Nolan Gorman’s offseason work is already giving Cardinals fans something to watch.
A new training video from Driveline Baseball shows the St. Louis infielder in the cage, taking swings in a session built around tightening up his mechanics and finding more consistency at the plate.
The footage catches Gorman working indoors with HitTrax tracking the results, and several of the exit velocities in the clip climb above 90 mph. Coaches are feeding him feedback in real time, while the drills are aimed at helping him make adjustments and square the ball up more often.
Driveline hitting coordinator Jacob Hirsh is leading the session shown in the video, using drills and constraints to help Gorman sharpen his swing. The clip doesn’t promise anything on its own, but it does offer a look at the kind of work Gorman is putting in after a rough 2026 season.
That season was a struggle from the start. Gorman hit .184 with nine home runs in 85 major league games, and the Cardinals sent him to Triple-A Memphis in June. He stayed there for nearly 11 weeks before making it back to the big-league roster in August.
The numbers in Memphis weren’t much better. Gorman hit .182 with 13 home runs in 46 games, and while the power was still there, the contact issues that have dogged him kept showing up.
Still, the upside hasn’t disappeared. The 26-year-old blasted 27 home runs in 2023, his second major league season, and that kind of production is why there’s still belief he can become a productive power hitter if the bat starts working the way it did then.
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