Kimmi
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No I'm not disputing that, but that's not all you said. This is Papi's final year, and with his offense gone, this team looks much more mortal offensively, even if you snag Bautista in the offseason. The time is now. To me, that sounds like you're saying if we don't go for it this year, we will have missed our chance for the next few years.
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Agreed. Acquiring Peavy sent a strong positive message to the team. Also, acquiring Peavy deepened the pen by allowing Workman to pitch in relief.
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I know that most of you wanted more pitching in the offseason. I was one who thought that it made sense to wait until midseason to see what our true needs were. We might not add an ace or a #2, but IMO, we don't need a top of the rotation starter. We need a solid, consistent #3/4 type pitcher. I think that can be done. Dombrowski will have no problem pulling the strings to acquire a pitcher. In fact, the thought of what he might do scares me. You say 'If Wright comes back to earth, look out...' . I say, 'If Buchholz returns to last year's form, look out...' .
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6/22 White Sox @ Boston
Kimmi replied to a700hitter's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
So true. I 'quit' baseball many times during a season - until the next game of course. The nice thing about baseball is that you have the chance of erasing the bad taste in your mouth the next day/night. -
A couple of thoughts that are related: 1. Should fans not be allowed to sit so close to the HR lines where fan interference could affect the game? A fan last night may have affected the outcome of the game. Isn't that similar to the umpire affecting the game with an 'unfair' call? Also, should we make all stadiums be dome stadiums so that, for instance, an outfielder does not 'unfairly' lose a ball in the sun? Is it fair that Wright's one bad outing this year was due to rain? 2. As far as the frustration with umpires goes, I think it would be extremely boring knowing that a ball/strike call is always going to be right. Part of the experience of being a fan is suffering the frustration of bad calls (I know there's plenty of frustration outside of umpire calls). The fan experience would become rather mundane if everything were always perfect.
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As I've said many times, I am okay with a 14% error rate if that's the best that humans can do. I think they can improve upon that holding umpires to a higher standard, but even if they can't, I'm good with it.
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They haven't done it because apparently it has become accepted. I'm not saying that making umpires stick to the true zone is going to improve borderline calls. But it will make the borderline calls surround the actual zone rather than their redefined zone, and umpires can be trained to know what the actual zone is. From this blog: But for our purposes the point is the obvious rounding of the zone at the four corners. That, as you can plainly see, is where a great many (probably most) of the under-recognition errors occur. That statement says to me that they are counted as errors.
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IMO, the true strike percentage is not so much error as it is what has become accepted as the strike zone. MLB has accepted it, so umpires will continue to call it. I am not arguing that bias in calls doesn't exist. If MLB enforced the actual zone and showed the umpires their data on missed calls, they would improve. They have improved since the advent of Pitch/FX.
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That's fair enough, but I am a traditionalist in that sense. I like the way the game is. Improving the strike/ball calls by replacing the human element with technology has no appeal to me. I suppose I have no real argument besides that. But as I've said many times, it's my preference.
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Back to the topic of the 'gray zone'. There is nothing in this blog that says that umpires are not penalized (ie are given leeway) for incorrect calls made in a gray zone. The study in fact states that most of the errors are borderline, and that the decline in error rate as you move away from the plate is "rapid". That said, I have seen some sites, not all, that will measure umpire accuracy according to what they term the 'called zone' rather than the true zone. In other words, a zone that has become 'accepted' by umpires, batters, and MLB. Is it okay that the interpretation of the zone has changed from the defined strike zone? Probably not, but MLB could fix that by easily enough by enforcing the actual strike zone.
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I have read the studies. I am the Queen of Studies. I know all about the biases. I was arguing years ago about how Mariano received 13% more strike calls than the average pitcher. Biases were not the point of my argument. The point of my argument was whether umpires were given leeway on their error percentage on calls made in a certain "gray zone", and whether most errors were borderline calls or not. And while on the topic of biases, this is a most excellent to time to point out again to the "I don't need stats, I know what my eyes see" crowd that this is precisely why you need stats. But I digress.
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If the umpires were to become unemployed, then that would be a concern too. What you state as 'just because' might seem like it to you, but it's not to me. I would find the game less enjoyable not having a human umpire. The idea of replacing a human with technology in a game that was designed to be played and officiated by humans is, to me, fundamentally wrong.
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Well, one of the differences is that I got absolutely no enjoyment out of watching auto assembly lines or accountants doing calculations.
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There is no way that I can believe that this is a .500 team. They will get it back together.
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That's the spirit Iortiz! Believe!
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I have been wondering this myself. Not that I think Farrell was wrong to bring Koji into the game last night, but in general, I'm wondering why we don't see more of Ross.
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I always thought he got a bum rap. Personally, I like that type of fire and competitiveness in my starting pitchers.
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6/22 White Sox @ Boston
Kimmi replied to a700hitter's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
I disagree that this is not a good team. This is a good team that is playing poorly right now. That's not to say that we don't have any holes, but it's still a good team. -
6/22 White Sox @ Boston
Kimmi replied to a700hitter's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
This has been an extremely frustrating and heartbreaking series. It's the kind that keeps me awake and night and makes me want to quit baseball. Why do I put myself through this? -
Papi needs to go to the All Star Game, for both himself and the fans, since it's his last season. However, with the way his feet are hurting, he also really needs to have that time off. While many of our players are deserving, I honestly prefer if they stayed home.
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I don't think it's the same thing. That said, it could be that 30 years down the road, I will not be able to imagine that I was at one point against robot umpires.
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http://mlb.mlb.com/shared/components/gameday/v4/images/about/hotcoldzone.jpg
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The definition from the MLB site about Pitch/FX used in MLB Gameday says it's a ball zone. I posted that definition to you. And it's not literally gray. The color varies depending on the batter hot zones.
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I'm not picketing against anything. It's just something I prefer. I would not stop watching baseball if they automated the strike zone, just like I did not stop watching when they instituted instant replay, which I was against. Manufacturing automobiles and entering numbers into an Excel spreadsheet are not tasks that rely on human interaction. The sport of baseball does.
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That is not a leeway zone. It is a ball zone. Now there is a "called zone" that Brooks uses, but that is not it.
