What the Mets are getting out of their pricey, futuristic pitching machine

Corey Sipkin; Picture courtesy of Trajekt

The Mets’ costly new toy is assembled and operational, offering hitters with one other software of their fixed quest for an edge.

Throughout the group’s West Coast journey in early June, a high-tech pitching machine arrived at Citi Discipline that permits hitters to program in a particular pitcher. The machine responds by mimicking that pitcher’s supply and spin price.

“I've gotten to make use of it, and it’s good,” Brandon Nimmo mentioned. “The humorous factor is you learn the way a lot info you get from [pitchers in] actual life that you simply don’t get from video, however it’s good to have the ability to get right into a routine and a rhythm with regardless of the windup may be, regardless of the stretch may be.

“This can be very useful to see what the spin may seem like on their breaking balls, fastballs, all of that. I wouldn’t say it’s precisely like going on the market and hitting off of a giant league pitcher, however it’s fairly darn shut and it’s a software that we undoubtedly have used and can proceed to make use of and work into our routines.”