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CubinNY

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Never mind Mets still the Mets... he misunderstood it was actually Wilpon’s idea not Manfred

Did you see what the Mets and Marlins just did?

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Jake did not have a nice no hitter anniversary.

 

August 30, 2015 - 9IP, 0H, 0R, 1BB, 12K

August 30, 2020 - 1 1/3 IP, 6H, 7ER, 3BB, 0K - fewest pitches thrown in a start in his career (46)

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Jake did not have a nice no hitter anniversary.

 

August 30, 2015 - 9IP, 0H, 0R, 1BB, 12K

August 30, 2020 - 1 1/3 IP, 6H, 7ER, 3BB, 0K - fewest pitches thrown in a start in his career (46)

I’m so glad we didn’t sign him

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Just read this blurb from Yahoo fantasy:

The 26-year-old continues to swing a hot stick after his dreadful July, and that homer -- his fourth of the season -- now has him slashing .299/.342/.523 in 107 at-bats. Don't forget that Candelario was once among the top infield prospects in baseball. He's shown why for most of this truncated season.

 

...that's not quite how I remember it. Playing fast with words like "among" and "top."

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Just read this blurb from Yahoo fantasy:
The 26-year-old continues to swing a hot stick after his dreadful July, and that homer -- his fourth of the season -- now has him slashing .299/.342/.523 in 107 at-bats. Don't forget that Candelario was once among the top infield prospects in baseball. He's shown why for most of this truncated season.

 

...that's not quite how I remember it. Playing fast with words like "among" and "top."

 

Well, he did play with KB and Javy in the minors, right? So he was kinda top prospecr adjacent?

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This is hilarious lol

 

I hate Steve Stone so much... You know Jim Deshaies would know what Pokemon/Pikachu is. Also, for those unaware/older crowd here, you're super horsefeathering annoying if you're a Ness main in Smash. Just spamming horsefeathering PK thunder and PK fire all day.

 

 

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Good article on Hawk-Eye tech:

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Yes, you already know where this is going for baseball. Robo-umps are coming to call balls and strikes. I don’t know when. But they’re coming soon.

 

Look: The ball-strike thing in baseball is a problem. It’s a problem because every ball and strike call is really important.

 

On a 2-1 count this year, batters hit .336 and slug .575.

 

On a 1-2 count this year, batters hit .157 and slug .257.

 

The difference between those two counts is a single pitch, maybe one around the corner, that an umpire now calls a ball or a strike.

 

On a 3-1 count this year, batters hit .358 and slug .726.

 

On a 2-2 count this year, batters hit .170 and slug .292.

Same thing, one pitch is the difference. This is true across the count landscape. Every pitch matters. We’ve known that for a long time. And ever since four balls equaled a walk and three strikes a strikeout, umpires have crouched behind home plate making those crucial calls. For most of those years, that was baseball’s best chance to get the calls right, just like there was a time when a horse was the fastest way to get from place to place.

 

2. I’ve written this before in passing: Pitch framing — which has become ubiquitous over the last few years — exposes the entire home-plate umpiring system. Let’s face it, catchers frame pitches for two purposes. One is that framing helps ensure umpires don’t miss close strike calls. The other is to try and trick umpires into calling a ball a strike. Both reasons mock the idea that home-plate umpires are up to the challenge of calling pitches in this modern time where everyone throws 98 mph with sliders that defy gravity.

 

Basically, either umpires need a catcher’s help to make the right call or they can be manipulated into making the wrong call. Neither one of those is good.

 

I can't really discuss the accuracy of Hawk-Eye in professional tennis because it always recreates a 3D rendering of the line call and where it "says" the ball bounced, but I've never seen a top tennis player ever question the technology. They seem pretty happy with the results/accuracy. This will be the tech MLB uses when an automated strike zone is deemed ready (probably 2022 or 2023).

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Heard on Cespedes Family BBQ today Clayton has the highest career WAR in Dodgers history, Brooklyn or LA. That’s pretty amazing.

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