Major League Baseball players will compete against one another in an official esports competition called the MLBPA Fortnite Challenge, beginning on Monday. The MLBPA partnered with esports event organizer UMG...
A new blockchain startup is advancing the notion of baseball cards to crypto collectibles. Player Tokens is offering MLBPA-licensed digital keepsakes of major league players. Each token has a player...
With so many unsigned free agents, the Major League Baseball Players Association organized a makeshift spring training and a pair of exhibition games against a Japanese baseball team, Japan Railway East, with Thursday’s contest live streamed for fans and scouts to watch. The players’ workouts have been held at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., […]
The Denver Broncos have been using Catapult’s wearable technology since 2014, but running back C.J. Anderson said he only gained access to his data this past fall — and had a career-high 1,007 rushing yards, saying, “I believe I had a better year on the football field because of the data that I have.” While […]
Major League Baseball and the Players Association publicly released on Friday the latest collective bargaining agreement, which includes provisions banning the use of data garnered by wearable technology for commercial use or for admission in salary arbitration. Baseball permitted two wearable devices for in-game use last year — the Motus elbow sleeve and Zephyr Bioharness — […]
