Artificial intelligencemodels are all the rage these days, with Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and other models all providing new opportunities, and plenty of questions.

Disruption is coming for virtually every industry, as models are improved, calculations are automated, and complicated processes quick answers. You'd think that one industry though, might be more immune to the AI revolution: sports.

Outcomes are decided on the field, pitch, court, or rink, based on the performance of human beings. Humans that can't be replaced by learning language models or computers. Yet a former topMajor League Baseballpitching prospect revealed recently that AI can be used in sports, and in doing so, might have disrupted the entire industry in one fell swoop.a

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Robert Stock, a former top pitching prospect who played in a number of different organizations, as well as in Korean baseball, Mexico, and elsewhere, took to X, explaining how he may have revolutionized the sport in just a few months.

Stock, despite having no training in software programming, built a custom model to rate the quality of pitches in a given pitcher's arsenal. As well as their location, movement, and "Stuff+," a metric to compare pitches between players. It's a remarkable tool that can give pitchers access to an incredible amount of information, areas to improve, help game plan, and find what type of pitch they should add to become more effective.

This used to be an internal process, where all 30 teams hire research and development departments to build similar models. And Stock just…did it by himself over a few months.

"Every other pitch model is a proprietary thing," Stock toldThe Athleticthis week. "These people spend a lot of time working to try to perfect it, and in doing so, they don’t want everyone to know their secret. I don’t know anything in the first place, so let’s do it together."

Stock said this type of information could be extremely valuable, especially for younger athletes just starting out.

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