The performance institute Driveline Baseball has acquired the sports sensor technology division of Motus Global. Driveline will leverage its acquisition of Motus sensors to continue its research into throwing performance and injury prevention.
Pitchers in Driveline’s baseball training program have been known to wear Motus compression sleeves on their throwing arms. The sleeves are embedded with Motus sensors that can track torque on a user’s arm after every throw. Metrics are uploaded to the MotusDASH platform, which is used to monitor stress on a player’s throwing arm. Cincinnati Reds ace Trevor Bauer and New York Yankees reliever Adam Ottavino are among the hundreds of MLB pitchers who have trained at Driveline’s facility near Seattle.
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“We are excited to be the next home for Motus’ market-leading sensor technology. I believe that combined we have the potential to truly alter the way the game is played: lowering the overall cost for high-quality throwing programming and creating a more accurate system for monitoring health and performance of pitchers,” Driveline Baseball CEO Mike Rathwell said in a press release.
SportTechie’s Joe Lemire visited Motus Global’s biomechanics lab in Long Island, N.Y., for an inside look on how pitchers trained inside the facility. Yankees starting pitcher James Paxton has raved about the value Motus that sensors bring to his training regimen. “Part of my problem in the past, I think, was that I went too hard between games, not allowing myself that time to recover,” Paxton told SportTechie in 2018. “This just puts a number to that and shows me that I am taking it down a notch in between games to save myself for every fifth or sixth day when I’m actually pitching.”
