Skip to content  Baseball is getting an eye in the sky  Jul 10,
2009, 10:04 AM EDT  Big Brother will soon be watching you, major
leaguers, and it’s a really, really good thing:  As baseball’s
statistical revolution marches on, the last refuge for the
baseball aesthete has been the sport’s less quantifiable skills:
outfielders’ arm strength, base-running efficiency and other
you-won’t-find-that-in-the-box-score esoterica. But debates over
the quickest center fielder or the rangiest shortstop are about
to graduate from argument to algorithm.  A new camera and
software system in its final testing phases will hundreds of
innovative statistics that will rate players more accurately,
almost certainly affect their compensation and perhaps alter how
the game itself is played.  This is going to be a huge in that
it will (a) take most of the guesswork out of player analysis by
allowing us to quantify defense and base running and things like
that; and (b) it will radically alter the scouting landscape,
likely replacing