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The Out in Left Weekly: May 19, 2024

Load management and nothing more

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Brendan Dentino
May 19, 2024
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A member of the Oakland Athletics coaching staff uses a tablet to look at data on Texas Rangers' hitters in the second inning of a baseball game, Saturday, April 8, 2017, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Jeffrey McWhorter)
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Load management comes to baseball

ESPN published a piece this week about MLB teams’ emerging interest in “load management”—the practice of monitoring and moderating a player’s physical activity to maximize in-game performance—and I had to check that a Fitbit didn’t write it. Among the things not mentioned or explored:

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