Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. Are you watching MLB baseball and seeing catchers touching some weird remote control thing on their wrists and wondered what was up with that? We’ve got you covered.
That’s right, we’ve got ourselves some spiffy new technology that’s making its regular-season debut in Major League Baseball in 2022: It’s something called PitchCom, and the whole idea behind it is to combat sign-stealing, which very much came to a head with the Houston Astros scandal.
So what’s the deal here? Let’s jump in: