Theo Epstein and Bill James have some scouting to do — University of Tokyo researchers have made pitching and hitting robots which can play nearly perfect games against each other, calling into question the whole point of playing the game in the first place.
The pitcher throws a 24 mph fastball and, being a robot, would presumably be pretty durable — wait, somebody check under Tim Wakefield’s face for a metal skull.
“The pitching robot uses an arm from MIT and a three-fingered hand developed in-house (that’s so nimble it can open and close 10 times per second) to release a strike zone pitch 90% of the time. Meanwhile the batting robot offers intense competition by wielding a 1000fps camera that can track the pitch in realtime, connecting with the ball almost every time it flies in the strike zone.”
Posted by Brendan Lynch
Tags: baseball, Bill James, Theo Epstein, Tim Wakefield, University of Tokyo
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