Scouts hope that new AI technology will help them uncover baseball superstars but players are worried about how AI may create new biases.
to use AI to analyze players and ascertain their likelihood of finding success in the professional baseball ranks.
AI enters the equation by translating the images captured by the iPhone cameras and converting the movement into metrics. Uplift Labs believes that AI can detect player’s flaws and perhaps even identify players with a higher likelihood of injury. “Biomechanics and the analysis associated with it is something that we know is a pretty significant piece of where the game is headed,” adds Bill Francis, MLB’s senior director of baseball operations. “Traditionally, it has been very hard to do at scale because of the expensive hardware.”
The Uplift Labs setup was available at the MLB draft combine in Arizona, with prospects able to opt out of the process if they wanted. Asreports, some agents believe that submitting to biomechanical data analysis could help some players while hurting others.
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