Those who dream of swinging for the fences and knocking the ball out of the park now have that opportunity in the official Home Run Derby VR game presented by Major League Baseball and MLBPA. The game gives you a 360-degree view from the batter’s box of some on the MLB’s most iconic ballparks like Wrigley […]
If you happened to be watching yesterday’s Home Run Derby, you might have noticed something different about the broadcast among Giancarlo Stanton’s mammoth home runs. With Intel running all of the behind-the-scenes work, the technology company embarked on its second run of using their 360-degree replay technology. The three biggest events of this All-Star Week—the All-Star […]
Few sports have embraced technology in the way that baseball, America’s unwavering pastime, has somewhat surprisingly done. From special tape on bats to a “smart” baseball that stores massive amounts of data, to allowing wearables to be worn by players during games, the presence of tech in baseball is easily felt on a daily basis. As […]
In its debut season, Statcast has changed the way that players and fans look at the game. It has been well documented that professional sporting teams of all types are beginning to move into tracking and stat-driven decision-making, but for MLB, during the 2015 season the fans were able to look at the game on […]
Baseball has long been a sport that relies heavily upon statistics. Now there is a new series of offensive and defensive metrics that the MLB has introduced using their Statcast tracking technology. Statcast, which uses a combination of radar and camera technology, is able to ascertain a number of statistics that have not been readily […]