Perfect Follow-Up to Astro's Thread: LSU Early Adopters of Advanced Stats

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For the teams that can afford this luxury, this is the future of college baseball. Twenty-nine programs, including LSU, Mississippi State, TCU, Vanderbilt and South Carolina, use Sydex BATS — an advanced scouting video software program that, among other things, allows teams to cut recorded games pitch-by-pitch, sorting the results by count, pitch type, hit type and creating spray charts for each player.

TrackMan, a radar-measured tracking system of spin rates and velocities — both on balls off the bat and out of a pitcher’s hand — that offered LSU and former director of baseball operations Ross Brezovsky the program as part of a collegiate pilot program in 2012.

As cleared by the NCAA Compliance office, Major League Baseball subsidized the data collected from the 12 schools that participated in the program. Brezovsky was then tasked with presenting the proposal to Paul Mainieri — his traditionalist boss and former coach who, to that point, had been averse to the technologies starting to invade baseball.

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