iPods Becoming Entrenched In Major League Baseball

DreadfulGrape writes "ESPN.com reports on how video iPods are being used increasingly by baseball players to study opponents' game footage. In fact, Houston Astros' pitcher Jason Jennings credits the device with improving his game last summer." Jennings says, "Eventually, more than two-thirds of the roster had piled on and turned this team into baseball's official iSquad. Every player gets his own custom set of videos loaded onto his personal iPod, sorted by date, hitter, pitcher and opponent — and updated every week or so."

Comments

That's great!

[lord_mike]

Now, if Apple would only let us program these things, perhaps we could figure out other cool ways to use them...

I know, I know... forget about it... Jobs will never, ever let you use HIS hardware in any fashion that HE didn't think up first...

Man, talk about losing the vision that originally made you successful...

Thanks,

Mike

Re:That's great!

[sasdrtx]

Do you know what OTS and COTS mean?

Clue: It's not just the new cool way to say "software".

Re:9 - 13 is a turn around?

[pin_gween]

win/loss record is a terrible way to judge a pitcher's performance

Perhaps, but you won't see any pitchers in the Hall with a 41% win ratio. In fact, only one pitcher (unless the site I looked at is incomplete), Rollie Fingers, is below 50%.

And I REALLY don't think Rollie made it for his 37 or so starts.