Episode 5 Season 5 is out with Baseball Cloud’s Michael Koltak and Jonny Gomes. Baseball Cloud is a leader in harnessing sports technology and producing professional software solutions for users around the world.

Jonny Gomes is currently the VP of Strategic Partnerships within Baseball Cloud. Jonny had an impressive MLB career, playing with 8 organizations and winning 2 World Series

Michael Koltak is the Director of Strategic Partnerships & Business Development at Baseball Cloud. He also has a very interesting background within the Lexington Legends organization as a

a former VP, player, and coach.

Michael and Jonny talk about the future of baseball analytics within player development and advanced scouting at levels of baseball.

Both of these individuals have great insights to what technology and analytics will look like in the next 10 years

Episode 4 Season 5 is out with Garrett Baker. He is currently an Integration Pitching Coach within the Mets organization.

Garrett obtained his Master of Science in Exercise Science - Sports Psychology while also having a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and Exercise from Cedarville University.

Garret’s background includes coaching within 4 colleges and Powerhouse Performance Training. Garrett talks about using all of his backgrounds from pitching, S&C, and Sports Psychology towards the development of pitching.

Garrett talks about using the Ecological approach and overall human movement from Ido Portal to progress pitchers into an overall skillful approach towards development.

Episode 3 Season 5 is out with Alex Caravan. Alex is currently the Director of Data Science at Driveline Baseball. He is also Co-Host of Driveline Research and Drinks Podcast. Alex graduated from University of California - Berkeley with a Bachelors degree in Economics and Statistics.

Alex talks about what his role as Director of Data Science entails at Driveline and how is able to work with different departments within the company.

We go into discussion about overall projections that Driveline has been looking into or currently using within the facility. Driveline recently released its public motion capture data from their biomechanics lab. Alex talks about what that means for potential analysis and what trends will be looked in the future.

Alex talks about his overall role as Co-Host of Driveline’s R&D podcast. He explains what the backend of the podcast is truly like, working with two other hosts, and obtaining guests.

Driveline continues to show that they are a leading edge within player development. Driveline has many of their employees hired into professional organizations and 2023 was a huge year for this.

Episode 2 Season 5 is out with Seamus Kenneally. He is currently a Strength & Conditioning at Break Through Fitness Cincy while also being an assistant coach for both Kings High School (Cincinnati, OH) and Cincinnati Bulls Summer Organization.

Seamus graduated and played college baseball at Marietta. Seamus talks about all the trials and tribulations he encountered while in college. These included injuries, COVID-19, and overall development.

Seamus is very passionate about overall athletic development. As a Strength & Conditioning coach his overall goal is not only for athletes to get big and strong but to have total control of their COM (Center of Mass). By implementing systems that all for these adaptations he believes that he can get the most out of every athlete.

Seamus is currently an assistant coach for Kings High School (Cincinnati, OH) and Cincinnati Bulls Summer Organization. Shea talks about what it’s like to help completely change the culture of a high school into respectable player development and winning organization. He talks about not only the baseball qualities to improve an organization but how their ultimate job is to help develop boys into men.

Seamus has a very bright representation of what it’s like to holistically develop baseball players while also teaching them about life’s challenges. Seamus has become a great mentor to many players and his influence will only grow in the years to come.

Episode 1 Season 5 is out with Easton Miller. Easton is currently the head of Strength and Conditioning at KOVA sports. KOVA is an inclusive baseball training center pertaining to Hitting and Throwing development while also focusing on overall athletic health. The overall goal of the facility is to help athletes reach their maximum potential.

KOVA is quickly becoming an influential facility located in Texas. KOVA has implemented an overall education system for the progression of innovative technology and concepts toward player development.

Easton started his career at KOVA as an intern while working under Grant Fowler. Fowler introduced overall French Contrast, Extreme Isometrics, and plyometric training. Easton goes on to explain KOVAs overall implementation of Strength & Conditioning. Easton talks about he programs his athletes within the weight room and pertains to his weekly progressions of athletes.

