For Major League Baseball, the basic business model hasn't really changed since 1869.

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But according to Tadashi Yamazaki, one of the scientists who worked on the project, the baseball-playing robot is the second largest model of its kind and it runs in real time, meaning its much faster than other systems.

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Other celebrity investors followed suit, including fashion model Heidi Klum, fitness trainer Jillian Michaels and Boston Red Sox baseball player David Ortiz.

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It would also be refreshing to see Major League Baseball form a committee of draft experts and scholars to thoroughly study the current model of operations.

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The pure stats vs. salary model doesn't work as well as it does in sports like baseball, with its individual tilt and myriad numbers (a top defensive back, for example, may not have many interceptions because opposing teams avoid throwing to his side of the field).

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While associations are known to form based on sight, smell, and other senses -- you may remember last year's baseball game through the taste of a hot dog today, for example -- their computer model shows that the young brain cells also link through time.

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