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This will include draft videos and articles promoted through the Baseball Factory web site. In 2015, Baseball Factory announced the formation of a strategic partnership with Pocket Radar, provider of innovative speed measurement technology designed for coaching and training. Pocket Radar's Ball Coach model is the Official Radar Gun of Baseball ...
Legendary Dodgers scout Mike Brito, who died Thursday at 87, turned scouting into performance art, standing behind home plate and charting pitches.
Mike Brito (August 21, 1934 – July 7, 2022) was a Cuban-American baseball scout. He was a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers for nearly 45 years. He signed Fernando Valenzuela. Brito was easily recognizable on Dodger home game telecasts by standing immediately behind home plate, wearing a white Panama hat and holding a radar gun. [1] [2] [3]
Radar guns, which were used for many years in professional baseball, did not exist when Dalkowski was playing, so the only evidence supporting this level of velocity is anecdotal. It is certain that with his high speed and penchant for throwing wild pitches , he would have been an intimidating opponent for any batter who faced him.
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For most of baseball's history, there were no commonplace methods to quantify how hard-hit a batted ball was — the only aspect of the ball's speed being tracked was how fast the pitcher threw it, measured using various evolutions of radar guns. In 2015, MLB introduced Statcast technology to all 30 of its ballparks, in part to track exit velocity.
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