Easton has implemented a week-by-week programming style working with high school and college athletes. He talks about how to implement proper programs while taking into consideration what athletes are doing at their primary schools. His overall goal is to teach athletes to learn how to listen to their bodies and progress in their overall development holistically.

Episode 36 Season 4 is out with Noah Junis. Noah is currently the assistant director of pitching at Premier Pitching Performance located in Wentzville, MO. Before working at PPP, he was the Pitching Director at Push Performance in Tempe, AZ. While his overall first coaching position was at Illinois Central College.

Noah talks about his overall start in coaching and how he overall progressed into pitching development. Noah explains what overall role is entailed at Push Performance and how it was such an eye-opening experience within biomechanics, S&C, and movement assessments.

Noah explains what Premier Pitching Performance is in relation to private sector facilities. PPP has become well known for its overall assessment of biomechanical data, strength vs power evaluation, and pitch design. Over the past couple of years, PPP has become a consultant towards collegiate programs helping with the overall assessment process and program design.

Season 4 Episode 35 is out with Alex Reynolds. He is currently a pitching intern at Cressey Sports Performance located in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. He graduated from Babson College with a M.S. in Business Analytics. While also graduating B.A. in a Business Analytics and Finance. He played 5 years of college baseball at Babson and his main position was a catcher

Alex talks about why he picked business analytics as a major and why it’s such a good degree for future analytically mindset individuals. During his time at Babson, he underwent Tommy John Surgery. During this time, Alex along with Eric Schoenberg wanted to create a platform for athletes to share their experiences and offer support with their TJ Surgery & rehab process.

Alex explains his overall role at Cressey and what the future of CSP Pitching entails. Within Cressey, Alex is able to dive completely into the development side of pitching while using his analytical skills to provide value within overall player progression profiles.

Season 4 Episode 34 is out with Colton Lovelace. Colton is the Director of Analytics and Video at Oklahoma State University. Colton began his overall path to Oklahoma State University starting at Kansas University as an equipment manager. He eventually worked his way up to becoming the Director of Analytics and implemented technologies such as Rapsodo, TrackMan, BATS! & Edgertronic Cameras.

Colton spent the summer of 2021 working in the Appalachian League working as a Data and Video Intern. Colton furthered his overall knowledge of player development technologies and data throughout his internship.

Colton goes in-depth into his overall experience within Oklahoma State University. He talks about his overall interview with OSU that including the entire coaching staff and OSU’s 2022 season which includes a top 10 ranking.

Colton talks about what has made Oklahoma State so successful over the past 2 years. He talks about the overall data technology implementations they have used, data interpretations towards player development, and the scouting strategy they have used.

Season 4 Episode 33 is out with Marek Ramilo. Marek is currently a Quantitative Trader. He is also an R&D Analyst with Driveline baseball working with overall player projections and finishing his degree from the University of Chicago in Financial Mathematics.

Marek graduated from Yale University with a BA in Economics. Marek talks about his time at Yale and explains how he decided to get into trading. Marek explains what exactly a Quantitative Trader does and why it is such an interesting position to be in.

Marek played baseball in high school but didn’t realize how quantitative theories can help play into overall player progression models until a couple of years ago. Since he has become fascinated with using his ideology within baseball.

Marek talks about how the MLB draft can become so Quantitative based in the future and why two-way players might become the future towards front office organizations.

Season 4 Episode 32 is out with Frank Andrews. Frank is currently a High Performance Development Coach at Baseball Ireland & Irish National Baseball Team Head Coach. Frank obtained his BS in Exercise Science/Biology at Concordia University and MS in Strength and Conditioning from Limerick Institute of Technology.

Frank explains specifically how the National Team operates and his experience within the European Pool Qualifiers. Frank talks about his experience within Strength & Conditioning and the differences between USA and Abroad. Frank explains how he originally got the job with Baseball Ireland and how he started to expand the Irish Baseball Academy.

