St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Mar 23, 2020
Baseball's future is now. Welcome to virtual spring training
Frank Castiglione, Rapsodo's director of marketing, points out the exit velocity on swing by a colleague during a demonstration Thursday at the company's North American headquarters in St. Louis. As of last week, 29 teams in Major League Baseball used the technology, and all 30 had it. (Derrick Goold photo)It would be another few hours before the clubhouse closed, a few days before he closed up his spring rental, and another week before Florida closed all gyms. Still, as a few teammates got in their final throws before vamoosing home, Cardinals pitcher Daniel Ponce de Leon stopped to consider how to maintain himself for the opportunities he forced open.