Bill Hezel | Driveline Pitching: MLB, Command+, In-Season Monitoring | Driveline R&D Pod Episode 80

Episode 80 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!  
With guests: Bill Hezel 
Our Director of Pitching, Bill Hezel, joins us and we talk what put Driveline on the map originally -- some daggum excellent athlete results. Bill talks navigating the complexities of broadening the department into one also oriented about in-season, on-the-field results as well while dealing with increased MLB attention on poaching pitching trainers. Bill also talks about some exciting new stuff we've got to offer our athletes now like our intended zones command training, biometric tracking, workload tracking integration and gives out some hard-nosed truths on developing and improving MLB-caliber pitchers.
Timestamps 
0:00 Intros 
4:10 Bill's Background 
12:50 Driveline's Pitching Department: 2018-2022 
14:47 The Need for Data Driven Pitching Systems/Buckets 
18:07 Pitching Dept Dealing With Poaching 
21:20 The Educational Support of Driveline's Internal Systems 
23:50 Delivering In-Season, Year-Round Value/Results 
33:40 Driveline's Advantage Plan Broadening Company Mission 
40:04 Dillon Tate's Longitudinal Results w/ DL 
42:50 Command Training Strategy 
53:00 Median Miss Distance on Intended Zones; Command Assessment 
57:15 Tracking Sleep, Biometrics 
1:00:15 Harnessing Intensity (Kershaw Ex)
1:02:50 MLB Teams Wasting Spring Training?
1:05:45 Brady Losing His Mind Over ST PFP's 
1:11:05 MLB Front Office Bias Re: Tradition  
Link to the hosts' + guest Twitters: 
Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan 
Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9 
Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_ Bill Hezel: https://twitter.com/billhezel