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[p_rushing]

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Computerized cameras to call balls and strikes will be used during Spring Training this year.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...training-games

So MLB is now giving teams cameras to steal signs ... coming soon to every MLB ballpark.

All hail our new robot overlords.

So it sends a command to the umpire who then calls it out...I can't wait to see when an umpire calls it out like they normally would, only to get the other call in their ear and have to immediately correct it. [emoji38]

I still don't know how I feel about it, honestly. As much as I like the human element in the calling of the game, umps like Angel Hernandez constantly demonstrate the need for this. Maybe it's just a natural evolution of the game through technology.

It'll be weird once it gets implemented in regular season (whenever that happens) and I'd have to start using the "Perfect" strike zone in The Show to emulate it. Those personalized zones can affect the game so much.

Maybe they use it to finally fire umps. Allow some human error, but once you are over a % wrong you are removed for retraining and put in the minors. You work your way back or you are gone.

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[Jr.]

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So MLB is now giving teams cameras to steal signs ... coming soon to every MLB ballpark.Maybe they use it to finally fire umps. Allow some human error, but once you are over a % wrong you are removed for retraining and put in the minors. You work your way back or you are gone.

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Why would you want incorrect calls?

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[p_rushing]

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Why would you want incorrect calls?

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I can live with some human error, as long as they are boderline calls. It depends on how the cameras will call strikes and if there will be any differences from ballpark to ballpark, batter to batter, etc. Strike zones are different and how the cameras adjust to a hitters stance and how they measure it on the fly will help me decide if I want them call the pitches.

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[CBoller1331]

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Less whining from batters and pitchers (and the announcers) will be nice.

I think players and announcers are always gonna find a way to whine about the strike zone.....especially when the robot zones call those high strikes on the corners

[kenp86]

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how soon after installation of these robot umps do they get hacked? lol itll happen. probably in the playoffs

[PhilliesFan13]

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how soon after installation of these robot umps do they get hacked by the Astros? lol itll happen. probably in the playoffs

Maybe?

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[DieHardYankee26]

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https://twitter.com/jmeans25/status/1220045493960613892?s=21

Glad we have players coming out and basically saying cheating is worth it with these penalties. Good job Manfred.


Cliff Corcoran in the Athletic on the new 3 batter rule:

Spoiler

However, while there were 2,162 pitching appearances that lasted fewer than three batters in 2019, 1,471 of them concluded with the end of an inning or the end of the game. That leaves just 691 appearances that the three-batter minimum would have extended, and that’s before searching that sample for outings that ended in injury and thus also would have been exempt from the rule.
Over the course of the 2,429 major-league games played in 2019, those 691 pitching appearances work out to just one every 3 1/2 games. If, in every case, the new rule eliminated the mid-inning pitching change entirely, it would have made the average time of a major-league game in 2019 (drumroll, please) … 34 seconds shorter.
Thirty. Four. Seconds.
After rounding, the rule would have reduced the average time of game from a record of 3:10 to a record of 3:09.

[Caulfield]

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https://twitter.com/jmeans25/status/1220045493960613892?s=21



Glad we have players coming out and basically saying cheating is worth it with these penalties. Good job Manfred.




Cliff Corcoran in the Athletic on the new 3 batter rule:

Spoiler

However, while there were 2,162 pitching appearances that lasted fewer than three batters in 2019, 1,471 of them concluded with the end of an inning or the end of the game. That leaves just 691 appearances that the three-batter minimum would have extended, and that’s before searching that sample for outings that ended in injury and thus also would have been exempt from the rule.
Over the course of the 2,429 major-league games played in 2019, those 691 pitching appearances work out to just one every 3 1/2 games. If, in every case, the new rule eliminated the mid-inning pitching change entirely, it would have made the average time of a major-league game in 2019 (drumroll, please) … 34 seconds shorter.
Thirty. Four. Seconds.
After rounding, the rule would have reduced the average time of game from a record of 3:10 to a record of 3:09.

I've said it before but if people just dont like baseball it wont matter if a game last 3 hours or 1 hour, they are not gonna watch. Joe Maddon got it right, it's more about the pace of play than the length of the actual game.

[WaitTilNextYear]

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Jeter and Larry Walker whatever. Both are fine.

What concerns me is that Raul Ibanez only got one vote.

[Jr.]

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I've said it before but if people just dont like baseball it wont matter if a game last 3 hours or 1 hour, they are not gonna watch. Joe Maddon got it right, it's more about the pace of play than the length of the actual game.

I think the only people that talk about the length of games anymore are talking heads. Manfred started focusing on the lack of action a couple of years ago when they got rid of throwing intentional walk pitches.

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[TheMatrix31]

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It's not about game length or pace of play.

It's about people in charge of determining what's cool determining baseball is not. Period.

[Jr.]

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It's not about game length or pace of play.

It's about people in charge of determining what's cool determining baseball is not. Period.

Thanks, once again, for telling all of us what's right and what's wrong. I don't know what this site would do without your infinite wisdom

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[Speedy]

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What concerns me is that Raul Ibanez only got one vote.

I trust this is sarcasm.

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[ImTellinTim]

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Saw earlier that with Pat Mahomes making the Super Bowl, the Detroit Tigers have drafted more Super Bowl QBs than the Detroit Lions.

Well technically Charlie Batch has 2 rings!

[WaitTilNextYear]

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I trust this is sarcasm.

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But of course.

My favorite part of the HoF ballots is those 2-3 guys who are career journeymen that somehow receive a vote or two from their hometown beat writers or whomever. I almost wonder if someone is out there just not wanting guys to get zero votes.