Edgertronic Cameras Are the Tech Transforming Baseball By Accident

An Edgertronic camera in use at Driveline Baseball. (Marques Gagner)Cleveland Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer first ordered an Edgertronic high-speed camera in August 2015, and he carried the small blue box device with him that winter to his offseason training facility, Driveline Baseball. His father, Warren, came along and was setting up the camera behind home plate for his son’s bullpen session when he started chatting to Driveline’s founder, Kyle Boddy.

“You know, if I show you the Edgertronic footage, you’re going to immediately buy one,” Warren Bauer told Boddy.

Edgertronics were cheap by high-speed camera standards but still cost more than $5,000 apiece, so Boddy demurred. Then, the camera…