Malike

Mrs. Esterhouse making the game about him, gotta love MLB umps.

He pitches differently with someone on base. It certainly altered the inning.

He gave up 44 HR's last year, you don't want him out of the game just yet.

Mrs. Esterhouse behind the plate tonight, skewing things already.

The Angels are a train wreck of an org. Plenty of teams have multiple superstars and go to the playoffs almost every year.

Target Westburg first and the others feel slighted and refuse to sign!

If they don't score 7 runs by the 3rd inning off Lance Lynn it's going to be even more unbearable in the game thread (if that's even possible).

He's only given up 6 after giving up 44 last year.

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Hopefully, if they have to trade Gunnar it's with a year and a half of control instead of a rental to maximize the return.

Just look at the Braves. Stuck with all those players and in 2nd place.

Yeah, someone explained that above. If accuracy goes down because of the pitch type, then humans are probably not sufficient for today's stuff to make accurate calls.

People have been waiting a month and a half to turn him back into the whipping boy.

It's not that crazy, I believe there is tweaking going on in the MiL year to year to the system to adjust the strike zone so every pitch doesn't have to be a meatball to be called a strike if the batter doesn't swing. I think the worst part is, you get kids in AAA who are used to balls being balls and strikes being strikes for a year or two, then they come up and now what they have been trained to take as a ball is a strike and the whole thing goes upside down.

“I was shocked,” Burnes said. “Being this late in the spring with some of the moves the Brewers had made to better the offense and get some more depth ... it was definitely shock.” Burnes then called his agent, Scott Boras, who also represents Hoskins. “There was shock when I called my agent,” Burnes said. “He was like, ‘Seriously? It kind of goes counterproductive to some of the comments that were said with the Hoskins signing.’ It definitely caught everyone off-guard.”

I'm confident they aren't preaching chasing balls or swinging at pitchers pitches, both things our guys are doing.

Found it interesting Hyde said the team is undisciplined at the plate and need to take better at bats after the game last night.

So they are basically admitting that pitchers with lots of spin are harder for humans to get right. Okay, you have the technology to help, use it.

I've been in a union for 25 years. I have seen many people lose their jobs despite being in a union. MLB should not be afraid that the umps will strike, if anything it could force them to go auto and actually take the nonsense out of the games. If you are incompetent at your job, union protection can't save you in any other industry.

It just doesn't make sense when they have the technology to improve it, to not improve it.

Did he change agents? Boras was his agent in March.

Well, his xAcc was 91% which seems low. Lance Barksdale had an xAcc of 94%. I don't understand why there are differences other than knowing that Diaz is pure trash at his job and the bar is lower for him.

Expected accuracy is different for each umpire apparently. Diaz has an expected accuracy of 91%? He shouldn't be calling games.

If not for Laz Diaz this game looks a lot different. We are up 3-2 and not stretching Perez out for 40 pitches.

No, I mean he should be next to go lol.