This offseason, free agent relief pitcher Craig Breslow paired his analytical nature with some-cutting edge technology to try and breathe new life into his fading major league career.
Rapsodo Baseball is a portable high-speed camera system that uses radar data to quantify the trajectory of a baseball as it leaves a pitcher’s hand. Beyond ball flight, the system tracks the spin rate, spin efficiency, spin axis and velocity of a pitch.
Breslow was an 11-year MLB veteran of seven different organizations who sought out Rapsodo to kick start his effectiveness. The 36-year-old logged bullpen sessions in the offseason with his iPad at the ready, according to the Pioneer Press.