Baseball season is just a week old, but we’ve already been hearing a lot about a new technology that allows MLB pitchers and catchers to communicate with the push of a button, and thereby prevent sign-stealing -- PitchCom. And it turns out, the seemingly magical technology was, in fact, invented by two magicians. Today, The Athletic’s Zach Buchanan introduces us to those two magicians, describes how their gizmo works (without giving away all of its secrets), and explains why these two, of all people, are the ones who seem to have solved one of baseball’s oldest problems.

Read Zach Buchanan's full story about PitchCom:

https://theathletic.com/2951011/2021/11/18/its-magic-right-meet-pitchcom-the-device-created-by-two-magicians-to-solve-baseballs-sign-stealing-problem/

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