Well, sort of. Driveline Mechanics will soon be a partner in the SB Nation Network, host of team blogs such as Athletics Nation and DRays Bay in addition to some great independent baseball blogs like Minor League Ball and Beyond the Box Score.

What does this mean for you? Well, for starters, to comment you'll now need to register an account at SB Nation - but don't worry, it's really easy. Driveline Mechanics will also see an increase in traffic through the other partners in the SB Nation network, and the backend of the software should be easier to maintain and work with. You'll also get the option of Fanposts, where you get to post to a separate page with your thoughts about all things baseball. It's like a user's blog within the blog - and valued contributors to Fanposts may see their work promoted to the main page, or possibly brought on to the staff as a part-time writer!

The one problem in moving over to the SB Nation Network is that they don't have a migration tool to move our WordPress articles over to the new content site. However, copying and pasting the finished product works rather well using through rich text editor, so manually migrating articles won't be a problem. I plan on copying over the more interesting articles on a periodic basis so new users can see them and so I can revisit my analysis, but if there's something you specifically want to see (or can't live without), please comment to this post and let us know so we can mark it for migration.

To all the users who comment on posts and read the site on a regular basis: Thanks - we couldn't have done it without you. Traffic stats and the number of comments left on the site helped convinced Tyler Bleszinski (President of SB Nation) to add our site to his network, so you played a big role in this.

I can't believe that we've only been up for two months or so and we're seeing such major changes - three new writers hired on, moving to a new network, and lots of interest from the readers about pitching mechanics in general. Though I knew there was a big hole in the Internet when Carlos Gomez stopped writing over at The Hardball Times, I guess I drastically underestimated the baseball fanatics out there who cared about this niche.

In my opinion, I see the video analysis of pitching/hitting mechanics from a scientific and performance point of view as the next Moneyball frontier where "nerds" like myself are looked down upon by front office types and scouts because we never played the game at a high enough level to understand. However, just like it's impossible to tell the difference between a .360 OBP and .375 OBP hitter with the naked eye (even if you watched all 162 games), it is impossible to tell what the pitcher's arm is doing without slow-motion (and ideally high-speed) video from various angles. The human eye can only see at 30 frames per second, while capturing the relevant data from a pitcher's delivery takes several hundred frames per second for the most accurate analysis. Hopefully with time and the dissemination of information by sites like Saber-Scouting, Driveline Mechanics, and The Hardball Times (even though we all disagree on some things), front offices and scouts will start to accept the fact that Rick Peterson was right about at least this one thing:

"In God we trust; all others must have data."