Inside Edge, Inc. provides scouting services and tools to baseball teams and media. Inside Edge scouting reports were used extensively by six World Champions in a row: the 1996 Yankees, the 1997 Marlins, 1998 Yankees, 1999 Yankees, 2000 Yankees, and the 2001 Diamondbacks.

Through innovative processes and technologies, Inside Edge produces scouting reports that are considered the clearest and most useful in the industry. The most recognizable element of the reports are the “Hit Zones,” which use colors to show a hitter’s strong and weak locations within the strike zone.

Inside Edge was founded by Randy Istre and Jay Donchetz in 1984, as Computer Sportsware, when they began providing pitch charting and reporting software to college baseball coaches and to the U.S. Olympic baseball team.

In 1993, the Milwaukee Brewers hired Inside Edge to be their advance scouting service. Currently, the Inside Edge pitch database contains over 4,000,000 charted pitches, and is growing by about 12 games a day.