![]() ![]() It is my (Steve) belief that pitch design concepts will become normalized in college baseball within the new few years, if not sooner, and it is our job at BDG to prepare our players for that.īuild better pitches, duh! We are trying to quantify your pitches first and foremost and then make adjustments whether that be to your pitches or how you use them. We don’t expect athletes to fully understand everything in here but we believe that it’s important for them to be exposed to it. In this document, we are going to discuss the basics of pitch characteristics, the functionality of the Rapsodo, and some other key concepts related to designing pitches. We can confidently say that in using the Rapsodo appropriately and effectively, we are living in a time of unchartered waters as it relates to developing a better pitching repertoire. We were one of the lucky few early adopters and now carry some experience with it that we can employ with our athletes. Fortunately, we’re ( slightly) ahead of the times at BDG, having now used the Rapsodo unit for just over a year. The game is changing at the highest level, towards a more objective and analytical approach to measuring a pitchers stuff, and the effects will sprinkle down to the rest of baseball. Mike Petriello wrote a great article on the explosion of the Rapsodo (and other tech devices) in a recent post on MLB.com that you can find here. This year, that number has exploded to include every single one of them. Last year, there were just a small handful of MLB organizations using these units in Spring Training. Rapsodo is another great example of the adoption of technology in baseball. Essentially, we can look at your fastball’s characteristics and rate it relative to what would constitute as good, poor, or otherwise. To keep things simple, it’s a camera that can quantify spin, infer movement, and speed of a pitch, effectively allowing us to objectively measure how good our stuff is. Rapsodo is one of the most important tools in terms of feedback for players and coaches regarding the movement profile of a pitch, whether that be a fastball, curveball, or anything else. By now, I’m sure some of you have heard of Rapsodo and what it does. ![]()
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