MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming

Are we entering the F1 stage of baseball and other sports? I bet there’s room for optimization with gloves and shoes and uniforms. I’m surprised teams haven’t made use of mobile recovery units when visiting away teams (instead of hotels). And there’s still gotta be ways to work around fatigue related to travel and time zone changes. I’m still surprised how basic and limited home team locker rooms can be. There are probably cool tech and social/psych solutions.

They’ve been Moneyballing the game for a while with analytics to the point that the MLB had to ban certain defensive techniques. (Analytics says he always hits it there, so put a bunch of defensive players there.)

> I bet there’s room for optimization with gloves

Maybe so, but the demand is just not there with so many play ending up as home runs or strikeouts.

Definitely already begun.

Players diets, sleep schedules, low altitude flights…