Major League Baseball has approved the in-game use of bat sensors throughout its minor leagues for the 2018 season.
In 2017, MLB conducted a pilot program that permitted bat sensors to be attached during rookie ball games in the Gulf Coast League and the Arizona Summer League. That has now been expanded for sensors to be attached to all minor league game bats and also to be embedded inside of bats for rookie ball.
“When you just use the sensor technology in batting practice, often you’ll find differences in the insights that teams and coaches and players can get due to the fact that you have the pressure of a real game situation,” Blast Motion CEO Michael Fitzpatrick said.