Major League Baseball is now beginning preliminary testing of technology to gauge whether there is a way to create more clarity on check swings. Using the same Hawk-Eye technology as the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge system already in place in the Arizona Fall League, the Check Swing Challenge...
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The first autobiography I ever read was I Had a Hammer, the memoir by the legendary Hank Aaron. In it, he talks about growing up too poor to have any baseball equipment, so he had to swing sticks at bottlecaps. The fact that he would go from these humble beginnings, through the segre...
“I had been rushing that night. And I got in the on-deck circle, and I was like,O.K., now I feel it.” The Mariners recently put their players through a bat-fitting process, similar to getting fitted for golf clubs. Players’ swings are analyzed through motion-capture cameras to as...
“I like the way he swings the bat, and he’s increasing his versatility, which is the point of camp for him,” Hinch said about Lipcius. “He’s doing what he’s always done.” Lipcius has primarily played third base in the minors, but has also seen some decent time at second ...
“labs” players tweak the angles of their pitches and swings with scientific precision. By chasing home runs, hitters accept more swings and misses. By chasing swings and misses, pitchers throw fewer fastballs (though the ones they do throw are harder) and take more time between pitches. ...
He swings big to generate that power and has the strikeout and swing-and-miss rates to show it. Those are the last dominoes to fall before Riley really makes a push for MVP and the time is right -- he's just hitting the prime of his career. Season prediction: Now at a lofty, ...
happening at once, meaning a hitter and a ball is flying at the same time, I would like to be able to sort of have golf-like virtual 3D images of the home run like you see on the flank of a golf screen at the...
playRays were Kurkjian's favorite team to cover the past decade (1:58)Tim Kurkjian explains why the Tampa Bay Rays were his favorite team to cover in the past 10 years and details the story of his favorite moment with an analyst. (1:58) ...
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