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  1. h2oface
    Can someone tell me when these excessive shifts actually worked instead of created hits this year?
  2. h2oface
    Encouraging that Harper didn't add to his excessive (5 so far is it?) inherited runners scored total.
  3. h2oface
    Buxton is really being consistent. No complaint... but he is hitting it harder than Mauer Power this year - just short of going out. I like the doubles tons..... but hopefully the extra 20 pounds and launch angle starts putting those doubles out of the park.
  4. h2oface
    I wish there was more Scooping going on........
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    Beat me to it. Absolutely. It doesn't matter. A pitch the crosses the plate and passes through any part of the strike zone is a strike, no matter how much or how long it was in the zone, and regardless of where the catcher wanted the pitcher to throw it, or were the catcher had to move his glove to catch it. If the ball goes in the basket...... no matter how it got heaved up there...... it counts. Same thing.
  7. h2oface
    Vasquez. 2 walks and a hit and an earned run and a K. Looks like he is still trying to find the plate after the debacle in the show. Rochester seems to have the same kind of pen as the Twins. I am a bit surprised at Lewis' start. Really thought he would murder High A in a return to the same level. Wasn't it Littell that was something like 19-1 on the year in A+ and AA when we got him in 2017? Our system seems to not be so good for him, or something.
  8. h2oface
    I guess I just don't understand what you mean by a "Statcast zone". There is one zone by rule. Either umpires call it to the best of their guessing, or the tech is set to measure it, and it could be used to call it as well, to the very same parameters. As always. So if you mean that the demonstration you speak of was robo called, and you call that the "Statcast zone", which is just the strike zone as we know it called by machines during the game......... I fail to see how nobody has ever had "Statcast strikes", which would be virtually pitches in the same locations in the same zone they have always navigated, and umpires have been calling accurately enough, as you say, with little variation. Is that what you mean?
  9. h2oface
    Thank you! Amen. I don't get the "Statcast Zone" adjustment, anyway. THAT is what the zone is supposed to be...... BY RULE! Why would that be an adjustment?
  10. h2oface
    at least he gets to start with a 1.95 hitter....
  11. h2oface
    The excitement when the 9.39 relief comes in.
  12. h2oface
    4 soft pitches up in the zone. or even too high for the zone... talk about a hanging curve.
  13. h2oface
    That single should have been enough to get out of the dugout and get a new pitcher to worry about.
  14. h2oface
    Adjusting? Seriously? Like batters and pitchers don't have to adjust daily to a new made up or interpretation of the actual strike zone by each individual umpire? The strike zone that is the same if tech is used, but only an interpretation that varies if not? And then, more often than not, even adjust to that changing during the game as the umpires become inconsistent with their personal made up strike zone. You think it would be harder to adjust once and then it is the same daily, weekly, yearly and pitcher to pitcher? I sure don't. Again...... you keep throwing out your opinions (which you are welcome to keep without accepting new evidence in the future, even), but what are you basing that on? You are determining whether it was a right or wrong call by using pitch f/x or statcast or some tech! You don't get to have it both ways, do you? If that is your standard for the basis of your studies.... it is the correctness czar. Now it seems you are just talking in circles. None of this discussion is about telling someone how to enjoy the game. It is a discussion on how to get the rules it is played with, and the spirit of the rule, correct as often as possible in as little time as possible and not make mistakes or accept mistakes that don't have to be made if there is a better tool to implement them.
  15. h2oface
    So what? They did do it that time. Shouldn't it be properly rewarded? Isn't that what the game is all about anyway. They certainly meant to throw it there or not swing because of their talent and intuition. And.... some are really very good at it. Many better than the umpire.
  16. h2oface
    Cron is sooooooooooooo sssssssllllllloooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Maybe he should be called tortuga.
  17. h2oface
    You love your microns! 1 millionth of a meter. That would be sooooo cool to have something instantaneous that accurate. This fan is always disturbed by the close call being wrong. That is were the most talent is displayed from a hitter or a pitcher, and they are being robbed. The perfectly thrown pitch location, or the perfect take. They bother me the most. The obvious ones...... it just shows how horrible the system that continues to be used is, and the tragedy of that. But the close ones really rob the players the most. And there are way more of them being called wrong than the obvious ones.
  18. h2oface
    Yup. Progress. Just as a washed up star gets replaced, so will the plate umpire, or at least some of his duties. The washed up star (and the not stars) won't like it, and will often hold on and try to keep playing, even so far as to play minor league ball at 35. Just as we transitioned from no electricity to electricity, and the torch makers and the candle makers became not needed, so will the plate umpire become an announcer. He still gets to call plays at the plate and such. They could even develop unique styles of announcing the calls that are "entertaining" for those that like to be entertained by umpires. But the game was never, and never will be, about the umpires. They are just an administrator of the rules, and too many times not administering them properly, even if it is their best attempt to, especially the most basic part of the game, correct calling of balls and strikes. I have no doubt the umpires and their union won't like it. Who does like being phased out for a better option? I have more than once read that many/most don't even do the work to try to get better and review the calls. I know I would if I was umpiring. I would do it between innings even to see how I was doing that game, during the game. But people surely don't like being replaced. But it will happen. Unfortunately, I feel, later than sooner (as it is already 10 years overdue in my opinion), but it will happen.
  19. h2oface
    I would think it would be just as easy to feed it to a light in the mask, and only the umpire sees it.
  20. h2oface
    I guess i see the players being the human element, and the administration of the rules inhuman. I see the umpire as not part of the game. A human used to be the only way to do it. They can still stand there and do their dance of calling the right call that is instantaneously fed to them. Now we have better options. It will showcase the humans that play the game more properly, and hence be more entertaining, and the game more human. I don't really find all the arguments about the wrong call entertaining, but a waste of time. Humans arguing like children, stomping on the ground, throwing dirt, kicking bases, throwing bases & hats, fake fighting....... not what I come to the game for. I don't come to sports for "entertainment", as if that is just what I want.... to be entertained. I like the stress of competition, and watching people compete. Sometimes it is entertaining. Many times not. But for me, very interesting and worthy of my time. People compete, always have, and always will, regardless of whether someone is watching.
  21. h2oface
    I again submit that the tech be used to do the act of calling them then..... instead of trying to make an admitted inferior option closer, but still not as good as the better option. If the tech is the standard to help the humans get better, but never as good as.... then it is our best option, we all know it, and the change is overdue.
  22. h2oface
    In the end, the real time decisions can get to the point where there is no need for any delay because we are not needed to correct the wrong call, and review it. Players can make mistakes. Umpiring by humans was the only option. Was. We have better now. Let the players make the mistakes, and the rules be inforced without. At least balls and strikes. Plays on the field might need some delays. At least it will be more true to the spirit of the game. I don't recall anywhere in the rules a disclaimer that umpiring errors will be acceptable and part of the game.
  23. h2oface
    I did some umpiring myself. I might be the rare former umpire that does not like umpires and never liked the guessing, and admits that is all I was ever doing. My best guess. I hate wrong calls. I welcome all inovations that take it out of the umpires guessing and into reality. Just like I like the touch pad to determine who won the swimming race. I like it true and right, and not just a best guess.
  24. h2oface
    Cron should be the tortoise. Man is he slow.
  25. h2oface
    Hildenberger and Harper sitting at o.oo ERA still, yet they have together let in 10 runs after they took the mound.
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