8/20 at NY Mets

[Jagwar]

I miss Westburg

[Roy Firestone]

This is the rare game where we are getting runs often and spread out. We still need more but this is a good night so far..

[CynBeth]

I love those names. We have been calling him The Phantom.

[OriolesMagic83]

Checking with Roy if 6 run by the 4th is an acceptable amount of runs, since this offense is pathetic.

[HowAboutThat]

It’s interesting that so many of the guys on the IL remain with the team. Don’t they have to go somewhere and rehab?

[OriolesMagic83]

3 minutes ago, bpilktree67 said:

The Mets just paid James McCann 8 million dollars to have him hit a 2 run homer against them.  

It won't be too funny if they miss the playoffs by 1 game and lose this game by less than 3 runs.

[Jagwar]

1 minute ago, HowAboutThat said:

It’s interesting that so many of the guys on the IL remain with the team. Don’t they have to go somewhere and rehab?

What do you want them to do... stare at their arms?

[Roy Firestone]

Anyone think they should bring up Brandon Young for a spot start next week? Or the pen? He pitched well last night...

[Roy Firestone]

3 minutes ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

Checking with Roy if 6 run by the 4th is an acceptable amount of runs, since this offense is pathetic.

unfortunately, not acceptable...8 run minimum through 4...

[eddie83]

6 minutes ago, Hallas said:

The last time I looked at data regarding statcast/hawk-eye data, the median error is like +/- 0.25 inches and around 1 in 20 or so calls (around 2 stdevs) were +/- 5/8 inch.  It's almost certainly better for pitches that are clearly in the zone or clearly out of the zone, but you're going to have consistency issues because when it misses it's going to be in a random direction.  On the other hand, human umps tend to miss in the same direction, resulting in a more consistent zone.  While there are merits to both, you're likely to find players that would strongly prefer a consistent zone, even if it's consistently wrong in some instances.

 

You'll get most of the benefits of human consistency with a challenge system, but I wonder how it's going to be handled if you challenge one and hawk-eye gives you a wacky result that would overturn a correct call.  There would need to be human cross-checker to disregard bad results.

Sounds like you know your stuff. Much more than me. 
 

I have seen a handful of challenges watching AAA games. From the little I have seen it was handled well. 

[eddie83]

Hell of a play.  

[LookitsPuck]

There really needs to be accountability for these umps.

[eddie83]

Alvarez of all people whining about a call   Takes some nerve. 

[Roy Firestone]

get this out Dean

[Roy Firestone]

Atta boy Dean...lets get more runs...