MLB: Is Too Much Technology Possible?

Posted: 7th April 2010 by Cliff Eastham in MLB
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Technology is a good thing, right?

Can it become overdone? I mean, do we know when to say "enough"?

Case in point: Fox Sports pitch tracker "FoxTrax". It shows the overall speed of the pitch, the speed at a certain distance from the plate, measurement of descent, measurement of break, and the temperature of the ball (just kidding about the last one, but why not?)

That is more pitch delivery 411 than I am allowed to process in this limited gray matter inside my skull. You may be different, maybe that isn't even enough information for you.

What was the genesis of the technology coup? Was it lights illuminating the darkness for a night game? Or was it the electric scoreboard, keeping people from having to manually place numbers in their proper slots (apologies to ...

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