Driveline Baseball - a New Hitting Philosophy

[MFS62]

Across baseball, the rise of modern, data-driven player development has produced success stories. It has saved careers. It has also frustrated players and disrupted growth. Its influence has, rightfully, become deeply embedded in the game. But the approach has sometimes shut out or quieted coaches and players who weren't fully on board. The question is no longer whether Driveline and the movement it helped popularize have changed hitting in recent years. It's what the game has gained, and may have lost in the process.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/polarizing-hitting-approach-took-over-mlb-driveline-baseball-kristian-campbell/

It has both helped and hurt.

Your thoughts?

Later

[whippoorwill]

I really hate seeing coaches, buddies, or anyone else messing with a guys swing if he’s already seeing success. 
if they need help then yes, help them. 
I hope this kid reverts back to form and tells them all to gets stuffed 

[smg58]

Teams (other than the Brewers) seem to have forgotten that OBP is more important than slugging.  Any player can become more selective at swinging, and it will help them.  That was always the basic rule.  There is a tendency in baseball right now to take a one-size-fits-all approach with hitters, but that does more harm than good with a lot of them. 

As a Mets-related example, Jeff McNeil has actually hit over .300 since July started.  His power isn't where it was in his best seasons, but it's almost like somebody finally told him, "Just do what got you here."

With Kristian Campbell, I think the bigger issue is that he hurt himself.  If it were as simple as him not swinging at sinkers that drop out of the strike zone, that wouldn't be Driveline's problem.  Just like it's not a tech guru's problem if AJ Ewing can't stop chasing curve balls down and away.

But I think the big problem -- and it's far worse with pitchers -- is that people have all these data now but don't know how to use them,  Geeks are crunching out the numbers, but they're still being interpreted by dumb jocks.