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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Big news! At www.beisbol.ai we proudly present our Framing App! State-of-the-art object tracking for quantifying and analyzing catchers' framing skills! Measure distance, displacement, velo and multiple other metrics to gauge the framing process and extract the needed data for further eval.

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I'm thrilled to announce that we're officially launching beisbol.ai! For years, we have been passionate about the intersection of baseball and artificial intelligence. Today, we're taking a huge step forward in our mission to revolutionize the game. #beisbolAI

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Read the full length of what Torii Hunter had to say about the great Bobby Abreu, and plenty of many other facts about why he is a worthy candidate to be in the Hall of Fame, here: bobbyabreuhofer.org

A poster with the start of a quote from Torii Hunter on Abreu: "When I played against Bobby, I always thought that he was a great player. It wasn't until we became teammates that I began to really see..."

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

And finally trims the frames that are not part of the detected motion. In this case, the clip was trimmed to a little over one second using the tool. This can be done in batches to process multiple videos and then concatenate them together for other processing purposes (8/n)

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The tool then checks the pitcher segmentation changes over time to detect the start of motion and the stabilization of segmentation to detect the end of motion (7/n).

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

After properly finding the pitcher, we can get his boundaries box and apply the proper segmentation through the use of SAM2. (5/n)

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

are like 4 seconds extra, if we only want the pitcher motion part. In our pipeline, we first need to detect where the pitcher is; this can be achieved using BaseballCV's phc_detector model (Pitcher, Hitter, Catcher detector) (4/n):

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

There are multiple paths to working this out but at the core, you want to: find the pitcher, track its motion from start to end (ball release), trim clip accordingly. Let's use this pitch from BBB, as an example. It's a typical 6-seconds short clip from Savant but there (3/n)

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Let's discuss setting up Computer Vision pipelines for your baseball needs, and let's use a practical example: an AI Video Editor, which at BaseballCV, is one of the projects we are currently working on. If you used our app, baseballcv-savant-data-and-video.streamlit.app, for creating this (1/n)

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Spencer Strider is looking more and more like Quadzilla again! Watch him making the Mets swing and miss in this highlights reel! You can create yours easily using BaseballCV’s Savant Data and Video app: baseballcv-savant-data-and-video.streamlit.app It’s easy and requires no login!

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Do you wanna see Mike Soroka mowing down hitters left and right? Try Highlights but for pitchers:

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Let's look at an example: Searching for highlights from Ronald Acuña Jr. in the last 10 days.

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

It's so cool to see so many downloads for the dataset in such a short time. Wow!

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

that it can be done, needing only a reasonable quality video. That's what our CommandAnalyzer class, part of the Baseball Tools in BaseballCV aims to achieve, after these proof of concepts. It'll be available soon from github.com/dylandru/Bas...

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

but the timing varies greatly; that's an issue. Also, some barely show intent location and then "hide" the glove, so these two things are opposing in how to handle them and mess up with each other, for example. There are a lot of things to take care of but the point is (4/)

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Trying to catch, pun intended, the Target position of the glove, just by using the full sequence's glove position tracking, is not trivial as there are many implicit variables working at the same time. A lot of catchers put the glove down after showing the intended location (3/)

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

After Dylan Drummey and I got a fully working catcher's glove tracking tool, we wanted to find useful applications for it and this is one that popped up immediately: Can "intend/actual" tracking be done by means of using only that glove data? Well, it looks like it does. (2/)

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

How complicated is it to calculate any sort of deviation between where a pitcher "Targeted" to throw a pitch and where it "Actually" landed? It can be very complicated, especially if you don't use sophisticated systems involving advanced tracking devices. Or maybe not? (1/)

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Keeping up with a long-time tradition, I almost blew up my whole TGFBI budget before May. Also, Will Vest, lol.

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

from high-end tracking systems, like the one used by Statcast, show that BaseballCV's tool has a lot to offer in this area. Dylan and I are now working on improving the detection model to add a layer of more accurate results that will enhance the quailty of them. github.com/dylandru/Bas...

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Using the GloveTracker tool (already available at the BaseballCV repo!), we extracted the data for the catcher's glove movement - from this pitch - and it was compared with actual Statcast data for the catcher's gloved wrist (thanks, @tangotiger.com!), and very preliminar comps with the info (cont)

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Another cool tool being brought to BaseballCV. Still a WIP, but Dylan Drummey & I developed a tool to generate real Catcher Glove Locations throughout a pitch! Interpolated values made some sharp changes, but hoping to fix w/ the better model. Soon available at the repo: github.com/dylandru/Bas...

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

for the 03/1 18 period and his ADP bumped a little to 472. Then, I took the same period but only for Main Event drafts and he went up to 410; while that's still cheap. it's also a better than 100 places in ADP improvement mostly skewed by people doing the high-stakes draft. It's imperfect, though.

