February 16, 2019

Orioles Into the Future

Roch Kubatko takes note the new technology the Orioles implemented to analyze their pitchers:


The pitchers seem in favor of the use of Edgertronic cameras. Anything to increase their chances of success.


“We’re going through our individual meetings right now,” said manager Brandon Hyde. “We’ve gotten the majority of the pitchers and they’re all really interested in what their readers are and some presentations that we have for them. They’re ready to dive into it and we’ve had a great response from the interest level from them.


“The new analytics stuff the guys from Houston have brought here, we’ve gotten a great response from it.”

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Kubatko speaks with pitcher Dylan Bundy about the data, and asks him how things have changed since 2012:


Would there have been more resistance to this data and the attempts to implement it back when Bundy came up in 2012?


“It’s hard to say,” he replied. “There were some technologies back then that people didn’t take too well, but you can see the success all around the game with it, so I think that’s why everybody’s changed their mind and are really trying to open up to all that info.”

With the super slow motion cameras, the pitchers can actually see how the ball comes out of their hands. We’ll see if this leads to better release points.

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