SportTechie’s Athletes Voice series features the views and opinions of the athletes who use and are powered by technology. SportTechie spoke with Yankees reliever Adam Ottavino about his tech-infused, home-brew...
Rob Friedman, the software executive who moonlights on Twitter as @PitchingNinja, announced plans on Wednesday to start a new account, website, and app to feature and educate younger pitchers. The...
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Sharing space with a physical therapy center is an open-plan fitness center as big as an airplane hangar and brimming with activity. While a rehabbing NFL player did deadlifts in the center of the facility, off to the corner stood a former minor league pitcher toeing the rubber of a high-density […]
Pitcher injuries remain the highest priority concern persisting in baseball. A quarter of all big league pitchers have undergone Tommy John surgery, and elbow and shoulder injuries accounted for 54 percent of all days on the disabled list from 1998 through 2015, according to a recent study. Poor mechanics and excessive workload are generally blamed, […]
Baseball Factory, a company that specializes in the player development and college guidance of high school baseball players, has partnered with Motus Global on biomechanics for injury prevention and performance analysis. Baseball Factory will use the motusTHROW device to capture player data for use in injury prevention and training. The data will impact how players […]
