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  1. DJL44
    It's completely relevant. If you just want the pitcher to hit a target, that's cricket, not baseball. The oval shaped strike zone called by umpires substitutes less hittable pitches in the corners for more hittable pitches over the plate. They're mentally substituting the "rule book strike zone" with "was the pitch hittable". The other problem your proposed rule has is it makes major league baseball a very different game than amateur baseball. Amateur baseball will never have an automated strike zone and will have to continue with the rule as written today. It will be even more difficult to figure out which 16 year old from Venezuela will be the best hitter in the majors. It also is a huge break with the past - players who are currently all-stars with huge contracts would become overnight washouts. If they make the strike zone a fixed zone I probably stop watching major league baseball.
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    I'm sure they could trade Sabato and Cavaco for someone about as good as AJ Alexy.
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    This is flat out wrong. Check 2022 Split G Batting 1st 92 Batting 2nd 18 Batting 3rd 11 Batting 4th 2 Batting 5th 9 Batting 6th 5 Batting 7th 0 Batting 8th 1 Batting 9th 6 Top of the order 121 times out of 129 games started. When he batted "bottom of the order" he was usually pinch hitting.
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    A strike - at the root of the rule- is a hittable pitch. A ball is an unhittable pitch. What is or isn't a hittable pitch changes based on the height of the athlete. The original rule for a strike (before 1870) A ball struck at and missed by the Batsman without its touching his bat. A ball legally delivered by the Pitcher and with in the legitimate reach of the bat not swung at by the Batsman. You want to up-end the second part of the rule and allow for strikes that are not "within the legitimate reach of the bat". Baseball History: 19th Century Baseball: The Rules: History of the Strike (19cbaseball.com)
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    It does. You don't have to be 270 pounds to play baseball like you do if you want to play football. You don't have to be 7 feet tall like you do to play basketball. The diversity of athletes that can play the sport is part of what makes it fun and part of what makes it accessible for younger athletes. I like that Altuve and Judge can both be good in different ways. The strike zone adapts to the athlete, not the other way around.
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    And that's why baseball is better than those other sports.
  7. DJL44
    You think Jose Altuve's strike zone should go to his chin? People's knees set the bottom of the zone (and that is surprisingly consistent) but shoulder height is very different between Altuve and Aaron Judge. If you make Altuve's zone the size of Judge's then he can't play MLB anymore; pitchers will throw him nothing but 96 MPH fastballs at eye level. If you make Judge's zone the size of Altuve's he's going to have a big advantage since you'll never be able to throw him a high strike. The zone is knees to armpits because it is proportional to the players' reach with their arms. A fixed strike zone will select for taller baseball players. Goodbye Luis Arraez, hope you enjoyed his career.
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    If it's always been 'wrong', then it really hasn't been wrong at all. It's how the game has been played. I'm saying the description of the strike zone in the rule book could be considered what's actually wrong. It doesn't describe how the game has been played for 150 years. We have never had a rectangular strike zone, it's always been an oval. Changing to a rectangular strike zone will likely have unintended consequences.
  9. DJL44
    Except human umpires have been going "against the rules" for 150 years. The strike zone has always been rounded off at the corners. Calling the rule book zone exactly would be a huge change. It's the difference between de jure and de facto.
  10. DJL44
    Other than the excessive commercials I usually enjoy watching the All Star Game. Guess I'm not a real fan.
  11. DJL44
    The whole point of fan voting is to get fans interested in watching the All-Star game. I guess we could have robots pick the team and then get a whole bunch of robots to watch it. Robots don't buy a lot of shaving cream so advertisers may be disappointed.
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    It is worth debating whether we actually want automated umpires to call the rule book strike zone. Human umpires naturally round off the corners. Robo umps won't do that. Those pitches at the corners are less hittable than the pitches low and over the plate that human umpires typically call strikes. This will give pitchers an advantage and we can expect strikeouts to increase with a robo-zone.
  13. DJL44
    Hard to get fleeced when you don't give up much. Taylor Rogers was bad last season.
  14. DJL44
    Thanks for the Correa article. I haven't heard much about him this offseason.
  15. DJL44
    Highest dollar long-term deal Falvey has ever given a pitcher
  16. DJL44
    Come on. We all know that guy is more into pro pickleball than he is into baseball.
  17. DJL44
    Maeda to the bullpen. He's coming off injury.
  18. DJL44
    That's more like changing the subject than disagreeing. I think they could find a replacement for Arraez easier than they can find a pitcher as good as Pablo Lopez. That has nothing to do with whether Lopez is the right pitcher to try to obtain. He is the name floated most often and I think he's the easiest to get.
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    Arraez for Lopez is a steal for the Twins. The Twins will have a much easier time finding a 1B who can replace Arraez than a P as good as Lopez.
  20. DJL44
    This is Correa's team now, he's the face of the franchise for the 2020s just like Mauer was in the 2000s. If they don't make the playoffs in 2023 I expect to see a coaching change.
  21. DJL44
    Unless they are brain dead they will acquire two pitchers for the roster to take Canterino and Paddack's spots.
  22. DJL44
    I agree, they really need to quit inducting players like Harold Baines, Jim Kaat, Tony Oliva and Lee Smith.
  23. DJL44
    "Didn't take steroids" shouldn't be impressive enough to get a Hall of Fame vote. That's like "Didn't swear at his dog".
  24. DJL44
    dWAR is useless for almost everything. Use RField to figure out how good a player was versus their positional average.
  25. DJL44
    I think Correa is going to have a chip on his shoulder for a while. Prove them all wrong, Carlos.
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