Abomination

Great catch by Taylor! Good thing he was paying attention.

Lol Puig. Yeah, it's only game 7. Not like you need to pay attention or anything.

Makes me cringe to see pitchers arms in slow motion. So much force on the elbow.

Are they being held against their will?

Lol, the ball boy left it for the security officer, who's gonna end up on blooper reels for years.

The Phantom of the Old School Stats.

I'm not even sure they did sell high on Ozuna. He had a rough first half after switching teams, but was back to 130 wRC+ in the second.

Or maybe acquire one in exchange for Gray

What a great game by the Raps!

Seeing the approach of both teams this game, they might want to rethink the shifts.

Lol, I thought that was a joke or something at first. https://www.frontrowamy.com/

FVV is such a beauty.

Just gather all the f***ing data and open it up to the public. If you use it in a commercial product, you pay royalties. If you want to play around with the numbers or use it for your thesis or something, maybe you can advance the sport. This current trend in all the sports where they gather craploads of data, and most of it is only available to the teams or deep pocket commercial companies is just plain annoying.

No it isn't, it's just eliminating the hail mary type challenges we're getting a lot of. The, I'll challenge because it's a big play and hope they see something in slow motion to warrant overturning it even though they probably won't type challenges. The emphasis imo should be on calls where the umpire simply, clearly blew the call rather than ones where it only becomes (possibly) visible in ultra slow motion with 50 different angles. There is still a human element to the game. Now if you can bring in a system that will detect issues in almost real time without the challenges, I'd be all for that. Same with robo umps for balls and strikes. Delaying the game after every close play while your video room looks at everything with a fine tooth comb, and challenging plays where you don't know if it's a mistake or not because there's an outside chance it gets overturned just causes the game to drag on with very little or no real benefit. That's just my opinion.

I guess maybe if MLB were to find a way to review all plays in near real time, the challenges wouldn't even be necessary. Maybe they can use AI examining all the video angles on close plays to get a determination in seconds, then relay to the umps if there's a change. I agree adding or subtracting base runners isn't ideal, but if challenges are only made on clear cut bad calls then it should really also be irrelevant. Also, it shouldn't affect the rest of the sport since most leagues don't have the replay capability. Dunno, just thinking about it off the top of my head. Counting it as a mound visit probably isn't punishing at all in 90% of the cases. If you really want to mix things up, you could make it that if you challenge and fail, the other team can make one of your players not in the game ineligible to enter. Obviously I doubt anyone would ever vote for that change, but not facing that elite closer sitting in the bullpen as punishment would spice things up a bit. There'd also be a bunch of ticked off closers. More realistically, maybe the manager gets tossed if they unsuccessfully challenge.

I disagree, I think the challenges should be deterred unless it's something clear cut. The intent is really to reverse an obvious bad call, not whether a base runner for example came off the base for a fraction of an instant that no one could detect without slow motion replays. Managers are challenging tossups because it's often more valuable to take a shot than it is to worry about burning a challenge that might not be needed again. Those are what need to be eliminated, and penalizing them will ensure that only the clear cut mistakes are challenged.

That's interesting, but realistically probably isn't very punishing most of the time. Most teams never come close to using all their mound visits anyway, so it would just be a situation of once in a while forcing a pitcher change based on random timing. A lot more interesting could be something like if the defensive team challenges a play and loses the challenge, the offense gets to add a base runner on 1st (pushing the other runners up a base if appropriate). If the offensive team challenges and loses the challenge, the defense either gets to subtract a base runner or is awarded an extra out.

Khris Davis of course.

He was just being efficient. Got all his work done in one inning!

Lol closers. What a catch!

Betts had to turn around, off balance, and throw a perfect blind throw to 2nd to even have a shot. Probably a 1 in 100 play by Betts. They don't have to get it all back this inning. If he gets second, he can score without a hit. Obviously it turned out poorly, but I don't think it was a terrible decision, just a terrible result.

What a great throw! Questionable decision by Kemp, but they don't have to get it all back this inning either. Maybe not a terrible gamble absent of the result.

That's being generous.

It's happening with so many, I feel like there may be something different with the balls.