The Effect of Visualization on Hitter Performance

Thrift's experiments sparked team success as the pirates improved from a 57 and 104 record in 1985 to an 85 and 75 record in 1988 good enough for second in the nl east. The improvement halted there though as thrift who had disagreements with pirates ownership throughout his tenure was fired by the team's board of directors following the 1988 season this article which i will link to as always has a cool little graphic at the top of a baseball playing robot sort of scary looking baseball robot but that goes along with the new age baseball theme here.