Baseball’s most innovative franchise, the Houston Astros, triumphed over a Los Angeles Dodgers roster assembled by a front office with several Ph.D.’s in what was undoubtedly the most data-driven World Series to date.
Their sensibilities were an appropriate capstone to a 2017 Major League Baseball season full of advancements. Here are SportTechie’s starting lineup of top storylines for the year that was:
1. Launch Angle
Major league teams slugged a record 6,105 home runs this season — smashing the previous mark by more than 400 — as the term “launch angle” permeated the dugout’s daily discourse.