Major League Baseball is stepping up its experimentation with an electronic communication channel for pitchers and catchers.
After trying out the PitchCom system at Low-A West in the second half of last season, big league clubs are tinkering with the technology during spring training.
"We sprung it on Sevie at 12:15 before he was going out. He was game for it but we sprung it on him, no hiccups. No problems, and that's our first game doing it, so that's good thing. Hopefully it's something that we can get better at doing," Boone said.As far as using it someday in the regular season, "I want to keep flushing that out the best we can. But my first impression of it, I feel like we're on to something. I thought it was really good," Boone said.
College baseball is already using an electronic system for calling pitches. With Game Day Signals, the calls are relayed from the dugout to a receiver on the pitcher's wrist. "I like it. It's nice. ... It gives the hitters zero chance of knowing what's coming," White Sox right-hander Dylan Cease said.
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