June 5, 2015 | Abbi Nicolella
PITTSBURGH – On May 23, Pedro Alvarez hit a 429-foot home run off Matt Harvey in the 2nd inning of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 8-2 win over the New York Mets. Alvarez, who earlier in the week versus the Minnesota Twins hit a home run into a boat docked alongside the…
June 4, 2015 | Abbi Nicolella
Two of the most highly-touted prospects of recent memory, 23-year old Joc Pederson of the L.A. Dodgers and 21-year old Joey Gallo of the Texas Rangers, have been setting the baseball world ablaze this week with a non-stop barrage of home runs that have people buying upper deck seats just to increase…
May 20, 2015 | Abbi Nicolella
PITTSBURGH – Last night, just a few hundred yards away from the Diamond Kinetics’ offices, Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Pedro Alvarez hit a 450-foot home run that landed in a boat docked up against the North Shore riverwalk on the Allegheny River. Technically, the blast by Alvarez was not a ‘splash…
April 24, 2015 | Abbi Nicolella
PITTSBURGH – Understanding the concept of playing baseball is fairly simple. You throw, you hit, you run and you catch. But understanding the language of baseball is far more complicated. During a nine-inning game, more than 1,000 silent instructions are given-from catcher to pitcher, coach to batter, fielder to fielder and umpire…
December 10, 2014 | Abbi Nicolella
On Tuesday, Bryan Cole of the SB Nation Blog Beyond The Box Score wrote an in-depth piece on #SwingTracker. Some highlights below…
October 30, 2014 | Abbi Nicolella
Congratulations are in order to the San Francisco Bumgarners for winning their third World Series in the past five years, with a dramatic Game 7 victory over the Kansas City Royals last night. The Bumgar…..oh, wait I’m sorry – the Giants, yes the Giants (even though no one would argue…
October 8, 2014 | Abbi Nicolella
PITTSBURGH – One of the four components SwingTracker measures is Control. Within that component lies the metric known as ‘hand cast’ distance.
