Baseball has managed to keep technology out of its sanctum sactorum - the dugout. Unlike cricket, where the manager has access to computers and video real-time for predictive analysis, all that is allowed into the dug-out are printouts. These printouts may cover everything from ball-play strategies, mannerism analysis to hitter profiles (including hot zones, chase zones and power zones). Baseball it seems is still played as it used to be 50 years ago, or is it? Read on.
Umpires benefit from technology during the post-game briefing. The Ques Tec system uses 2 cameras sitting atop the stadium and 2 cameras at field level to analyse each pitch. The umpires can compare their calls at the end of the day with the calls made by the Ques Tec system.
Improving hand-eye co-ordination and identifying injury-inviting motions during ball-play is another area that is being tackled using technology. Pitchers benefit from technical analysis related to leg drive motion, hip rotation, shoulder and trunk rotation to arm motion.
Batters also benefit from technical innovations such as the Abner Batter training system (name after Abner Doubleday - the purported inventor of the game of baseball). This system is used to fire regulation baseballs at upto 90 mph. A screen in front of the machine shows a 3D animated image of a pitcher including grip on the ball, delivery and follow-through to provide a true and fair impression of reality.
Scouts have also been enjoying the largesse that technology has to offer, in terms of automation to capture pitch and hit profiles of potential big league players that they are tracking. They use a small stylus and digital screen based system to create motion traces of action as it happens.
Imagine, adding all of this to the list of gizmos already present in cricket. Brain-freeze!!!
Find out more about innovations in baseball at:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/1283276.html
Umpires benefit from technology during the post-game briefing. The Ques Tec system uses 2 cameras sitting atop the stadium and 2 cameras at field level to analyse each pitch. The umpires can compare their calls at the end of the day with the calls made by the Ques Tec system.
Improving hand-eye co-ordination and identifying injury-inviting motions during ball-play is another area that is being tackled using technology. Pitchers benefit from technical analysis related to leg drive motion, hip rotation, shoulder and trunk rotation to arm motion.
Batters also benefit from technical innovations such as the Abner Batter training system (name after Abner Doubleday - the purported inventor of the game of baseball). This system is used to fire regulation baseballs at upto 90 mph. A screen in front of the machine shows a 3D animated image of a pitcher including grip on the ball, delivery and follow-through to provide a true and fair impression of reality.
Scouts have also been enjoying the largesse that technology has to offer, in terms of automation to capture pitch and hit profiles of potential big league players that they are tracking. They use a small stylus and digital screen based system to create motion traces of action as it happens.
Imagine, adding all of this to the list of gizmos already present in cricket. Brain-freeze!!!
Find out more about innovations in baseball at:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/1283276.html
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