New AI-powered analytical model tracks baseball players' path to the big show

Major League Baseball teams draft roughly 1,500 prospects annually, but less than 20% eventually make the jump to the majors. Building on statistical ideas and methods best known through the 2003 book "Moneyball," University of Maryland researchers may help them get there faster.

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