Solving Youth Arm Injuries in Just 2 Steps Fixing the systems that got us to this place - with an unprecendented amount of youth throwing injuries happening - at scale is pretty simple actually: #1 - Universal rule set #2 - Universale reporting Just becaues it's simple doesn't mean that it'll be easy, so let's talk about it! You can find the Youth Power Bat on our website here for just $99! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/product/youth-power-trainer/ Skills That Scale: The...

How To Help Struggling Hitters How to think about helping struggling hitters, starting with understanding what the problem actually is, then how to best address it. You can find the Youth Power Bat on our website here for just $99! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/product/youth-power-trainer/ Skills That Scale: The Complete Youth Baseball Training Manual is shipping now! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/product/skills-that-scale-training-manual/ Youth Underload Smash Bats are...

Digging Into The Details of Youth Arm Injuries Lance Lynn letting it rip, "Artificial" velocity development and issues / considerations and best practices that you should think about if you want your youth player to stay healthy. You can find the Youth Power Bat on our website here for just $99! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/product/youth-power-trainer/ Skills That Scale: The Complete Youth Baseball Training Manual is shipping...

Mailbag Episode! Answering Listener Questions You guys gave us great questions. We tackled them. Let's do this again! You can find the Youth Power Bat on our website here for just $99! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/product/youth-power-trainer/ Skills That Scale: The Complete Youth Baseball Training Manual is shipping now! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/product/skills-that-scale-training-manual/ Youth Underload Smash Bats are available now - just...

What Is The Point of Little League? (hint: it's development and engagement) The central topic of the episode, inspired by a listener's question, revolves around the purpose of Little League baseball. The question poses a dilemma between focusing on success, particularly in Little League All-Stars, and ensuring a fun experience for all players. The hosts delve into this discussion by arguing that Little League should serve all players but in ways that cater to their different needs. They...

Giving Love to HS Coaches / Fundamentally Wrong Hitting Fundamentals The boys are back in town © Thin Lizzy! Deven and Jeremy are reunited, talking about the love that HS baseball coaches have for teaching the game, HS tryouts, the start of the LL and HS seasons and then a fun segment tearing apart the "fundamental" hitting advice given by a guy who should probably pay as much attention to the competition level of children as he does his keeping his spray tan dialed. You can find...

Building Better Bat Speed With Our New Youth Power Trainer In this episode you guys get an exclusive in-depth preview of our new Youth Power Bat, the research and process of getting it built, along with why swing weight - aka moment of inertia - is the defining characteristic of any bat. You can find the Youth Power Bat on our website here for just $99! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/product/youth-power-trainer/ Skills That Scale: The Complete Youth Baseball Training Manual is...

Whiplash, Weighted Balls and Filling Emotional Gas Tanks A return of the solo podcast! Deven does this show all on his own, and goes fairly unhinged about some of the misniformation surrounding the safety of weighted ball training, the movie Whiplash and the benefits of teaching and coaching with love to fill our player's emotional gas tanks instead of the constant negativity loop that is unfortunately all too common in youth baseball. Skills That Scale: The Complete Youth Baseball...

The Difference Between Learning & Losing Is Context In this episode we talk about the positive culture of our program down in our Arizona, the developmental possibilities when athletes are given the freedom to learn how to move in a way that works for them instead of being forced to arbitrarily move the "right" way, and then spend a whole bunch of time on the need for coaches and parents to provide context to all of the experiences kids will have when learning how to play the game of...

Getting Ready For The Season The Right & The Wrong Way In this episode we spend a good amount of time talking about how to get ready for the season - things that you can do that will help kids go into their first games feeling strong and healthy...as well as the things you can do that ain't that. On top of that we talk a lot about the myth of sport specific training for kids who's ages start with a single digit number...the Youth Baseball Bummer Power Hour is back! Skills That...

Economics of Youth Baseball, LaVar Ball, Context and Pitching To Contact R-Rated Episode! We cover a whole lot of ground in this episode, talking about the Academy's mission to help kids play and train for low or no cost, LaVar Ball and aggressively promoting your kids, providing context for when kid's struggle and the idea of whether pitching to contact has a role in keeping kids healthy. Skills That Scale: The Complete Youth Baseball Training Manual is shipping...

Struggle, Character Building and Choosing To Do Hard Things Whether it's doing drill work off of a roof, biased takes by large MLB content accounts or the heartwarming moments that come from applauding a kid's hard work even if they aren't seeing the results they want, it's another wonderful week in youth baseball! Skills That Scale: The Complete Youth Baseball Training Manual is shipping now! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/product/skills-that-scale-training-manual/ Youth...

Prove Me Wrong! Debate on Training Topics w/ Eric Kozak Deven is joined by Driveline Triple OG Eric Kozak for a healthy - and friendly - debate about a variety of training topics in youth baseball. We get into the weeds of what we do, why we do it, and how convinced we are that our way is the right way. Skills That Scale: The Complete Youth Baseball Training Manual is shipping now! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/product/skills-that-scale-training-manual/ Youth Underload Smash...

