With every passing season, technology continues to infuse Major League Baseball and, if anything, that process accelerated over the off-season. As the dust settles after Opening Day, SportTechie presents a roundup of the key MLB tech storylines to watch in 2019.
Player Performance Monitoring
Technology is becoming a central part of player development and performance evaluation in modern baseball. The post-Moneyball era introduced innovative statistical methods to analyze and interpret existing stats for additional meaning, but technology is providing new avenues to assess and develop both general talent and specific skills.
Every club uses some combination of the leading baseball tech products: Rapsodo hitting and pitching monitors, Edgertronic high-speed cameras, Blast Motion and Diamond Kinetics bat sensors, K-Motion biomechanical vests, HitTrax tracker, KinaTrax motion capture, and more.