The Kansas City Royals implemented an automated system for tracking player development data, including an injury tracking system, game reports, series reports and player profiles. In the business of Major League baseball, attracting the brightest talent requires big money. Marquee players who can deliver the hits or baffle opponents with wicked curveballs demand competitive contracts. Others can afford to look at players from both the Minors and the Majors. Either way, it amounts to a need to review a lot of information, from statistics to injury histories to game reports.
Baseball is a game of numbers, heavily reliant on statistics and other information.
These professionals are constantly on the road. More and more teams are turning to technology to help them sort through critical information. To give their scouts, trainers and player developers the timely, accurate information they need to make good decisions about drafts, trades and promotions, and they've automated their injury tracking system, their player profiles and their game and series reports. Last year, they piloted their automated injury tracking system, based on Lotus Notes and Domino, which gave player developers, trainers and scouts faster access to the latest performance and injury reports. When the Minor League season opened last spring, they added game reports, series reports and player profiles.