
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
Matt Hobbs on recruiting, assessments, and a deep dive into pitching development
Go to WhatAboutBaseball.com/curve to get your special offer. Thats 20% off AND free shipping. Bio Matt Hobbs is in his third season as the Arkansas pitching coach in 2020, joining the Razorbacks in November 2018. Matt helped craft the Razorback pitching staff into one of the top groups in the country in his first year on the Hill in 2019. and In a shortened season, the Hogs put together a 3.68 ERA and an 11-5 record with three saves and one shutout. Arkansas racked up 143 strikeouts in 142.0 innings Hobbs has coached eight players that have been drafted in the top-10 rounds, including 2018 first-round pick Griffin Roberts, and has helped develop a total of seven big leaguers. Before Arkansas, Hobbs was the Pitching coach at Wake Forest and in each of his first three years in Winston-Salem, the Demon Deacons improved in ERA, strikeouts , walks per nine and opponent batting average Hobbs pitched at Missouri from 1999-2002, where he won 13 games and struck out 125 batters. Hobbs was drafted twice, first by the San Diego Padres in 2001 and then by the Kansas City Royals in 2002. On the show we talk all things pitching development, including who they like to recruit, what pitching assessments they use, and how they use tech for offseason development and measuring in season progress. Time Stamps 5:00- Things he has changed from 2020 14:00- How has player development changed? 21:30- Recruiting talk 27- Assessments 30:30- Readiness Scores 36:00- Recovery 42:00- In season development 58:00- Using tech for development 1:07:00- Last Things Contact Twitter mh099@uark.edu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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