 Hey everybody, Jack Currie here with Intentional Walk and I'm going to throw a little curveball at you, pun intended. Instead of walking from home plate to first base, I'm taking a mound visit because today's Intentional Walk is going to involve pitching and we're going to get inside some of the new technology that is going on with pitchers. Every time a Yankee pitcher throws a bullpen session or has a live BP session slash a simulated game, the Yankees set up a Rapsodo pitching device and they also set up an Edutronic high speed camera. So you're saying to yourself, what are those? I'm going to tell you what those are. The Rapsodo machine is able to detect spin access, spin rate, spin efficiency. I was talking to Clark Schmidt, a minor league pitcher and a former first round draft pick who you may see in the major leagues in 2020 and he said he loves to be able to get all the information after he has done a session. For instance, you want your curveball to be at an efficiency of 99 percent and what Clark told me is that you will find out that that last curveball you threw, it was at 92 percent. So what did you do differently? Did you lower your arm angle? Did you change your grip on the pitch? He said it's a rabbit hole of information that you can go down but it can give you so much help in improving as a pitcher. Obviously the high speed camera, those are self-explanatory. Adam Aduvino has talked about how that rejuvenated his career to be able to get a frame by frame shot of what you're doing. I mean I'm not a pitcher but imagine a pitcher into his wind up and coming through and everything with your body. You want to be able to see frame by frame where those pitches are going. Again, Clark Schmidt told me that this has become a big part in what he does and trying to prepare so this is not your father's spring training anymore. When the Yankees have those pitching sessions there's a little table right behind the pitchers. You see the rap-soto machine, you see the high speed camera and you see the information funneling through there, getting to the pitcher and the hope and the belief is that it's going to make them even better on the mound. My song today, we're talking about spin rate so we're going to go back to the mid 80s to a band called Dead or Alive. You spin me right round, baby right round. Google that song, you'll enjoy it.