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, […]

For the last several years, MLB and the sport of baseball in general has been hit with an epidemic — UCL injuries and Tommy John Surgery. While the success rates for the surgery are high, the surgery keeps pitchers (the majority of the patients) out of action for more than a year. The team at […]

It’s not fair. We all want to be in great shape, but when we play we pay – with injuries, especially as we get older. Don’t panic. The Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable technology are here to help. In this case though, your body is the “thing.” Wearable sensors can collect real-time data about […]

The MLB season is off and running as the Atlanta Braves, in particular, open technology-infused SunTrust Park for the first time Friday. SportTechie recently broke down the most important storylines to follow for the 2017 MLB season and with that, we also wanted to highlight some of the baseball technology companies to watch during the […]

John Jaso needs more wheatgrass. Pirates official chef Tony Palatucci has four trays going, but it’s not enough. “You need, like, a lot of wheatgrass to just get an ounce and a half shot,” Jaso said. “You need like a full tray, a one-foot-by-three-foot tray.” In the increasingly individualized realm of fitness, nutrition and general […]

Baseball players are wired up. Yankees reliever Dellin Betances wears a sleeve around his elbow to measure stress on a ligament. Chris Coghlan spent spring training with the Phillies using a wrist band to check his sleep and recovery. Others have GPS devices hidden under their uniforms. In 21st-century baseball, digital devices monitor heart rates, […]

Major League Baseball is taking strides to implement new wearable technology for their players. This technology will not only help players and coaches get statistical information on how their players are pitching and/or throwing, but it will also help with maintaining the prevention of injuries. Other professional organizations, such as the NBA, NFL, and NHL, […]

MLB teams go out of house to lock down as much data as they can When Brian Cartwright was a teenager, he spent his gap year biking around Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He would go road by road, verifying the lay of the land. Once he finished surveying the city’s six-plus square miles, he produced a street […]

Of all the major sports, baseball has been the one most closely tied to player performance data. Whether that has been PitchFx, Statcast, or other advanced metrics that are now fully adopted in the game, when it comes to statistics, baseball rules them all. So, it may come as no surprise that the use of […]

Youth and high school pitchers are hurting now more than ever. Now some companies are trying to bring the biomechanics technology used by the pros, like wearables and motion capture, to homes and schools. More than two million youth baseball players will take the field this spring in cities across America, from Ojai, California, to […]