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  1. bukie
    I get that it is pitch f/x data, but how reliable is that for determining the strike zone in every stadium? Each stadium is obviously uniquely designed which makes their systems at least questionable as to the accuracy of how it is measuring strikes. It is one thing to judge speed and movement of any one pitch, but the strike zone is fluid throughout the league, from ump to ump, batter to batter. There are a whole bunch of reasons why a pitch that any one stadium's system determines to be in the zone may be called a ball. The cameras track the trajectory of the ball, and it's accurate to within an inch. Since mounds, distances to the plate, and size of the plate are consistent from park to park, the data will be consistent across the board. There can be fluctuations from park-to-park. See point 3 here. The fluctuations aren't in the data, they're in the conditions at the park.
  2. bukie
    By definition it always maintains consistency from park to park. I'm not sure how you could even think otherwise here. You not aware how motion tracking cameras work? It's not all on the framer, but that's a part of it.
  3. bukie
    I get that it is pitch f/x data, but how reliable is that for determining the strike zone in every stadium? Each stadium is obviously uniquely designed which makes their systems at least questionable as to the accuracy of how it is measuring strikes. It is one thing to judge speed and movement of any one pitch, but the strike zone is fluid throughout the league, from ump to ump, batter to batter. There are a whole bunch of reasons why a pitch that any one stadium's system determines to be in the zone may be called a ball. The cameras track the trajectory of the ball, and it's accurate to within an inch. Since mounds, distances to the plate, and size of the plate are consistent from park to park, the data will be consistent across the board.
  4. bukie
    Soon as you start actually reading the information and taking it for what it is. What is determining non-called strikes? How do they judge that? Does the system vary from stadium to stadium? I'm not exactly sure what you're asking here, but it's pitch f/x data, collected the same way across the board. Sometimes there is a fluky result on a false read, but those generally get filtered out of the data and it's obvious (like a 0 for either a horizontal or vertical pitch location, which would indicate the pitch went about 4 feet from its intended target), and is usually fixed later. Pitch f/x data is available to be gathered from MLB by anyone, so it's not exactly proprietary information that would be biased in some way.
  5. bukie
    Soon as you start actually reading the information and taking it for what it is.
  6. bukie
    The opposing lineup matters not.
  7. bukie
    20% of their in-strike-zone calls have been balls. That's crazy.
  8. bukie
    How did Javy begin the year at Daytona last year?
  9. bukie
    Nobody's reading between the lines, it's just not that unusual for teams to not have player progress through 6 levels of minor leagues in 3 years, especially if they are drafting younger players overall. Sure, there's occasionally a Mark Appel who stays in college ball for an extra year and starts out at a higher level of the minors, or a Mike Trout/Bryce Harper/Jose Fernandez that gets bumped up ridiculously quickly and catches on, but those are by far the exception. Right now, at A+, AA, and AAA, the Cubs have some of the youngest players in each league, so they're not overly conservative, either. Which should tell you that 1) Development is coming along just fine, and 2) Expecting players to go through 6 levels of minor leagues in 3 years is pretty unrealistic, so it's not that amazing that no real Cub prospects have done so in the past 3 years.
  10. bukie
    Err, the Cubs have some of the youngest players at each level of the minor leagues. They're developing just fine, there's just an unrealistic expectation of how quickly a drafted player progresses through minor league systems on average.
  11. bukie
    The Pacers started out 16-1 and the Bulls 7-9. Since then, the Bulls have been 38-23 (the start of that was actually 2-7, they've been 36-16 since), while the Pacers have been 37-23.
  12. bukie
    Eeeeeexcellent.
  13. bukie
    Pretty sure I'm more familiar with the names on that lineup card than the Cubs lineup card today.
  14. bukie
    The pitcher formerly known as Fausto Carmona, Roberto Hernandez In Anglo terms, wouldn't this be like changing your name from Chest Rockwell to John Smith? It's more like a guy by the name of John Smith having a fake ID for Ron Mexico.
  15. bukie
    Man, Texas's starting rotation right now is...not pretty.
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  17. bukie
    Only if the others agree not to refer to him as Schlitty.
  18. bukie
    Finally the reason the Cubs released Kottaras gets out.
  19. bukie
    That's pretty much exactly what my response was during our conversation this morning. Did we have a conversation this morning that I have blacked out from memory?
  20. bukie
    If you thought your chances to win the game were Grimm before, they're now in the Schlitter.
  21. bukie
    I think a fair timetable for Castro to turn things around would be around the time Javier Baez is expected to make the jump to the majors. If Castro hasn't shown signs of improvement by that time (June 9-ish?), there's no reason to let him block Baez at short.
  22. bukie
    Tiebreaker is always division winner first.
  23. bukie
    Now EJ in for Wondo.
  24. bukie
    Now don't get picked off.
  25. bukie
    How do you lose Marquez that badly? EDIT: Ahh, Gonzalez got picked and Beckerman didn't notice.
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