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  1. mvp 78
    So the MLB umpires we watch and model on aren’t so damn bad after all — or so I say. It was funny. What else would you expect from an umpiring blog?
  2. mvp 78
    Do you want me to read the study too? Or just the blog post?
  3. mvp 78
    My favorite part so far "The data covers 4,914 games, 313,774 at-bats, and 756,848 pitches (non-swinging pitches only). That’s over three-quarters of a million pitches.
  4. mvp 78
    Games would be quicker. Fans win. Players would have a better idea at when to swing as there isn't an amoeba blob of a zone to contend with. Players win. Umps would be under less scrutiny. Umps win. This conversation would die. We all win.
  5. mvp 78
    ERod is just a pitch tipping situation. We just have to wait for good Clay to come around. Easy peasy!
  6. mvp 78
    So having a properly called strike zone wouldn't be more productive?
  7. mvp 78
    I'm convinced. Bring in Jake Peavy and I'll prepay for the playoff tickets.
  8. mvp 78
    White Soz bro. Title bro. Bro.
  9. mvp 78
    If PED's helped the umps, I'm all for it. We're talking about umpiring not player performance. The umpires are not athletes. They are there just to do a job, the same as an auto worker or accountant.
  10. mvp 78
    99 ERA+, .9 WAR... Yuck. Those guys grown on trees. I said "decent" not "markedly average."
  11. mvp 78
    Stating otherwise? Idk. It sounds awfully a lot like you think Clay is better than back of the rotation material. To me, he's even a poor option for a 5th starter.
  12. mvp 78
    How is it not the same thing? The auto industry went from humans on an assembly line to robots monitored by humans. Accountants went from writing out all their work and doing the calculations themselves to data entry in a spreadsheet.
  13. mvp 78
    Who was the last decent starting pitcher the Sox obtained midyear? Mike Boddicker?
  14. mvp 78
    I will often change the channel when they go to a replay. I think the replay system is a big blunder. Manufacturing automobiles and entering numbers into an Excel spreadsheet are not tasks that rely on human interaction. The sport of baseball does. At one point they were, which was my point.
  15. mvp 78
    Most of us wanted starting pitching in the offseason too. Some of us told the rest of us to just be patient. I don't believe we will get a substantial addition to the rotation during the season. This team has spent the past few years twiddling its thumbs while the obvious need was for better starting pitching. They dumped Lackey for nothing. They lowballed Lester. They could have paid Scherzer, but ignored one of the best pitchers in the game when he was available. I have no confidence that the rotation will be fixed this year. The offense is good enough to be WC contenders, but the pitching is very suspect. If Wright comes back to earth, look out...
  16. mvp 78
    How is a batter supposed to know what to swing at when umps can be all over the place? Isn't that the crux of the issue? Doesn't it make the most sense to have a standardized strike zone? And god forbid if a player or manager complains about an ump closing his eyes during a pitch...
  17. mvp 78
    IF the only errors made were in the gray zone, I'd never complain. The fact that there are erroneous calls made like that Papi K is just embarrassing.
  18. mvp 78
    Based Speier: https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/redsox/2016/05/09/can-computers-call-better-than-umps/NALM25cSoZB8KLevTSrUPN/story.html The technology isn’t perfect. PITCHf/x has a margin of error of up to about an inch — though as Byrnes notes, that pales in comparison to a call that misses by nearly six times that amount. Byrnes suggests that while umpires will be skeptical of potential job loss from a change, crews could be expanded not just to preserve a plate umpire responsible for all calls not related to the strike zone, but also a fifth member who would work with a technician on the strike zone and also provide an on-site arbiter of other plays subject to replay. Good news if you keep ranting that baseball's beauty is in it's imperfection. PITCHf/x still has a margin of error of an inch!!! Check mate anti-robot movement!
  19. mvp 78
    And they can all be designed to look like Grady Sizemore so that VA can be happy with it.
  20. mvp 78
    So I guess you are picketing against auto manufacturers then? As an accountant, should I no longer use Excel and only do all my calculations by hand? People still need to be employed to actually run the system and act as a fail safe.
  21. mvp 78
    Is the technology even reliable?!?!? http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14599589/re-imagining-baseball-robot-umpires-home-plate MLB has had the ability to implement this for years now. One of the common arguments against automatic balls and strikes is that we still can't count on the technology, which is a rather strange argument. We have planes that make thousands of imperceptible course directions accurately and without human contact. We have machines that fabricate transistors for CPUs so small that they are only a few atoms wide. We have mapped out the human genome, the very building blocks of our existence. Yet somehow, in baseball, identifying where a white sphere crosses a white pentagon a couple of feet away is some monumental technological challenge? Poppycock.
  22. mvp 78
    IF there was only public outcry on the matter... http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/just-a-bit-outside/story/strike-zone-umpires-automation-automatic-computer-hal-questec-091214 My first choice would be to automate the strike zone – again, assuming that it’s actually a practical thing – but only with a new strike zone, subject to adjustment in future seasons as data warrants. My second choice would be to leave things alone, and just wait for that inevitable tipping point. And my third choice is just to automate the strike zone without any real thought about those good ol unintended consequences.
  23. mvp 78
    http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-automated-strike-zone-20150810-story.html The games progressed smoothly and the technology was well-received — even by the umpires. "Since we found out more about it — how it's going to work, where it's going to work — I've had more positive feedback than I have negative," Dean Poteet, who worked behind home plate in one of the games, told the Associated Press. Poteet was still busy even without making judgments on balls and strikes. He was responsible for fair or foul calls on balls in the infield, watched for balks, and made safe or out calls on plays at the plate.
  24. mvp 78
    Barely improving.
  25. mvp 78
    I think 11 smiley options are perfectly cromulent. There used to be more here (Papi specific emojis), but they tend to get overused.
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