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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Eric Peterson- Pitching Coach, Drury University (MO)
Breck Draper- Head Baseball Coach, Heritage Hall HS (OK)
Chris Dunn- MLB Hitting Consultant and author of ”The High Performance Hitter”
Rob Friedman AKA The Pitching Ninja- Pitching Coach, Paideia HS (GA)
Travis Hergert- Head Baseball Coach, North Iowa Area Community College
Dr. Dustin Lind- Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Specialist
Wes Brooks- Head Baseball Coach, Oxford HS (AL)
Tyler Gillum- Assistant Baseball Coach, South Mountain Community College
Flint Wallace- Director of Player Development, Texas Baseball Ranch
Ryan Faer- Arizona Performance Coordinator, Cleveland Indians
Butch Chaffin- Head Baseball Coach, Cookeville HS (TN)
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