9 Awesome Baseball Apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch

The 2009 Baseball season starts tonight at 8pm EST. Being a life-long Cubs fan, I’m excited to get the season started. To help celebrate the beginning of the 2009 Major League Baseball Season, I’ve compiled 9 of the best Apps for tracking your team, your fantasy teams, playing trivia and even a few tools to help coaches of baseball and softball teams.

MLB.com At Bat 2009 (iPhone & iPod Touch) - 4.5 Stars based on 291 Ratings. $9.99 - Download @ iTunes or the Free - MLB.com At Bat Light Edition.

This App is very cool! It features pitch type, location and speed data from MLB.com Gameday, boxscores, play-by-play and video highlights. New for the 2009 version, this App features MLB.com Gameday Audio.

Fantasy Baseball Cheatsheet 09 (iPhone & iPod Touch) - 3.5 Stars based on 56 Ratings. $1.99 - Download @ iTunes

This App features 999 pre-ranked fantasy baseball players, projections and the ability to add players to your wishlist, watch specific teams, etc.

Sporting News Baseball (iPhone & iPod Touch) - 3.5 Stars out of 19 Ratings. Free - Download @ iTunes

Track your favorite team, scores, schedule, etc. This App also features a Fantasy Baseball team builder function and track statistics of players on your team.

D-Crypto Baseball (iPhone & iPod Touch) - 4.5 Stars out of 8 Ratings. $1.99 - Download @ iTunes.

This is a fun baseball trivia & word scramble game. Features over 150 Word Puzzles and Levels, Challenge Mode and Free Play Mode.

Y! Fan - Professional Edition (iPhone & iPod Touch) - 3 Stars out of 35 Ratings. $3.99 - Download @ iTunes or try the Y!Fan - Free Edition.

This App is a great tool to manage your Yahoo! Fantasy Sports teams. Gives you access to your NFL, MBL, NHL and NBA pools, provides support for Head-to-Head and Rotisserie, etc. Y!Fan gives functionality to manage rosters, track head-to-head matches, post and read messages, etc.

Baseball Pitch Count (iPhone & iPod Touch 2nd Gen) - 3.5 Stars based on 17 Ratings. $.99 - Download @ iTunes

Useful tool to track balls, strikes and pitch counts for up to 8 different pitchers. Could be pretty handy to track little league pitchers to track the health of pitchers.

Pointstreak K-forCE: Baseball Scoring (iPhone & iPod Touch) - 4.5 Stars out of 17 Ratings. $9.99 - Download @ iTunes.

Simple to use scoring App that works by tapping a base to score the type of hit. You also have the ability to identify winning and losing pitchers, touch to view pitch count, setup your starting lineup, make substitutions, and keep track of statistics.

Grand Slam Software (iPhone & iPod Touch) - 3 Stars out of 7 Ratings. $1.99 - Download @ iTunes.

This is a tool for coaches to evaluate players and keep track with those evaluations. Name them, jot down notes, choose left or right for piching and batting and rate their skill levels in various categories on a 5 star basis.

iBatStats - Batting Stats Tracker (iPhone & iPod Touch) - 4.5 Stars out of 3 Ratings. $4.99 - Download @ iTunes.

Keep batting stats for individual players, teams or entire leagues for baseball or softball. Calculates batting average, slugging percentage and onbase percentage.

I hope you enjoyed the list! Though I’m unable to track my Cubbies as much as I have years past, I think I’m going to upgrade to the MLB.com At Bat 2009 App. It’s got everything I’m looking for to keep me up to date on the Cubs and MLB news and notes. What’s your favorite team? Any great baseball Apps I missed?