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Mar 2025
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874: How AI is Transforming Baseball (wi...

Jon Krohn
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In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn talks baseball. For decades, coaches have relied on player performance stats to make in-game decisions and refine their season strategies. Now, AI led by Statcast is taking baseball strategy even further, massively broadening analytics data to include pitch, swing and catch trajectories, spin rates, biomechanical information, player matchups, and how to enhance player performances. Listen to the episode to find out what other industries can learn from the “data-friendly” sport of baseball.


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