Man what a mercurial year so far. The cold dark swings are unwatchable, turning into the light things get positively giddy. My enthusiasm is governed at this point.
In a B Nightingale article at the Strib, he mentions Carlos Correa's idea to help umpires out. Have them wear the pitch com device. That's simply brilliant, they can set up knowing what to expect.
"If they had a device where it said slider and they're anticipating the slider and they know where it has to start and land for it to be a strike, then we would get so many better calls," Correa said. "The fact that they're over there blind, it's really hard."