New ABS system

[Dave Borton]

Goes into effect this year. I got a chuckle out of Derek Shelton's idea on it, courtesy of the Strip.

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"“My early thought — I don't know if I should say this — I don't think the pitchers should ever challenge,” Twins manager Derek Shelton said at the MLB winter meetings last month. “Pitchers think everything is a strike.”

[jorgenswest]

In general based on AAA data that is true. I am sure there are done pitchers that will be very good at it as well as catchers that do poorly. It will be very valuable to have a catcher that has an elite ability to identify a strike from a called ball,

[Linus]

Funderburk would go through all the challenges in a half inning - guy thinks everything is a strike, perhaps because he doesn’t know what they look like 😀. Jeffers seemed good at it last spring.