Frank is a very independent think about Strength & Conditioning and Baseball. Frank talks how he is creating adaptations towards his athletes in order to maximize their baseball playing abilities. Frank goes in-depth talking about his philosophies towards throwing and why anatomically throwing originates anteriorly rather than posteriorly.

Season 4 Episode 31 is out with Benjamin Jones. He is currently a Sports Scientist at Driveline Baseball located in Kent, WA. Benjamin obtained his MA and BS in Exercise & Kinesiology from the University of Puget Sound and San Jose State University. Benjamin has an extensive background within his internship route ranging from high school, college, and professional levels. These included Albany high school located in Albany, CA, St. Mary’s College located in Moraga, CA, San Jose Sharks, and the University of Utah.

The Sports Scientist role has become a huge part of professional and college organizations. A Sports Scientist’s background can range on many different levels from academic to former strength coach. Data has become a huge integration piece of sports towards the overall evaluation of sport. Ben goes on to explain his experience learning how to code and the overall hurdles he had to accomplish.

Driveline baseball has become the data-driven center for baseball player development. Ben talks about his experience working in the Motion Capture Lab every day and why it is so important for Driveline Baseball. He talks about how important data is in the sport of baseball and why it’s only going to grow over time.

I really enjoyed my time talking to Benjamin and learning about the growing field of Sports Science!

Season 4 Episode 30 is out with Carter Hohn. Carter is currently the Throwing Coordinator at BRX Performance location in Milwaukee, WI. During his college career, Carter attended 4 different schools. Carter graduated from Central Christian College of Kansas with a BS in Kinesiology & Exercise Science. During his college career, Carter trained at Driveline for about 6 months learning how to progress in his own player development.

BRX Performance is a baseball facility that specializes in custom S&C and throwing programs. BRX does a fantastic job of combining the role of S&C with throwing allowing for overall exceptional workload management. Carter talks about how BRX shows the continuing education factor towards the facility by having staff meetings every morning and breaking down current clients’ deficiencies in throwing & in the weight room.

Carter talks about BRX’s style of programming explaining how the facility leans heavily towards using plyos. BRX wants the athlete to work through basic primary movements of the throwing and heavy emphasis on workload management. One of the main goals for the facility is for each athlete to understand how to manage their workload throughout each season.

Season 4 Episode 29 is out with Jordan Oseguera. Jordan is currently the Director of High Performance at Armcare.com. Jordan has an extensive background working in professional baseball. Before working in professional baseball, Jordan worked for the National Pitching Association. This gave him the honor of working with Tom House and learning his styles of player development progression.

Jordan had an interesting experience working in professional baseball. During his time, he worked in the Los Angeles Angels organization working in multiple roles from Assistant Programs Manager, Pitching Coach, Professional Scouting, Amateur Scouting, and Pitching analyst. Jordan assisted in designing pitching development programs. He helped introduce innovative tools to track the progression of pitchers. This would allow for the organization to grow as a whole and lower pitching injuries within the organization.

Jordan has become an innovative name in the pitching industry. As director of high performance for ArmCare.com, he assists with the overall onboarding and implementation of testing, training, and tracking within professional & collegiate baseball. ArmCare.com is truly changing the way pitchers take care of their arms in a custom manner.

Season 4 Episode 28 is out with Jack Barry. Jack Barry is the owner of Jack Barry Performance. Jack’s goal “Is to be able to help all athlete’s performance offering quality programming, workload management, nutrition, mental prep, and recovery”. Jack became a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association in 2021.

Jack has great background playing and working in player development. Jack played college baseball at Salisbury University. He played infield and pitched during his college career. After, his playing career Jack took a position with Tread Athletics. During, this time at Tread athletics he learned what it takes to program a holistic approach and quality programing towards each individual athlete.

Jack decided to leave Tread athletics and pursue a career in broadcasting. He started to broadcast at his former school Salisbury University and broadcasted many different sports during this time. During 2022, Jack decided to take a Director of Media relations job with Cropdusters baseball (Currently in the Cal Ripken Summer Collegiate League). During this time Jack realized that his passion was work one – on – one with athletes.

