For good or ill, the youth baseball experience worldwide is about to be more information-rich than ever. If anything, though, objective measurements provide fuel for competitiveness and a new way to hook kids on an old game. The same people who say stats suck the joy out of following baseball may also say that launch angles and spin rates suck the joy out of playing it, but just as there’s nothing joyless about understanding the sport in a different and deeper way, there’s nothing joyless about being better at it.
