The Texas Rangers are one of five MLB teams that hasn’t won a World Series yet, but they are leading the AL West at the season’s midway point. The team has invested in data, analytics, and AI to gain an advantage on the field. Alexander Booth, the assistant director of research and development within baseball operations for the Texas Rangers, discussed the team’s investment in data, analytics, and AI during the Databricks Data + AI Summit. The Rangers’ big data operation has undergone a transformation over the past couple of years, with an explosion of new data sources and a move into Databricks’ lakehouse running in the cloud. The team is using markerless motion capture systems to track the movements of players’ joints and real-time wind, temperature, and humidity data collected from ballparks every five seconds.
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