Charley Walters of the Twins Cities Pioneer Press talks to the Twins’ Derek Falvey, president of baseball operations, on how Artificial Intelligence might work in baseball.

“So we have to study that data now and decide where’s our right fielder’s going to play; here’s where our left fielder’s going to play. That’s what we do. There could be a more machine-oriented version of studying that to say, ‘Actually, for this pitcher, for this hitter, the right balance is actually here because of the way he throws his fastball, or because of the way he throws his breaking ball.

“There’s ways that we can’t even comprehend that’s so multi-dimensional. That could be how (AI) works in the future.”

TwinCities.com

Of course, this is how I’d like it to work: