Steve Stemle, owner of Lokator Pitching Academy, New Albany, Indiana, has invented advanced baseball pitch location technology that should be used by anyone serious about pitch location, tracking pitches and pitch development. Stemle, a former Major League pitcher with the Kansas City Royals has utilized his pitching and coaching experience to devise a throwing target layout more advanced than the typical rectangular strike zone currently used by today’s players, coaches and scouts.

Stemle, a former Major League pitcher with the Kansas City Royals, has taken his pitching and coaching experience to develop a non-conventional throwing target (called THE LOKATOR®) for aiming pitches at locations or “zones” both inside and outside the strike zone. Seeing that not every pitch has to be located within the strike zone to be effective, the layout of THE LOKATOR also helps develop pitch sequencing in and around the strike zone that may be practiced and utilized when facing particular batters – especially at the college and professional levels. As Stemle states on his website:

“We are the first baseball and softball training system capable of documenting pitch Lokation analytics while teaching pitch command, selection, and sequencing.”

Just as important, the layout of the zones of THE LOKATOR provide advanced communication between pitchers and catchers for better defining desired pitch locations in and around the strike zone.

To date, Stemle has received several U.S. patents for THE LOKATOR including Patent Nos. 8,579,734, 8,668,604 and D597155. Stemle also has patent pending computer based technology including a new smartphone app effective for manual use and/or for use with a video camera of a smartphone for imaging thrown baseballs/softballs and collecting and storing data points in relation to actual pitch location when using the actual LOKATOR or by way of a programmed virtual LOKATOR when throwing to an actual catcher. Stemle’s technology can be used in both live game and practice situations. Moreover, the app is effective for collecting, storing and assessing data points such as the intended pitch location and realized pitch location in a more specific and meaningful way for informing pitchers and coaches as to a pitcher’s actual accuracy and development over time.

For more information about THE LOKATOR or to contact Steve Stemle directly, please see his company website at: https://www.lokatorpitchingacademy.com.

 

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