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Days like this, when I am reminded that 90%+ of pro athletes are likely Trumpers, bum me out. I know I should be sophisticated enough to know such things and still enjoy the game, but I admit it's tough for me.
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It’s getting closer.

 

Tested already in the independent Atlantic League and the MLB-run Arizona Fall League, the automated strike zone is slated to arrive in Minor League Baseball in some capacity in 2020.

 

Commissioner Rob Manfred told MLB Network last week that the technology used for the automated strike zone was due for a large upgrade this winter, and that it would make its way into standard minor-league play next year.

 

“Here’s our thinking on the automated strike zone: The technology exists. We have the technology,” Manfred said on MLB Now with Brian Kenny. “We’re actually going through a big upgrade of that piece of our technology during this offseason. I think we need to be ready to use an automated strike zone when the time is right. That’s why we experimented in the Atlantic League. It’s why we went to the Arizona Fall League. It’s why we’re using it in Minor League Baseball next year, in some ballparks at least.

 

Naturally, there was some skepticism about the Atlantic League implementation during the 2019 season.

 

“We thought the Atlantic League was a really positive experience,” Manfred said. “Positive in the sense that it worked well a very, very large percentage of the time. When it didn’t work, they were identifiable problems with the system, things that we can work on. I think a major kind of breakthrough with the Atlantic League deployment was the idea that you put an earpiece in the umpires and you don’t change the appearance of the game from the fan’s perspective. He’s getting the call in that earpiece, but it looks the same from the fan perspective. I think that’s important. And it does give you that human backup.

 

“You know, technology — no matter how good it is, every once in a while, right, you’re going to have a problem. We’re positive on the experiment and we’re going to keep working on it.”

 

It is indeed getting closer to becoming a reality.

 

MLB will keep tinkering with the technology and the parameters of the strike zone. The technology isn't ready for implementation at the big league level, but ABS is going to happen in a few years. They need to perfect the technology to the point that players and pitchers find it superior to human umps, and some players were complaining in the AFL. I'm thinking the Player's Union will agree to it eventually, but not in the upcoming CBA discussions (financial issues and more important stuff to figure out). Probably not till the next next CBA so I'm thinking 2027 is the first year where roboumps finally happen.

 

Then we won't have to talk about stupid pitch framing metrics and setup issues with catchers and dumb stuff like that. No expansion of the strike zone on 3-0 counts and contraction of the strike zone on 0-2 counts. Even the game itself should move at a faster pace with an automated strike zone.

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Feel bad the kid lost the ability to play HS sports and the residual affects on his life, but him, his dad and their lawyers should be sent to Gitmo for this nonsense lawsuit. Bunch of fucks.

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No cubs rexeived any MVP votes but Kevin Pillar got one (!!!?!!!). When was the last year no Cub received a vote for any award because that's what happened this year. 2013?

Rizzo won the Gold Glove this year. But yeah not great.

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Fun fact:

 

Number of defensive shifts against left-handed batters (on balls in play) across the entire season:

 

2011 - 85

2019 - 18,900

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Really good article on taking a more proactive and scientific approach to player rest in the Athletic:

 

https://theathletic.com/1372051/2019/11/15/sarris-could-we-see-more-load-management-in-baseball-what-the-sport-might-learn-from-the-nba/

 

To move past the idea of pitch counts and innings pitched, teams have used things like the Motus sleeve to directly measure stress on the elbow during training and game conditions. Along with Sonne, Motus has shown how an understanding of that relationship can lead to better best practices — sometimes as simple as breathing, as this passage from Motus’ site on Fatigue Units (FU) shows.

 

A professional pitcher competing in the Arizona Fall League and active Motus/WASP client (who asked for anonymity), self-modified his approach to warmups and lowered his peak pregame FU’s by almost 35%. “I tried to take a breath and count to five between each warmup throw and it really slowed me down. I took my time and I wasn’t exhausted at all. It felt really efficient,” he said.

 

But of course, you can take this further. Once you’ve put your own pitchers into Motus sleeves for an extended period of time — say, spring training — and understand their personal relationship between stress, training, game play, and fatigue, then you have a model for that player. And then you can sit them without seeing any observed signs of fatigue. In other words, load management.

 

Though baseball’s version has been focused on pitching, this sort of model relating training and game day and fatigue is absolutely coming to the position player side of things. Sources confirm that teams are revamping their performance and medical groups and beginning to empower them to model and then implement these sorts of rest days, and that’ll mean more healthy scratches from your favorite hitters. That might not go over amazingly with everyone.

 

Guessing that, in addition to their obvious failures the last 2-3 years, this is why the medical staff was just turned over.

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