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I do really really hope we start hearing chants like “Kill the software engineer!!” Or “The umpire needs new high speed multi-focal Gorilla Glass lenses!!”
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9/14 Yankems @ SOX 7:10PM ET
notin replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
No kidding. They were 113 and 107 mph. Let’s not pretend that’s a routine play for anyone… -
The only other interpretation is the author doesn’t think Cora is a good manager…
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It actually also shows how surprisingly good some umpires are at that part of their job…
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That’s actually NOT the analytics approach. In fact, that’s the approach of Old School GMs.
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No one worries if Henry has to pay a tax. Some folks just acknowledge he won’t always do it, and history has backed them up on this repeatedly…
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Noah Song, too…
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The problem is sure, you find and good through more trash than gems. But this is also how the Sox got Schreiber, who has been a legitimate gem. But more important the Sox have found dirt cheap serviceable pitchers like Kelly and Danish this way. Certainly no one gets worked up over these guys, but pulling them off the minimum wage scrap heap leaves an extra $5-10 mill in the budget to fill other holes…
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You replied while I was fixing them…
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Here’s the thing that keeps getting ignored or (intentionally?) omitted. The whole Robot Ump thing isn’t going to replace a single umpire. There will still be umpires on the bases making safe/out and fair/foul calls. There will still be an umpire at home plate making the same calls, but also relaying ball and strike calls he receives in his earpiece. Also, occasionally overriding them in the event a batter swings at a ball. Calling balls and strikes is insanely difficult. An umpire has to decide if a ball traveling 95mph touches any part of an invisible (to use Illinois Sox fan’s fans description) pentagonal prism of varying height. I’m ok giving them help. We all saw hand signs used for our entire lives. And even acknowledged that stealing sound was part of the game. But has the use of the transmission equipment to call pitches ruined the game for anyone? I don’t recall a single complaint, despite this being a much bigger change to the game than automating ball and strike calls…
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What about all the companies that made stop watches?
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Lol Familia is hardly the problem with the Sox; he’s been on the team for only a few weeks. Maybe you haven’t watched your team in the middle of the biggest collapse in MLB history?
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Also without looking anything up, the following pitchers threw perfect games: Felix Hernandez, Matt Cain, Roy Halladay, Philip Humber, Mark Buehrle, Dallas Braden, David Wells, David Cone, Dennis Martinez, Tom Browning, Mike Witt, Len Barker, Don Larsen, Sandy Koufax, Jim Bunning, Addie Joss, Cy Young. I think that’s more than half…
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The Joyce call had nothing to do with balls and strikes. So far MLB is ONLY talking about automated ball/strike calls. Do not lose sight of that. Standing on a slippery slope is not the same as being planted on firm ground…
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Having automated balls and strikes doesn’t mean removing all the umpires from the game and banishing them to the most outer of the Aleutian Islands with nothing but a bottle of Aquafina and some plastic ware. Just Angel Hernandez and CB Bucknor…
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Familia can go. Why not DFA Familia and Ort and call up German and Mata?
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The rules don’t make him a better player, but they might make him more useful. Really, todays Duran might be more valuable than yesterdays Duran. The question is - is he valuable enough yet?
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Trying to reset while being competitive will remain difficult for as long as Sale is on the roster and injured. A healthy Sale helps competitiveness with immense potential. But an injured Sale sucks up roughly 15% of the reset limit and contributes nothing else…
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I don’t think you save all of the top prospects, but you can certainly mitigate how many go. Certainly that’s what happens if Miami valets their players similar to BTV…
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So… among the rule changes for next year are the limiting of pickoff throws and larger bases (from 15 to 18 inches). To me, this means speed is back. Stolen bases. Good baserunning needed. Bloom has been hoarding speed prooescts. Hamilton, Ferguson, Rosier and Abreu are all base runners, among other things. He may have done so in anticipation of this rule change. (He didn’t hoard speed in Tampa.) Does all of this mean Duran is in the plans for 2023? Or does it at least make him better trade bait?
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That would certainly limit spending. Although I think the Sox could spend $110mill in AAV and still be under the limit. (Assuming Bogaerts opts out.)
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dgalehouse likes to run his little skits to tell us all he and only he knows how to enjoy baseball, and how stupid anyone is for doing it any other way. And in between those skits he likes to tell us how he never picks on anybody. So be on the lookout for that next…
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To be fair, his 128 OPS+ is brought down considerably by his age 20 to age 23 seasons. From age 24 on, his OPS+ was 135, which is higher than the previously unmentioned Rafael Palmeiro…
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Idaho Vandals. Best name in college sports…
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I heard the Android roboumps are suing over preferential treatment given to the iOS 16 umps…
