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.
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Ron Polk- Former Head Coach at Mississippi State & Georgia, Current Volunteer Assistant at UAB
Jerry Weinstein- Player Development Staff, Colorado Rockies
Bart Hanegraaff- Motor Learning and Skill Acquisition Expert, Hitting Coach for Dutch Baseball and Softball
Ryan Parker- Hitting Coach
Jarret DeHart- MiLB Hitting Coach, Seattle Mariners
Rick Strickland- Owner of Rick Strickland Baseball, St. Louis Cardinals Hitting Consultant
Dillon Lawson- MiLB Hitting Coach, Houston Astros
Matt Lawson- Hitting Coach and Recruiting Coordinator, Missouri State University
Derek Florko AKA Sabercoach- Axe Bat Manager of Hitting and Assistant Coach for the Abbotsford Cardinals and Yale Baseball Academy
Pete Savage- Head Baseball Coach, Reno HS (NV)
DJ Edwards- Owner/Director of Performance at Push Performance (CO)
Ryan Starwalt- Head Baseball Coach, Crescent Valley HS (OR)
Hitting Round Table with Doug Latta, Curt Nelson, and Cody Atkinson
John Gelnar- Former MLB Pitcher, Pittsburgh Pirates, Seattle Pilots, Milwaukee Brewers
Keanon Simon- Head Baseball Coach, Mustang HS (OK)
Justin James- Head Baseball Coach, Point Loma Nazarene University (CA)
Josh Garcia- Head Baseball Coach, Brophy College Prep HS (AZ)
47: JL Buchanan- Hitting Coach, Taft College (CA)
Darrell Coulter- Mindset & Pitch Command Consultant, Creator of STARTT Pitching (MO)
45: Rob Cooper- Head Baseball Coach, Penn State University
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