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2026-10-30 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-10-30

Landon Hershberger’s pitching-coach AI

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Editorial interest 79/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A high-school junior’s personal site documents an in-progress AI pitching coach built from curated coaching, pitch, biomechanics, and training data.

Landing page captured for the 2026-10-30 issue.
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Baseball players and coaches interested in pitching data
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The planned evaluation uses eight benchmarks against six frontier models; the page says the work is still in progress.

Field notes

The page says the project uses roughly 5,000 curated rows drawn from public research, MLB pitch-level data, biomechanics material, coaching content, and the author's own training logs. Its described loop fine-tunes a 27B model, runs eight benchmarks against six frontier models, then repeats; the author says this work remains in progress. It also says the dataset includes pitch-count rules for all 50 states and Washington, D.C.

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○OpenPublic substance visible
✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
◉HumanPersonal, local, civic, or handmade

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