Maxx Garrett - Modern Catcher Training | Framing Research | OG CR Stories | DL Research & Drinks #95 Driveline R&D Podcast

Had the legend Gary on -- will fill out this description more and drop timestamps when I'm not running late to a rendezvous (aka Tuesday morning). But v fun one talking about the research we've done on catcher framing, how Driveline trains catchers, the changing perception on catchers, Driveline's current Hitting Assessments and some throwback CR story classics from the Massage Ball to the Cod ;)   



Timestamps 

0:00 Intros 

2:30 Gary's Intro to DL 

4:25 Driveline's OG Hitting Environment 

8:07 Driveline 2023 Hitting Training Approaches and Drills 

13:08 The State of Catching Research and Training  

16:13 Exchange vs Ball Flight Time 

20:57 Low Hanging Fruit on Position Player Throwing and Workload 

22:55 Do Catchers get the yips?? 

25:25 What's Hard To Catch? 

28:28 Driveline's Behind The Scenes Framing Research 

34:24 One Knee Getting More Popular? 

38:00 Statcast Catching Metrics & Mainstream Framing WAR  

41:22 Favorite Catchers + Brad Penny callback 

45:10 Driveline Customer Relations Legendary Stories 

57:50 Force Plates re: DL Hitting



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