Computing a knuckleball

Baseball coaches and scouts have always used pitch speed as the one objective measurement to analyze pitchers. Everything else is mechanics, which have never had a statistic to match up with efficiency.

That is, until the introduction of the RevFire.

The RevFire is a light, handheld device that actually measures the speed and spin of a ball using a microchip embedded in specialty baseballs and softballs. Through these calculations, coaches can analyze the type of movement their hurlers are putting on pitches.

“We’ve been measuring speed forever, it’s become part of the game. Coaches use it all the time to…