Jack and I go in-depth talking about pitching development and what areas of development each of us are most interested in. This talk leads into a wide arrange of development strategies. During this time, you can definitely tell that development is Jack’s passion.

Season 4 Episode 27 is out with Nathan Jones. Nathan owns Elevation Athletic Performance located in Cassville, MO. Nathan prides his facility on quality Strength & Conditioning programs to help athletes reach their full potential.

Nathan started EAP in 2021 and has seen a lot of growth in the last year. Nathan goes in-depth talking about how to start a facility but more importantly knowing your population demographic. Nathan found his niche in Cassville, MO by offering best quality training programs and atmosphere.

Nathan spent time as an OPP Intern (Optimal Power Performance located in Tempe, AZ) in 2021. Nathan talks about how this was such an eye-opening experience for him and what quality player development entails. Nathan talks about how his experience gave him the confidence to learn and explore the field of strength & conditioning in a positive manner.

Nathan is a huge proponent of the conjugate method for athletes. Nathan goes on to talk about why he uses this method and why it is so helpful to all athletes no matter what season they are currently in (Off-Season, Preseason, In season, Postseason).

Please join me in listening to Nathan and his shared experiences about Strength & Conditioning!

Season 4 Episode 26 is out with Robert Frey. Robert is the lead developer for Prep Baseball Report. His role at Prep Baseball Report is to make all data more concise to the public. Robert’s goal is to help coaches use data to make the best decisions possible for recruiting purposes. Robert can completely change the way coaches recruit players looking forward in the future.

Robert comes from a very strong background including being a Driveline Baseball Ops Analyst and Director of Analytics & Information Systems for Quincy University. Robert explains that both roles were very different in a sense but allowed him to think outside the box. He completely changes the way how a college analytics department should look like at a four year college.

Robert has a high level of understanding through R and Python while thinking outside the box on the player development side. Please join me in listening to Robert and his wide progressive knowledge about baseball!

Season 4 Episode 25 is out with Casey Demko. Casey is currently an assistant coach at Abilene Christian University located in Abilene, TX. Before, ACU Casey played college baseball at many levels including (Ohio State, Sinclair CC, and Coker University). This has allowed Casey to have a very eye-opening college experience showing that there is talent at every level of baseball.

Casey started his college coaching career at Quincy University a Division 2 baseball program in Quincy, IL. Casey goes in-depth talking about how he used technology at Quincy to help develop infielders. Technology become a huge staple in his development process by analyzing every type of ground ball hit while also tracking throws through an application created through R.

Casey is a progressive coach while understanding that development is a process, and you need a plan for every player. Please join me in listening to Casey.

Season 4 Episode 24 is out with TJ Wharton. TJ is currently the Director of performance and recruiting coordinator at Maryville College located in Maryville, TN. TJ has a long list of previous experiences including working for the New York Yankees ats a Bullpen Catcher/Performance Science Assistant during spring training. TJ also has experience working for Eckerd College, IMG, St. Petersburg College, and Catawba College.TJ goes indepth talking about his current positions at Maryville and talks about how much having a CSCS has helped him at the Division 3 level.

TJ has a ton of experience working worth difference organizations and colleges while having a knowledge in Exercise Science and Kinesiology. TJ is the definition of a Holistic approach towards the game of baseball. Please join me in listening to TJ.

Season 4 Episode 22 is out with Jackson Thorne. Jackson is very vocal about his pitching development and recent rehab with TJ.

Jackson and I go in depth talking about his past experiences with TJ. The overall process from surgery to their first experience back on the mound. TJ is a crazy experience and can change pitchers for the better because they can completely start over.

Season 4 Episode 21 is out with Landon Steiner. Landon is currently an assistant coach at Transylvania University located in Lexington, Ky. Landon has had success right away at Transylvania University winning the HCAC Championship his second year of coaching. Landon finished his college career at Winston-Salem State University.