Youth Bat Speed Training | Grades Matter for Recruiting We're back, the mic's work, and we're talking about bat speed training - pairing movement speed with movement accuracy using our new Youth Underload Smash Bat - as well as the importance of grades when it comes to opening up doors in recruiting. Skills That Scale: The Complete Youth Baseball Training Manual is shipping now! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/product/skills-that-scale-training-manual/ Youth Underload Smash Bats...

Feeling Thankful / Turning Lemons into Lemonade Development Stories With sales of the Skills That Scale book taking off, and our Youth Underload Smash Bats nearly selling out in 1 day, Deven does a solo pod where he feels very thankful for being a part of this community - the good and the bad - that is youth baseball. Pre-order for the Skills That Scale: The Complete Youth Baseball Training Manual is now...

ABCA Recap & Being "Crazy" About Youth Player Development After many long hours on the convention floor, and just as many hours on planes and in airports, the boys are back from ABCA. We recap the show, and talk in depth about how it feels to be seen as "crazy" when you're doing something different in youth baseball. Let's get nuts. Pre-order for the Skills That Scale: The Complete Youth Baseball Training Manual is now...

Development Requires Different Choices You can't make the same choices as everyone else, hope that you'll get a different developmental result, and then be surprised when you end up in the same place. Pre-order for the Skills That Scale: The Complete Youth Baseball Training Manual is now live! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/product/skills-that-scale-training-manual/ ⬇️ Hosts ⬇️ Deven Morgan https://twitter.com/devenmorgan Jeremy Tecktiel https://twitter.com/jeremytecktiel 🚨...

Part 2 of 2 - going through the entire contents of our upcoming book: Skills That Scale: The Complete Youth Baseball Training Manual ⬇️ Hosts ⬇️ Deven Morgan https://twitter.com/devenmorgan Jeremy Tecktiel https://twitter.com/jeremytecktiel 🚨 Follow Driveline Academy on Social Media 🚨 https://twitter.com/DrivelineYouth https://www.instagram.com/drivelineyouth https://www.facebook.com/drivelineyouth 🔽 Follow Driveline Baseball on Social Media 🔽 https://twitter.com/DrivelineBB...

Part 1 of 2 - going through the entire contents of our upcoming book: Skills That Scale: The Complete Youth Baseball Training Manual ⬇️ Hosts ⬇️ Deven Morgan https://twitter.com/devenmorgan Jeremy Tecktiel https://twitter.com/jeremytecktiel 🚨 Follow Driveline Academy on Social Media 🚨 https://twitter.com/DrivelineYouth https://www.instagram.com/drivelineyouth https://www.facebook.com/drivelineyouth 🔽 Follow Driveline Baseball on Social Media 🔽 https://twitter.com/DrivelineBB...

Participation numbers in youth baseball are going down. That isn't good. Let's talk about how to fix it. Emphasis on Youth Baseball Education: The conversation highlights the significance of not just instructing what to do in youth baseball but also explaining the reasons behind these practices. This reflects a commitment to deeper understanding and education in youth sports. Participation in the ABC Youth Summit: The hosts discuss their participation in the second annual ABC (American...

It's not surprising that kids don't want to watch MLB games when the broadcasters reject simple data that kids find engaging. Our discussion begins with a critical look at the economic aspects of baseball showcases and tournaments. We explore how these events, often seen as gateways to greater opportunities, can impose significant financial burdens on families. The conversation then shifts to the broader implications of these costs, questioning the fairness and accessibility of the sport...

The old "a walk is as good as a hit" saying is absolutely not true at 8U and younger. We need more 2nd-grade Vladimir Guerreros Sr than we do Joe Sewells. Deven sits down to talk about the insanity of giving take signs and conditioning kids to not swing at the 7/8U level and younger, as well as laying out the steps he would take to progressively take a kid from a tee hitting environment into hitting a moving ball. ⬇️ Hosts ⬇️ Deven Morgan https://twitter.com/devenmorgan Jeremy...

Progress isn't linear. So don't expect it to be! Deven and Jeremy discuss the ups and downs of skill development over a long time (for the Academy player discussed on this episode - three years) and how coaches, players and parents can use data, perspective and other tools to guide them through it. ⬇️ Hosts ⬇️ Deven Morgan https://twitter.com/devenmorgan Jeremy Tecktiel https://twitter.com/jeremytecktiel 🚨 Follow Driveline Academy on Social Media 🚨...

Parents are often the biggest problem in youth baseball. Not all of them - but some. It doesn't have to be that way! In this episode we talk about a couple of horrible recent examples of coach and parents behavior, as well as how to address some of the root causes of the innapropriate emotions we see by parents in youth baseball. ⬇️ Hosts ⬇️ Deven Morgan https://twitter.com/devenmorgan Jeremy Tecktiel https://twitter.com/jeremytecktiel 🚨 Follow Driveline Academy on Social Media...