Mets' Green: Team Compliant With MLB After AI Report
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- Andy Green, Mets interim manager, said the club is 'fully compliant' with Major League Baseball when asked about a report singling out the team for using AI in in-game strategy decisions, speaking before Saturday's game against the Philadelphia Phillies.
- Adam Ottavino, former Mets reliever (2022-24) and now a YES Network broadcaster, claimed on his YouTube livestream 'Baseball & Coffee' that the Mets were 'the main team that got cracked down on' for using an expensive AI program to help pick pitches.
- Ottavino attributed the Mets' AI use to team owner Steve Cohen's spending on the software, saying coaches 'around the league' were talking about the program early in the season.
- Major League Baseball restricted iPad usage in dugouts — specifically disabling a custom tab that previously let teams access outside programs — effective Wednesday night when the second half of the season began.
- Green declined to comment directly on Ottavino's assertions, saying 'I don't think it does us any good to talk about what everybody says publicly,' and deferred to MLB on the issue.
Why it matters: MLB has now formally shut off teams' ability to run custom software on dugout iPads, and the Mets are the first club publicly named as having leaned on AI for in-game decisions — meaning the league's crackdown has a concrete target, and the financial stakes (Cohen's spending) hint at how widespread dugout tech experimentation may have been.
