The St. Louis Cardinals: Baseball meets Technology
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Key Points:
- The Cardinals are working to catch up in adopting advanced baseball performance technologies, using a variety of methods to research and understand these tools despite teams generally keeping such information secret.
- Key technologies include Force Plates that measure ground reaction forces during pitching, ArmCare sensors for release point strength, Trackman radar systems for pitch and hit data, and Trajekt pitching machines that simulate pitchers' throws using detailed data.
- Additional tools like Kinatrax motion capture, Edgertronics high-speed cameras, Hawkeye tracking, and wearable devices (e.g., compression sleeves, pressure plates, GPS trackers) are employed to monitor biomechanics, workload, and injury risk.
- The integration of these technologies aims not only to optimize player performance but also to monitor health, fatigue
