December 07, 2004
Computers Broke the Red Sox Curse
eWeeks has a fascinating article on how the Red Sox leveraged information technology to help their baseball team. The club as a state-of-the-art video archive system that can queue up video on opposing players in an instant. Now the IT infrastructure is 200 PCs strong with 130 terabytes of hard-disk space. VOIP phone service is available to the scouts and managers and a new CRM system is on its way.There, Roberts asked Billy Broadbent, who handles video systems for the Red Sox, to queue up footage of New York Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera pitching from the stretch with a man on first base. Two innings later, Roberts put to good use what he had learned from the team's massive digital archive of opposing pitchers.
