Bellhorn04
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Sometimes it takes a change in ownership to really turn a franchise around...
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What about Red Sox players who were looking at catcher's signs in the video room in 2018? Think they got off easy too?
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No, I was talking about e-passes.
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It was not a simple matter, though, because the directives apparently came from the top. Everybody was following orders, Cora included. He made for a convenient sacrificial lamb. When the Red Sox got penalized, the poor guy who operated the video was the only one suspended. As if it was all his idea or something. What a joke that was.
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With robo umps, testing and troubleshooting at the lower levels would take care of the learning curve.
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As a customer I got one right away and have never had any issues with them.
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Right, another quick example. There are plenty.
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This is about how to get balls called strikes by fooling the umpire. So you've got a hitter at the plate who has a great eye-think J. D. Drew. He lets a pitch go because he knows it's 3 inches outside. But the ump, who's been fooled, calls it a strike. Yay! What about the hitter whose skill of having a great eye for the plate is cheated? Why does he get the short end of the stick?
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Some technological advances are immediately noticed as big improvements. Like e-passes for bridges and other tolls, for example.
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I predict that once this goes into effect most people are going to like it. It'll speed things up, it'll take away the distraction of checking the ump's calls. It won't disrupt the playing of the game at all. In exchange for a faster, fairer game, all you can lose is whatever kick it was you got out of bad calls.
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Wow, does this mean he doesn't rely solely on FanGraphs?
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People complained about bad balls and strikes calls long before the rectangle came along. The rectangle simply made the errors easier to see.
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Agreed. It didn't bother me that much because we had our shot. Whichever team won 2 of 3 in that series won the division.
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It's also worth noting the Tigers won the first 2 games of that series, which made the last one meaningless.
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We watch the games to see the players perform. We don't watch to see the umps perform. Ideally, game officials are not noticed. But with balls and strikes calls, umps get noticed a lot.
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I don't care much about Taylor, but he's definitely been better than average. 3.1 fWAR this year.
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Defensive WAR for catchers has to be one of the most suspect numbers, though. I expect Bloom has his own numbers, and maybe even some anecdotal evidence, he will use to make the decision on Vazquez.
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Yes, this does make sense.
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And we wouldn't even notice it. We wouldn't have to worry about and fixate on the accuracy of ball/strike calls any more, and we could focus on more interesting aspects of the game.
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With what happened to the Red Sox in 2019, and with what happened to Scherzer this year, managers might shy away from this strategy in future.
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Oblique humor plays badly on the internet.
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As we've said here numerous times, it's a big problem with those stats. "Let-go's" isn't bad, though.
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Dissenters: Kimmi dgalehouse Elktonnick Maxbialystock
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Dodgers lost Kershaw, and Muncy, and then J. Turner.
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Yeah, gone are the days when you thought the goal was to knock out the starter early so you could get into the crappy part of their bullpen.
