One of the many routines that baseball players follow before a game is to wander into the video room at a stadium. There, hitters can watch video of their recent at-bats, and pitchers can get a look at the tendencies of coming opponents.
But a growing number of players are spending less time slumped in front of a desktop computer and instead are preparing at their lockers, in their hotel rooms or on team planes, and nearly anywhere else by using their iPads and software created by Bloomberg Sports.
About 150 major league players and coaches, like Travis Hafner, Jose Molina and C. J. Wilson, pay $700 a season for a subscription to Pitch Review, which tailors baseball’s statistical database and video of every pitch thrown to the needs of each player.
With the touch of a few buttons, hitters can watch recent outings by pitchers that they will soon face, or pitchers can review hitters’ at-bats. The video can be sorted by pitch type or result, hit type or result, ball-and-strike count, number of outs and runners on base. If players want, they can watch entire games in at-bat-size chunks, one after another.
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