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Background
Major League Baseball and Hawk-eye Technologies first partnered up in 2014, when Hawk-eye began providing in-game replays from 15 different camera angles in order to improve the decision making of umpires. Hawk-eye, founded in 1999 by Dr. Paul Hawkins, has a rich 20 year reputation in sport; providing tracking system analysis for sports like tennis, cricket, and soccer has impressed many executives in the sport world.

Hawk-eye and MLB in 2020
One of the people that Hawk-eye impressed the most were the executives in the MLB, who late in 2019 announced they would be moving on from their current tracking system to implement the hawk-eye tracking systems. The root of this switch up comes after the deal between MLB and Trackman came to an end, and in hopes of finding better results the MLB reached out to Hawk-eye to implement their tracking systems in all 30 stadiums and the permanent home in Buffalo for the Blue Jays during the 2020 season. This deal is known to be a multi-year deal and will be available for fans through statcast data found in relevant websites.

The system that the MLB is implementing across all their stadiums is composed of 19 total cameras; 12 who will be responsible for full-field tracking, 7 additional cameras who are solely responsible for tracking player movement and batted balls. The +/- .1 inch accuracy when tracking live ball and player movement is one of the biggest advantages provided by the optical tracking system and vision-processing technology. One of the most productive things that this system brings to the game of baseball is the ability to determine the precise release point and trajectory of every single pitch.

Bibliography:
https://technology.mlblogs.com/introducing-statcast-2020-hawk-eye-and-google-cloud-a5f5c20321b8

https://www.hawkeyeinnovations.com/sports/baseball

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hawk-eye-innovations-and-mlb-introduce-next-gen-baseball-tracking-and-analytics-platform-301115828.html

https://theathletic.com/975903/2019/05/14/sarris-mlb-moving-from-trackman-to-hawk-eye-tracking-system/