Episode 77 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!  
With guest: John Soteropulos  
A long-overdue Hitting Training episode! John Soteropulos, Hitting Trainer at Driveline who masquerades as a **filthy** pick-up b-ball player, talks about his own playing career, the beefed up Hitting Assessment at Driveline, the future of hitting motion capture, and gets into the nitty gritty of manipulating constraints in the gym to get what we all want...more xwOBACON!   
(Only way this episode could have been more gas was if the last story didn't get cut out of the final episode...scope Joney's reaction in the last frame)  
Timestamps:  
0:00 Intros 
3:04 Soter's background 
7:47 Hitting Assessment Changes from 2018-2022 
12:40 Value Add from Hitting MoCaps 
18:25 Head Start with Applied Hitting (vs Pitching) Biomechanics 
20:14 Big 3 at DL Hitting 
23:10 DB Viewer, Democratizing Insights Internally at DL 
26:02 Value of Assessing/Retesting 
27:30 Training: Getting Machines Dialed + Correct Positive/Negative Feedback 
32:46 Manipulating Environment and Bat/Ball Implements 
35:13 In-Season v Offseason Hitting v Throwing Programming 
38:22 How to Increase Bat Speed 
41:55 Weighted Bats/Balls used at Driveline; Utilizing Their Feedback 
46:20 Learning and Applying Sabermetrics in Training 
53:30 Cara/Soter Huge 1/1 Basketball Bet 
54:42 Seeing Your Impact on The Field 
59:10 Soter's Approach to Content Game + Censored Story 
 
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_ 
John Soteropulos: https://twitter.com/Joney93