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by Jordie Henry, with clutch help from Ilan Joffe Introduction If you are anyone in baseball, you know that much has been observed about ball flight tracking over the last several years in the baseball world. The rise of technology like TrackMan, Hawkeye, and Rapsodo has changed the way pitchers develop for the foreseeable future. Such aspects of tracking ball flight include in-season and live game pitch analysis, training and development-centered pitch design processes, and areas where those concepts might overlap as an athlete monitors their personal progress over time.  The types of questions, analyses, and conclusions that can be drawn from this tech are seemingly endless. For specific examples of how these tools can be utilized, check out previous articles from the blog here , here , and here . In this post, we will look at yet another and possibly stupid example of how this tech and its data can be used. *For sake of specificity and to avoid going off on tangents, the rest of th

Introduction For those familiar with the integration of technology in today's game, you have probably heard of the term "pitch design" before. Pitch design has become somewhat of a blanket term used to describe the pitch development processes that range from tweaking an existing pitch in an effort to increase its effectiveness to the introduction of an entirely new pitch to a pitcher's arsenal.  There has been some controversy on the semantics of the term that has centered around the idea of whether a completely "new pitch" can actually be created. This is not the idea that the term is supposed to evoke. To some degree, any type of manipulation that a pitcher imparts on a pitch creates a movement profile that has likely been thrown by someone, somewhere, at some point in time at least once, if not millions of times, before. But to "design" a pitch in the sense that most of us use "pitch design," it is simply the process of attempti