Matt Foley visits the pitching lab Adam Ottavino assembled in Harlem:

At the Lab, Ottavino sat behind a laptop and a tripod, filming his friends with a small, blue 3,350-frame-per-second camera and giving advice between pitches. The cameras are part of the data-driven pursuit with which Ottavino has saved his career. Now, after a breakout 2018 season with the Colorado Rockies, he’s spreading the word as he prepares for spring training, which opens Thursday.

“You learn things in here, about preparation and practice, that you didn’t even expect to pick up,” said Alex Katz, a St. John’s alumnus now in the Chicago White Sox organization. When Katz finished throwing, one of the Lab’s most loyal regulars, a 30-year-old left-hander named Andres Caceres, took the mound. A Queens native and veteran of independent leagues, Caceres is trying to perfect a cutter with tons of late movement.

“Whatever it is, it’s filthy,” said Ottavino, suggesting Caceres put more pressure on his pointer finger.

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It’s great to see players embracing not only analytics, but taking the analysis into their own hands. The nice thing is, this will give Ottavino a career beyond baseball as he can compete with Driveline, so pitchers on the east coast won’t need to fly across the country for this kind of coaching.