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.      TimeStamps:    

• Intro (1:20)
• How to keep a podcast going (2:40)
• Before Driveline (7:00)
• Getting hired at Driveline (8:20)
• Overall roles at Driveline currently (13:15)
• Peer Reviewed Articles (15:40)
• Driveline current business process (20:00)
• Purchasing Motus and creating Pulse (22:00)
• Driveline Metric Projections 2023 within Pitching, Hitting, Overall Biomechanics, and High Performance (30:00)
• What are organizations looking for within Hitting in 2023 (37:00)
• Open Source Biomechanics data (41:00)
• What is like starting a podcast (43:45)
• Interacting with fans (49:30)
• Overall hiring of Driveline employees into pro organizations during 2022-2023 off season (51:00)
• What should Alex’s workout be for the day? (59:40)
• Closing (65:30)