Tom Glavine: ‘I accomplished the things I wanted to accomplish, and when that happens, it’s a little easier to walk away’
Article By cbahr.tsn on 29th April, 2010
Despite calling it a career last summer, Tom Glavine has stayed busy in baseball. He recently agreed to a multiplatform position with the Braves, with whom he won 244 games over 17 seasons, and he has aligned himself with the new PitchSight product. Ken Riddle, director of business development for L-3 Communications, which developed PitchSight and QuesTec, says this new technology can be used for scouting, evaluation, progress measurement, assessment and even injury rehabilitation. The system, already in use at Boston College, uses cameras to record a pitcher's measurables. Glavine recently spoke with Sporting News' Chris Bahr about PitchSight, his new role with the Braves and couple of the Braves' young arms.
SN: How is PitchSight useful for a pitcher?
Glavine: What I like about it is the feedback. It gives you the ability to gather information and use that information almost instantaneously. It measures release point, release angle, location, break, velocity. Those are all things pitchers are interested in and are all directly related to a pitcher's ability to be consistent and consistently throw good pitches in the strike zone. ... You're in the middle of a bullpen session. If there's a particular pitch that you threw that you felt really good about, you go to the computer, find the pitch, see where your release angle was, where your release point was, how the pitch correlated to the strike zone.
SN: What could you have used it for most in your career?
Glavine: The two pitches I struggled with most were my breaking balls. If I was able to throw a slider or throw a curveball I really liked, and this information was available where I could pinpoint the pitch, see where my arm angle, release point and all those things were, I think it would have been a little bit easier for me to focus on the release point and things like that -- things that seemed to escape me a bit when it came to those two particular pitches.
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SN: How is PitchSight useful for a pitcher?
Glavine: What I like about it is the feedback. It gives you the ability to gather information and use that information almost instantaneously. It measures release point, release angle, location, break, velocity. Those are all things pitchers are interested in and are all directly related to a pitcher's ability to be consistent and consistently throw good pitches in the strike zone. ... You're in the middle of a bullpen session. If there's a particular pitch that you threw that you felt really good about, you go to the computer, find the pitch, see where your release angle was, where your release point was, how the pitch correlated to the strike zone.
SN: What could you have used it for most in your career?
Glavine: The two pitches I struggled with most were my breaking balls. If I was able to throw a slider or throw a curveball I really liked, and this information was available where I could pinpoint the pitch, see where my arm angle, release point and all those things were, I think it would have been a little bit easier for me to focus on the release point and things like that -- things that seemed to escape me a bit when it came to those two particular pitches.
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