MLB doubles camera angles for reviews
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TAKING a chance to review instant replay, Major League Baseball doubled the isolated cameras available for video reviews to 24 this year.
MLB also arranged for high-frame rate cameras to stream directly to the new replay operations center and ballpark video rooms, and for MLB-controlled 4K cameras with zoom lenses to be installed at high locations behind home plate.
A new replay hub about twice the size of the old one was constructed as part of the move of Major League Baseball and MLB Advanced Media to a combined office space in Manhattan, across the street from Radio City Music Hall.
“We think that the product of all these items is going to result in a much more rapid review process, so that we’ll be getting video available much more quickly to the umpires, who will be making decision more quickly,” said Chris Marinak, MLB executive vice president of strategy, technology and innovation.
“The same will be true of the replay personnel in the ballpark, who are helping their manager make a decision on whether to challenge.”
Each manager will have 20 seconds to decide whether to ask for a video review of a call subject to a challenge, down from 30.
MLB’s pandemic-delayed season started on Thursday with the New York Yankees at the World Series champion Washington Nationals.
MLB started widespread video review in 2014 after years of embarrassing calls, such as the blown call by first base umpire Jim Joyce that denied Detroit’s Armando Galarraga what should have been the final out of a perfect game.
There were 1,275 reviews during the 2019 regular season, including 1,051 requested by managers that averaged 1 minute, 46 seconds.
Among those calls, almost half were overturned, 24.3 percent were confirmed, nearly 30 percent were allowed to stand and less than 1 percent were for record keeping.
Clear plastic barriers have been installed and additional conference rooms will be used to enable social distancing. If the Toronto Blue Jays play home games at a non-regular season MLB facility, cameras for video review would be installed.
Also debuting this week is a second-generation Statcast system that shifts from TrackMan and Doppler radar to Hawk-Eye and an array of 12 cameras whose data will be stored on Google Cloud to create graphics for scoreboards and broadcasts.
Five of the cameras are targeted for pitch tracking, four behind the plate and one in center field, and seven are used to track players.
Each camera is 4K resolution and typically tracks at a rate of 100 frames per second, though they can be sped to as fast as 500 frames per second.
“We’re trying to set a foundation here with this new deployment that we can innovate on for the next five years as technology continues to progress,” said Jason Gaedtke, MLB’s chief technology officer.
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