Daily News | Can AI pitching technology help Bryce Harper return to the Phillies even sooner?
Bryce Harper stood on the grass in foul territory, 60 feet up the first base line from his target, and stepped into his first throw since last summer.It’s all happening so fast. Harper knows this. Research shows that six months is the soonest a non-pitcher has returned from an elbow ligament reconstruction to play in the majors . Yet here’s Harper, who began taking batting practice 4½ months after his Nov. 23 surgery.
No joke. The Phillies are among a dozen teams this season that are using the Trajekt Arc, a next-gen pitching machine and video projection system that is programmable to replicate the pitch mix and delivery of every major league pitcher more accurately than any known baseball training tool. “It’s pretty accurate, actually,” Stott said. “The Sandy video, he was throwing his sinker. It spun how his sinker spins. The video’s clear, and it’s pretty much on time. It was really good.”“I don’t see why not,” Stott said.Joshua Pope’s coming of age as a baseball fan coincided with the dawning of the Statcast era.
Pope attended the University of Waterloo — “Kind of our version of MIT in Canada,” he said — in the fall of 2014 and studied biomedical engineering. He brought up the robotic pitcher concept to a professor. It didn’t go over well. How would he generate the gyro spin of the ball? How would he recreate what the professor called the “12 degrees of freedom” of human movement in throwing a pitch? There were too many questions.
The Cubs were the earliest adopter of the machine in 2021. By the middle of last season, seven teams had signed multiyear deals to lease the Arc for a five-figure monthly fee and what Pope described as a “low six-figure value per year.” Meanwhile, Trajekt Sports, based in Toronto, has grown to 10 employees, including Pope and Ferrabee.
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