Mississippi State's Ethan Small (Aaron Fitt)

Man vs Machine: Top 25 Pitching Prospects

Human Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence: February 10, 1996 changed the world forever when Deep Blue beat chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in the first game of a six game chess match, marking the first such time that a computer had ever beaten a human in such an environment.

Will the day come when MLB draft picks are determined solely by computer systems, with human participation limited solely to data collection and input? In several organizations that day may be already here. Across organizations prospect valuations are based on a model which considers a wide array of data, including but not[…]