Raising Arizona V. 2019

Beautiful. Hope Springs eternal! Before I officially pivot to video, lemme just say, in the words of an opposing scout, “The Rangers have gone from zero-to-sixty with regards to technology.” He wasn’t lyin’. You’ve heard all the reports this Spring and it ain’t a joke: there’s gadgets everywhere. There’s cameras and tri-pod mounted tablets behind the pitchers’ warmup mounds. There’s Trackman radars mounted high up on the backstops. There’s digital doohickeys on the ends of the hitters’ bats and there’s fancy data-delivering sleeves on the pitchers’ arms. There’s a wall with “X”s painted on it as targets for weighted balls. The data is so thick out here it’s turned into haze. And I think it’s gonna work. There’s too much data to fail. It’s gonna be a process- weeding out the data and devices that are helpful, then transferring the info to the coaches and eventually to the players. It ain’t gonna be easy, but the Rangers have assembled what feels like a small army to accomplish the task, and they’re off and running towards the goal.

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