The Quest for the Perfect Pitching Machine [The Ringer]

[43211234]

https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2021/3/18/22337384/perfect-pitching-machine-trajekt-winmill-jeff-kensrud

 

 

I'll let you click instead of posting it here.

 

An interesting article about what technologies and approaches hitters are using to strike back in the world of pitch design and times-through-order penalties.

 

Teams are also moving away from batting practice just being an uninstructive time to crush meatballs. When the Blue Jays signed Zach Stewart in 2019 it was apparently just to throw BP.

 

Here's a video from the article about a Toronto companies' pitching robot: https://vimeo.com/454792845

[Brownie19]

I'm not surprised by this at all - but it's still pretty f***ing awesome.

 

One thing everyone hates about pitching machines is the timing - you can't tell when that ball is coming. I've seen some machines that have a screen & projector up in front of it, so you can 'see' a pitcher winding up and then at the release point, there's a hole in the screen the ball comes out of. I wonder if they'll add that to this pitching robot...

 

Super cool - thanks for posting.

[philly30]

https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2021/3/18/22337384/perfect-pitching-machine-trajekt-winmill-jeff-kensrud

 

 

I'll let you click instead of posting it here.

 

An interesting article about what technologies and approaches hitters are using to strike back in the world of pitch design and times-through-order penalties.

 

Teams are also moving away from batting practice just being an uninstructive time to crush meatballs. When the Blue Jays signed Zach Stewart in 2019 it was apparently just to throw BP.

 

Here's a video from the article about a Toronto companies' pitching robot: https://vimeo.com/454792845

 

Maybe I missed something in that video but it seems like it takes forever in between pitches

[RustyTrombone]

So im guessing thats what makes the knuckleball move like that. Seam shifted wake. Very interesting stuff