ANAHEIM — Injuries devastated the A’s this year. They set an Oakland record by using the disabled list 27 times and by losing 1,762 days of player availability.
So it makes sense that the team would partner with a local sports-science-technology company that specializes in injury prevention. On Thursday, Kitman Labs of Menlo Park will announce that the A’s are using the company’s biomechanical and markerless motion-capture analytics system to help assess risk and provide advanced data to improve health and performance.
The A’s executive vice president of baseball operations, Billy Beane, joined Kitman Labs’ advisory board last season.