This season I find myself having iPad the MLB app open most of the time when I'm watching the Red Sox. It has become an addon to the experience of watching baseball that I find very helpful.
Here's what I use it for:
- Pitch counts – always available. Only available part time on TV
- Strike zone tracking – always available.
- Quick boxscore checks around the league
- If I miss a bit of the game I can go back and look at the play summaries and check stats
- Highlights. Especially if its a play I missed, but also to look back on plays.
- Highlights of plays in other games.
- Put on the radio broadcast of the game when I just want to casually listen
- Occasional checking out the free MLB.tv game of the day
- Checking the standings
- Checking league wide stats.
A few additions I'd like to see:
- Kind of a picture-in-picture deal where you can have to gamecasts running by having another game running in a small corner of the screen.
- More detailed stats on the pitcher-hitter matchups
- More highlights
- Highlights are available more quickly after a play
- Better stats exploration. It has the beginnings of what could be a great interface for browsing seasonal and all-time statistics. I'd love to be able to filter by years.
- Add team based stats