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By Mooreisbetter27 · Posted
Not gonna lie, that would be kinda cool. And very unique in the modern game. -
By DrungoHazewood · Posted
Oooh... maybe with robot umpires we could go back to how catchers used to position themselves 100+ years ago. More-or-less standing up, five feet or more behind the plate. In the 1800s they'd stand even farther back, just kind of smothering pitches if there were less than two strikes. Trying to save themselves from pitches and foul tips, since they had primitive protective gear. Might save wear and tear on catchers, especially their knees. -
Do they keep track of teams that have been most and least fortunate in terms of strike/ball calls? Feel like it’s been posted here before but the O’s seem to constantly be on the wrong side of these scorecards. -
By bigdeniski · Posted
I agree with Roy that Mayo's bat would strengthen our starting lineup. But as long as we are winning and competing for the division title, Elias is not going to bring up Mayo, Holiday or any of our budding stars until he gets another year of control. Elias is playing to win for both the present and the long term. -
By DrungoHazewood · Posted
What happens if you're already to the far right of the talent distribution curve and there is a scarcity of people who can perform at the desired level? Don't you just get into a continuous cycle of firing the worst performing X%, and replacing them with similarly- or lower-performing people? Like, for example, if you wanted everyone on the team to hit .330, and you fired everyone who couldn't hit .330. But there's no pool of readily available .330+ hitters to replace them with. So you end up replacing "under-performing" .300 hitters with other .250, .270, .300 hitters, who'll soon also be fired. I'm not convinced that incentives will do much of anything to improve umpire performance, nor that there are a bunch of umps in the minors (or elsewhere) who're better.
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