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Pitch recognition program helped change SEMO baseball

COLUMBIA, MO. • In Saturday’s paper we told you about some of the innovative technologies new Missouri baseball coach Steve Bieser used at Southeast Missouri State, including a pitch recognition program inspired by the work of SIU-Carbondale professor Dr. Peter Fadde.

Eventually, they became a team — Fadde, Bieser and SEMO hitting coach Dillon Lawson.

“We had two goals,” Fadde said last week. “We wanted to stay true to the scientific principles, and that’s the occlusion method. The other part was we really needed it to fit with what they do with the players — not some new exotic thing.