DRAGONS is a champion of the central league this year (there are two leagues in Japan: the central league and the pacific league). DRAGONS has just made a new room which is for analyzing movement and its costs might be more than $50.000.
Yoshiaki Katakai who is the first head of the room took note of the Dartfish software at the spring camp in Okinawa three years ago. There was a Korean pro baseball team that was using the software and he was surprised to find that it was more efficient than he ever knows. "I really wanted the software but it could unfortunately not be used for Japanese operation system. Then I lately heard that it will be possible to use it in Japan". He decided to buy the software quickly, it should be used for next season. "I think it is really effective for analyzing pitching form. It will verify good form or bad form, even little bit faster arm moves. It's like medical records. We record good form and compare another bad form through a screen. Using no words, just showing the video is easy to understand for players".
There is another pro team named YOKOHAMA BAYSTARS that already have the Dartfish software. Science technology has been changed coaching system of baseball.
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