Show No. 18 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a guest expert interview, our weekly player news update, and HQ commentary... First, PD talks with Jerren Bright, an engineer at the University of Waterloo Vision and Image Processing Lab, where a team is working on PitcherNet, a system to allow pitcher motion data to be captured from a TV image or a smartphone video.
In Part 1 (3:20), Jerren and PD discuss how the PitcherNet project got started and how the technology works... Then, Ray Murphy has our weekly player news review... In the AL News (20:10), Ray looks hitters including Julio Rodriguez and Shane Smith... And in NL News (43:10), Ray looks at Pete Crow-Armstrong and Hayden Birdsong... In Part 2 of our expert interview (1:14:35), PD and Jerren Bright discuss the future potential of PitcherNet, both inside baseball and outside...
Then we have our BaseballHQ commentaries... in the Frequent Flyer (1:28:05), BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey looks at CLE 1B/OF C.J. Kayfus... and in his Extra Innings comment (1:31:30), BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt discusses what do about Jeff Hoffman... Runs 1:42:05