Major League Baseball and Amazon Web Services announced an extended partnership earlier this week to leverage Amazon’s cloud-based machine learning technology to enrich the statistical data presented in baseball broadcasts....
As Major League Baseball kicks off its new season, SportTechie is offering its preview of the top technology storylines for the next seven months, from first pitch on Opening Day to last out of the World Series, with an assist to MLB executive vice president for strategy, technology and innovation, Chris Marinak, who appeared on the […]
Pedro Martinez was never ejected from a major league game for arguing balls and strikes, but the Boston Red Sox’s Hall of Fame pitcher admits he should have been once. In a start against the New York Yankees at Fenway Park on July 25, 2003, Martinez began his tirade by wagging his finger at home […]
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 […]
Major League Baseball’s revolutionary Statcast technology has earned a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for its collection and broadcast of advanced tracking statistics. The Emmy will be jointly presented to all three members of the Statcast triumvirate: TrackMan, which provides its Doppler radars; ChyronHego, which offers both an optical-tracking system (called TRACAB) and broadcast visualization tools; […]
