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  1. jad
    Is it unseemly to ask why the f. Ottavino is in a RS uniform?
  2. jad
    Statements such as "studies have shown" or "experts say" are not data. If they don't cite and describe the study (or 'experts'), they don't even rise to the level of 'secondary sourced anecdote.' There has only been one study cited here, I think. And it can be critiqued if anyone is so inclined. Otherwise, it's just "Back in aught-6, I was talking to my cousin, who told me of a guy who ..."
  3. jad
    Injuries every day? You have that in EVERY sport. The one piece of evidence (non-anecdotal) offered above suggests that there is no increase in injury for pitchers related to the pitch clock. That evidence may or may not be valid, but it's the only thing offered except pure speculation and the whining of individual pitchers.
  4. jad
    Clearly it's the fault of the pitch clock, which doesn't allow them to dig in. As in golf (or at least for the group in front of me), every hitter should be allowed time between pitches to check for wind, calculate the distance to a particular part of the wall, consult his scorecard notes, step out due to crowd noise, and mock-bounce the bat eight times off the plate.
  5. jad
    Good article. Also, I wouldn't care if there were a rise in injurieies. I don't want to sit through a 5 hour game or wait for Josh Beckett to walk around the mound between pitches like my dog determining which leg to raise on a fence post, just bec. a pitcher (or his mom) is worried about Tommy John.
  6. jad
    I'm with OR-- Brock Holt.
  7. jad
    Numbers don't lie: Toro with a 5.000 OPS. DFA Devers and Mayer
  8. jad
    Aren't there rules against putting guys on the 60-day IL just to open up a spot on the 40-man roster?
  9. jad
    Incredible discipline and control of strike zone. I suspect the new ABS has something to do with it,
  10. jad
    But he is also ERROR-FREE! with no strikeouts, so his ei0qojo9ehgWAR must be off the charts.
  11. jad
    Does any position player routinely a grip like that? I guess so? (I would have said Pedey, but I in fact have no idea.)
  12. jad
    For a primer on hustle, check out Hamilton's caught stealing. https://www.espn.co.uk/video/clip?id=44012684
  13. jad
    I assume t-storms took the game out today?
  14. jad
    Ah yes,, another bad-ass, tough guy business owner. (Sorry about all that minimum wage, no-child-labor, 40-hr-workweek b.s., and all those inconvenient safety regulations.)
  15. jad
    I TOTALLY DISAGREE!!!!! What is wrong with you?????
  16. jad
    Now we're getting somewhere. Who says rational discussion cannot lead to a consensus?
  17. jad
    But again, why bother perfecting or tweaking an unnecessary 'challenge' system when there is absolutely no need for such a system whatsover? you still have the live ump there for tip balls, enforcing time etc. or to serve as a check (e.g., bounced balls that end up in the zone). Just turn the ABS on. Why they didn't do this in the minors is beyond me instead of experimenting with a half-measure?
  18. jad
    But unless you review ALL calls, how do you protect this hypothetical kid's psyche? He'll never know what the right call would be unless he challenges. Again, what I'm looking for is the argument showing why they should NOT use ABS throughout. What is the advantage of having a live ump get, say, 80-90% of the calls right, adding another half dozen on challenge, when you could easily get 100% of the calls right? That's the argument I want to see someone to try to advance.
  19. jad
    But the point is not to 'hold umps accountable' (i.e., punish umpires); that will not make the calls better. The point is to get the RIGHT calls, and the way to do that is to use ABS. I really cannot see ANY reasonable argument against it. (Unless, as noted above, fans enjoy seeing people punished; same fans, I suppose, who would LOVE to see, say, Devers ' held accountable' by being benched). Personally, I'd rather see the correct b/st calls made; I have no interest in the idiotic faux-drama of using challenges.
  20. jad
    Ah, I see I wasn't clear. I meant " use ABS all the time" (no challenges), not allow unlimited challenges. (I actually hate any replay system; make the call--by humans or in this case automatically--and play the game. I realize with today's betting establishment, this is a pipe dream.)
  21. jad
    Disagree. It's WAY worse than nothing. Those 'challenges' are a huge waste of time. If you are going to use the automatic system for challenges, USE IT ALL THE TIME. Why introduce mock drama (should he risk using the challenge now?...). Also, MLB judges umpires on the way they conform to the electronic strike zone. So what's the point of not using it all the time? Tennis improved DRAMATICALLY with automatic line calls.
  22. jad
    You really think the union would go along with this? You really do? Guy doesn't want to play a certain position? we bench him without pay. We don't like a guy's attitude? Bench him without pay. Guy doesn't get in perfect shape? Bench him without pay. Even the cowardly-ass unions I've been paart of (and you too, I imagine), would not accept that . Actually, I'm pretty sure the ONLY place such idiotic discussions are taking plaace are on sports boards and in some minor-reporter's head.
  23. jad
    Just release him, along with Devers and Bregman who between them didn't manage aas much as a foul ball. And what's with Cora? Still no wins against a major league team???? Come on!!
  24. jad
    I wonder about the history of American journalism, but I believe in this case 'back in the day' would refer largely to the tight-assed professional journalism of the 20th c (conditioned both by two wars ... or three or four ... and the arch conservatism of the 50s and early 60s). Anyone have a sense of this history? Journalism was pretty salacious in early America I think.
  25. jad
    If anyone knows who won, let me know!
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