We Got The Whole 9

Fake rally in full effect

Willy should have caught that gimme popup. Know the park you're playing in. The foul ground is massive here.

You can't have a SBTB themed thread in a baseball forum and not have Jesse decking Eric

Man Acuna pulled a 97 mph pitch from Cole on the very outside edge of the plate 477 feet That dude is Ridiculous

Scouts are less necessary than they've ever been, but I think it's an extreme oversimplification to think that trackman and the like are replicating their work entirely. For one I'm not sure how universal coverage and data sharing is between various minor league parks and short season facilities. More importantly, scouts add value by understanding and articulating why an observable thing is happening so it's easy for teams to understand how repeatable/fixable it might be. Advanced data make the 'observable things' more specific and less noisy(e.g. exit velocity v. batting average), but there's still significant art in understanding what mechanics lead to those observable things, how they scale against better competition, and if there's opportunities for improvement/fixes. Where I think the biggest open question is, in a world with substantial video coverage of the minor leagues, how necessary is it for scouts to be in person to do that work? And if it's less necessary for scouts to be in person, are you able to get the same benefit with fewer scouts doing video analysis in a centralized manner. You are right in the oversimplification of my observation, but thats actually more along the line of where my thoughts are. I guess it just doesn't surprise me at all that they called in the Bob's and came to this conclusion, what with the smorgasbord of data and video available. I would think that over the last few years as this stuff became commonplace they probably started to see the writing on the wall (like in my line of work as a grocer, the self-checkout line is a growing, inevitable threat we are keenly aware of) and weren't necessarily blindsided Podesta-style. It sucks when anybody loses a job, unless its due to egregious incompetence or detrimental conduct, etc, but sadly thats the reality we live in. Efficiency is key, and like you said, they could possibly achieve comparable results even with a smaller staff. I have doubts that this is a COVID motivated move but rather the new norm.

This might be a totally stupid question to ask so rip away. But, MLB scouts- how necessary are they these days when we have Track man and such that totally blows away even the keenest eye tests? There's just so much information available that they could never provide. What are they even bringing to the table? Rip away.

Thats really amazing. Kudos to WillCo. Now if he could just make that type of drastic improvement in launch angle. More of those hard hit balls would find the seats.

Giolito got the 2nd most whiffs ever in a no-hitter behind none other than Nolan Ryan

Nasty game from Giolito 13 Ks and the 19th no-hitter in White Sox history

Giolito 3 outs from a no-hitter 12:1 KBB, 86 pitches

Offense racking up those called strikes in the zone when they get ahead in the count. They are way too passive in hitters counts. Ive never seen anything like it on a consistent basis.

What the hell is up with Rizzo and his desire to go to his knees for breaking balls

If only he took that 2-2 garbage

Good spot to use Duane and he came through big time

This is uuuuuuugly. He is way off.

If you want to squint to find something under the hood (the KBB is not bad at all), he does have an above average chase rate and his contact against if he qualified would put him in the top 60 among RP. His change has graded well and they've talked about needing a RP that can get LH out, so... maybe they're just hoping with experience he fills that void.

Miller got to stand on a base for like 2 minutes ha

The Brewers suck, them handing the Reds some losses this week puts us in a spot to really widen the gap this weekend over the Reds and really not worry about them again. Lol Seriously you guys have been pushing this bs since 2017. And even if they are not as good as their record indicates, we look like total dogshit against their pitching (so chalk up several more Ws for them from that alone) and their pen locks down 1 run wins consistently. They are going to be a top 3 team in the division, not the Reds IMO.

Leave it to the Brewers to solve Bauer. I hate that horsefeathering team.

These guys suck at managing a roster. Alternatively, the guy with no professional innings and the guy with a career 1:1 K/BB ratio, neither of whom have pitched competitively in 6-12 months, are not great bets to step right into major league relief roles. The Cubs are deploying 2 guys that you can say that about, and another 2 that are on the precipice IMO And pitchers get super fast tracked like that sometimes. I just dont feel that there is much at stake to let one of them take one of these career minor leaguers spot before they go into a razor-thin highly competitive trade market.

Mooney says the Cubs are too chickenshit to use Marquez or Carraway this season. These guys suck at managing a roster.

The Sox almost hit as many HR in that series than the Cards have hit (albeit in a shorter season than the rest of the teams have had) all season

Polanco with the go-ahead HR off of Phelps in the bottom of the 8th

God I thought for sure they would score after that

horsefeathering gb machines these guys