Sig Mejdal found a way to help with the Orioles player development despite not being able to attend practices:

But Mejdal stayed in the loop, thanks in part to the latest gadgets in the game – body sensors, bat trackers, force pads and more.

A bit more advanced than Zoom.

“Beyond the fact that there were fewer games, no minor league games in the parks, … we had a full allocation of coaches and a full allocation of whatever tech we have in our system,” Mejdal said in a recent interview with “MASN All Access.”

In his second season as Orioles vice president and assistant general manager of analytics, Mejdal reprised his role of the invisible counselor: collecting and analyzing data to help players fix flaws in their game that had previously gone undetected.

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This is where Mejdal’s NASA background comes in handy. He also notes how much more this generation of players wants the data:

“It keeps surprising me how quickly the interest from the players for these previously pushed back-on technologies or data or processes or ideas, how rapidly that changes,” Mejdal said. “You can’t be a player today and expect to be all you can be without taking advantage of all the resources available and that includes the technology that’s out there now.”

Part of that comes from Mejdal supplying players with ideas that work.