DURHAM, N.C. - USA Baseball announced a multi-year partnership with Diamond Kinetics on Tuesday, making the Pittsburgh-based technology company an Official Player Development Partner of the organization.
As part of the partnership, USA Baseball will utilize Diamond Kinetics' SwingTracker bat sensor and PitchTracker smart baseball technologies for its six national teams and three national team development programs, as well as select national team identification events and development programs.

"We are very pleased and excited to partner with Diamond Kinetics to usher in state-of-the-art tools, technology and collaborative content to USA Baseball," said Paul Seiler, USA Baseball's Executive Director and CEO. "It is critical in this new era of baseball evaluation, training and development to have quantifiable, objective information accessible at a moment's notice and Diamond Kinetics will allow USA Baseball to utilize this essential data in its efforts to further develop its athletes."
USA Baseball will introduce this innovative technology to its 2019 programming during the Prospect Development Pipeline and the recently announced Prospect Development Pipeline League. Additionally, the Diamond Kinetics technology will be utilized during evaluation days at the National Team Championships in Arizona and Florida, and the National Team Identification Series Champions Cup at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina.
All USA Baseball national team and national team development program members will have access to the smart, sensor-based technology beginning in 2019 and both organizations will jointly collaborate on custom software tools to further enhance the technology and its impact on total athlete development.
"We are very excited at the opportunity to partner with such an esteemed, respected and influential organization as USA Baseball," said Diamond Kinetics CEO C.J. Handron. "Together, we can fully modernize how players are scouted and evaluated with Diamond Kinetic's wide array of smart, capable technologies. We are excited to tap USA Baseball's expertise to develop and distribute high-quality instructional and educational content through our apps and digital channels."
Furthermore, USA Baseball and Diamond Kinetics will work together to produce free educational and instructional content that will be accessible via Diamond Kinetics' mobile apps and throughout all of USA Baseball's online education platforms, including the Mobile Coach App and SportDev.org.