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It has a video screen on which a pitcher goes through his windup; at his release point, a ball shoots through a hole in the screen. Sounds like a relatively basic pitching machine, right? Way wrong. The revolutionary ProBatter Professional ($74,999; see ProBatter.com for more details) can throw any pitch to any location at any speed--splitters, cutters, sliders, sinkers, 100-mph fastballs, lefty or righty, from the stretch or the windup. And the list of buyers--including the Yankees, Red Sox, Indians, Mets and White Sox and several big-league players--is growing fast.
Nothing beats the real thing; the simulator is unable to emulate, for example, Randy Johnson's release point. Says big-leaguer David ...