Nearly a century after the 1919 World Series was marred by a match-fixing scandal and three decades after the all-time hit leader received a permanent ban for wagering money on...
ESPN’s Home Run Derby coverage on Monday night will feature new 3D home run spray charts and an analyst-controlled immersive replay for better dissection of hitters’ swings. The 3D spray...
Major League Baseball concluded that reduced aerodynamic drag of the baseballs has contributed to a league-wide spike in home runs since the second half of the 2015 season. In other words, the physical properties of the balls themselves appear to have changed, reducing air resistance and allowing a ball to “carry” farther. A team of 10 academics […]
In early April, SportTechie had the chance to take a walk around Nationals Park with ESPN coordinating producer Phil Orlins before a Sunday Night Baseball contest between the Nationals and the Mets. At the time, Orlins told ST how the network captured arguably the best moment from Spring Training: When a mic’d up Mookie Betts […]
SportsMEDIA Technology Corp. (SMT), a technology company whose predecessor was hired to help build Major League Baseball’s PITCHf/x system, has sued the league’s media rights arm, MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM), for patent infringement, trade secret theft and breach of contract. The 92-page complaint describes a relationship that began more than a decade ago to create […]
