Baseball’s Latest Recruit Is an iPad
Deal between Apple, Major League Baseball makes tablets, strategy apps available to coaches
New York Mets manager Terry Collins holds paper notes before a spring training baseball game against the Detroit Tigers earlier this month. Coaches will soon have iPads to keep track of player rosters and game data. PHOTO: JOHN RAOUX/ASSOCIATED PRESS
There will be a new player in Major League Baseball dugouts this season: the iPad. AppleInc. and MLB signed a multi-year agreement to equip every team with iPad Pro tablets to help coaching staffs make better use of data.
Teams will be able sift through performance stats from current and past seasons, weigh potential pitcher-hitter matchups, look at “spray charts” showing where a player is likely to hit a ball, even cue up videos of plays from previous games.
Baseball's newest recruit
isn't wearing a suit
with bold colors or stripes
and never curses or gripes.
Though such demeanor may sound boring
results could prove worth adoring
since Statistics will be the new name
of what was -- once -- "America's Game"
and they will now be on tap from a handsome Apple I Pad
carefully protected from any random dirt or tobacco wad.
.
However, it remains to be seen whether generations X,Y and Z
will like this or prefer staying cozily home with Virtual Reality.
HzL
3/30/16
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