The CEO of Diamond Kinetics, a leading bat-sensor company, said his company will release its first product that tracks the throwing motion in early 2018. While appearing on the SportTechie podcast this week, Diamond Kinetics’ co-founder and top executive, CJ Handron, told Bram Weinstein that its next offering would focus on improving arm action rather […]
As a high school and college baseball player who had read Ted Williams’ “The Science of Hitting,” Mike Donfrancesco understood the need to elevate the ball. “I had a little bit of pop,” said Donfrancesco, who played at Boston University in the early 1990s, “and I was always trying to hit the ball 20 degrees, […]
As the NBA and National Basketball Players Association work to find common ground related to whether players can use wearables during games and what the league can do with the data collected from them, an NBA tech executive is envisioning how those devices might be used further into the future. The long-term goal is to […]
After outfitting its technology for a professional soccer team in Germany, PlaySight is expanding its suite of autonomous scouting and coaching tools across the soccer industry. At the Soccerex Global Convention last month, PlaySight co-founder and CEO Chen Shachar pitched the company’s newest cloud-based video technology, SmartField, to European football clubs as a way to […]
San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey is himself the subject of some good trivia: His real name is Gerald Dempsey Posey III; he once played all nine positions in the same game while at Florida State; and he is one of only three catchers, along with Yankees great Thurman Munson and Reds Hall of Famer […]
