Week 7 MBA 6101 Implications of AI On My Career

 To address some of my insight on the implications of AI on my career there are actually already several ways on how AI impacts my work field. I currently work at the Arizona Diamondbacks stadium in Phoenix where digital technology is taking the game of baseball to a higher level using "Statcast". This is the technology that calculates many different things such as bat velocity, exit velocity (speed of the ball off the bat) launch angles, and digital strike zones. The digital strike zones itself is probably the biggest example of how AI is being used at my very own work, it can assist the human eye with an electronic representation of the strike zone when humans fail to make right calls in real time speed. However, Balls and strikes cannot be reviewed and are the final judgment of the umpire but it just gives you a visual if the umpires calls are close or not.  Another huge way AI is implemented in baseball is radar guns to determine pitch speed and sensors that can track how much movement and spin rate each pitch has. Truthfully this is the most interesting form of AI in my opinion to track and study elements like this in baseball and use them for getting better. 

Another way AI can be implemented in baseball is each MLB organization has a "Baseball Operations department" which is where employees perform player analysis and do team analytics such as computing batting average, On Base Percentage, Slugging, Earned Run Average, Etc. For those of you that have seen the movie Moneyball with Brad Pitt this is the prime example of what is going on right there. As we have learned from Dr. Kelsey many platforms and machines are on the rise to be computing data and analytics on their own for us. Software's could easily be designed that perform all of that data analysis for us and could potentially take jobs of the people that do it manually. However, it could be more efficient and time consuming for all of the players data to be performed by computers instantly. If you have never checked out Statcast, I would highly recommend you check it out and see all of the ways AI is being implemented in sports.  

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Royals best Statcast numbers (mlb.com)