact of Swing 1 (bad result) vs Contact of Swing 2 (better result)

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@AndrewAydt

Andrew Aydt

11 years

I'm going LOKO without you

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@AndrewAydt

Andrew Aydt

2 years

Pretty proud of the systems we have in place @DrivelineBB to obtain these kind of results for hitters from across the world. Training 4 NPB Hitters while in-season these were the results: All training and consulting was done through zoom, slack, & Traq #AAThread

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@AndrewAydt

Andrew Aydt

2 years

Great things to know and please use them together For example, don't implement bullet #2 without understanding #7 . If you swing up at 20-25° you won't be on plane with a fastball at -6 @DrivelineBB we have some of the fastest swingers in the world & don't recommend that AA

@Bmatt0416

Brandon

2 years

From John Mallee - How Science, Analytics Changed Hitting Forever If you have the space (cage space) you can create realistic pitches & bp environments using the Information below.

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@AndrewAydt

Andrew Aydt

2 years

We all need more of this in our lives

@chartball

Chartball

2 years

MLB Bat Tracker: Yordan Alvarez hit a walk-off bomb to win Game 1. @MLB @astros #baseball #dataviz

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@AndrewAydt

Andrew Aydt

4 years

Here’s one of my favorite blog’s by @maxgordon that I use frequently and is very important when working with hitters.

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Andrew Aydt

4 years

The Future of Online Hitting 🔥

@BaseballFreak_9

Anthony Brady

@BaseballFreak_9

4 years

👀👀👀 If you thought yesterday's announcement was exciting.... Well, better buckle up

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@AndrewAydt

Andrew Aydt

2 years

The Big 3 is not about hitting homeruns or one source of production. It's a system to train on field results A great example is @andy_schmitty No HR's this year but: OPS: .995 SLG: .537 OB%: .458 AVG: .400 Leading D3 Nation in Hits

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

@KingofJUCO Good luck recreating that one lol

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@AndrewAydt

Andrew Aydt

4 years

Our online hitting program is always at our athlete's fingertips. Here's a video showing many of it's features from an athlete's perspective on their phone. TRAQ makes it easy and convenient no matter where you are!

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Andrew Aydt

2 years

. @MLB can we get live Bat Speed numbers during the Derby please?!

@mike_petriello

Mike Petriello

@mike_petriello

2 years

So, hey. Something fun. Earlier this year, Statcast began a limited-so-far rollout of actual, in-game bat tracking - speeds, angles, impact points, etc. It's not a full set, but what's there is fascinating, and here's some of the earliest takeaways: --->

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@AndrewAydt

Andrew Aydt

7 months

This is why we train the "Big 3". The majority of our decisions impact a combo of these 3 skills, as we know they are tied to on-field performance. ➡️Bat Speed ➡️Bat to Ball Skills ➡️Swing Decisions Proven year after year @DrivelineBB , more on this in the next few days!

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@AndrewAydt

Andrew Aydt

1 year

There is a lot of overlap in mechanics that benefit B2B skills and Bat Speed Overnight fixes don't get these results. This is a very dedicated hitter working both hard and smart! As @drivelinebases says, ppl overestimate short term results and underestimate long term results

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@AndrewAydt

Andrew Aydt

2 years

Most players overestimate short term training results and underestimate consistent long term training results. If you haven't, take the time to read this blog by @Joney93 Lars is a great example of what's possible with consistent long term training & a good process!

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@AndrewAydt

Andrew Aydt

4 years

The golden standard for measuring a hitter's luck is Batting Average on Balls in Play or BABIP. The league avg is right around .300. Ozuna's BABIP: -Last Season- .257! -His Career- .314 (including 2019) Wouldn't be surprised to watch Ozuna have a big year with the Braves!

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