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Hey, Sky! This is a great question, thanks for bringing it up. I'd say it's a mix of things; yes, some of it is chitchat but I also did this: I took the ADP from 02/15 to 03/1 for all 15-teamers non-auction drafts from the NFBC site, for that period Canning's ADP was 524. Then I did the same but

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Abraham Almonte, who last played in MLB with the Mets, for just 8 games in 2023, just massacred a ball in the Dominican Republic winter league, for a Grand Slam.

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I can’t believe that, for once, Oakland did the right thing as, 60x5 for Rooker is a 🎁.

Chart with power hitting stats for Brent Rooker.

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This is Sara, my daughter and the love of my life. She is a beautiful soul, sensible and generous, with a passion for helping and serving. As such, she earned a spot as a voluntary in an international program, meaning she should cross the Atlantic on January as part of (1/7)

Sara holding painting instruments while doing some of his voluntary work.

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

It’s an amazing thing to see the work on computer vision models and tools developed at BaseballCV, the repo Dylan Drummey and I cofounded, being mentioned in a prominent piece about new data collection tech & trends on @theathletic.bsky.social by the great @enosarris.bsky.social ! Beyond exciting!

A snapshot of a snippet of the article in the quoted skeet, shows a tweet by Dylan Drummey describing a Computer Vision application developed in conjunction wi the Carlos Marcano for the analysis of One-Knee-Down/ No-One-Knee-Down catcher’s positions thorough video.

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This was too long overdue. Still, extremely happy for the memory of Mr. Allen and for his family. Congratulations, Dick!

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

forget those breads as they made me a believer in miracles and in a Bigger Purpose. Today we bake again, not for sale but to share with others. Life isn’t easy, uncertainty is part of our lives and I still have a lot to learn. But I have faith and hope. Happy Holidays!" (8/8)

My youngest son, filling with olives the breads, getting them ready to be baked, with a million dollars smile in his face.

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I've had a tradition of posting this dear-to-my-heart thread in the other place, so I thought of keeping it here: "Close to Christmas, it's time to share an experience I've made a tradition to put out here. The story involves one of our most typical Holiday dishes in Venezuela: Ham Bread. (1/)

Two Venezuelan Ham Breads side to side after just been baked.

One of the ham breads, recently baked and sliced.

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This paragraph from @justinklugh.bsky.social in this piece for @baseballprospectus.com got me feeling like a superhero and a wimpy kid at the same time. You should read it all, as it will surely make you feel a lot of things too. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

The image is just a screenshot from the linked article, reading: "We here at Baseball Prospectus are listening. You’ll need stewards into baseball’s twisted future, a human shield of disposable nerds between you and the madman Rob Manfred."

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Again, you don’t gauge single season’s accomplishments heavier than what was accomplished in the hitters (in this case) record during his whole career, according to the rules for the Hall elections. baseballhall.org/hall-of-fame...

Incide 5 of HoF rules establish the. Red to gauge the full player record.

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

There’s a problem, Jimmy: you’re using your personal criteria in direct defiance of what the Hall guidance rules say; for example, your perfect games example - and Gwynn’s almost .400 - are almost direct affronts to said rules: baseballhall.org/hall-of-fame... I’d recommend reading the rules.

Incide 6 of the rules for the Hall of Fame Election forbid Automatic Elections based on things like pitching a perfect game or hitting .400.

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I did the ChatGPT thing where you tell it, "Based on what you know about me, draw me a picture of what you think my current life looks like." Now I need more screens to replicate this more accurately, lol.

A vibrant home-office setup showcasing a tech-savvy individual balancing work and passion. The workspace features dual monitors displaying code, a YOLO model interface, and a Flask project. A nearby screen plays a baseball game, symbolizing a connection to sports analytics. A Streamlit app setup with a camera highlights a focus on pose analysis. The room is cozy yet modern, with sports memorabilia, tech gadgets, and a coffee mug adding personality and warmth.

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

More: This is the list of players in MLB history with multiple seasons of more than 40 doubles, 20 SB, .400 OBP, and .300 batting average. 8 out of 10 are HoFers, one is Shoeless Jackson and the other is Bobby Abreu. #BobbyAbreu4HOF stathead.com/tiny/a2eOI

The image shows the list of MLB players with multiple seasons of more than 40 doubles, 20 SB, .400 OBP, and .300 batting average, taken from Stathead. Bobby Abreu is prominently featured among all-time greats.

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I thought you guys said they didn’t let all kind of people in, here.

Some Jordan dude following me back. ( jokes apart, Jordan is one of the top 15 fantasy baseball players in the world, as per his qualification to the first ever Champions League in NFBC).

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Carlos Marcano, Bob Abreu & Dick Allen Stan. @camarcano.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Todavía hay oportunidad de inscribirse en el Diplomado de Sabermetría que dictaré para la Universidad UAPA - INCAPRE desde el 21/11, no pierdas el chance, no habrá prorroga después de allí. Puedes hacerlo desde cualquier parte del mundo, información en: www.uapa.edu.do/cursos-incap...

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