Carroll has the higher floor, Davis the higher ceiling - the question is whether Davis will have a swing and miss issue that will limit the ceiling. Most evaluators believe he will continue to develop and adapt and the swing and miss will be addressed.
Generally go with the big power guy, which is Davis.
Most likely, the Giants knew 2021 was a Cinderella season and they are simply not that good. And didn't want to give a 31 yr old pitcher a 5 year deal.
Historically, yes, along with many other industries. But most employer-union issues are now dealt with by various mechanisms that do not involve labour disruption. Baseball needs to get out of the dinosaur age.
The two sides could just extend the current CA for 1 year with some mutually agreeable things like universal DH, and come up with a plan to negotiate the stickier stuff over the next year.
This would be the smart business approach if they can't hammer something out by February 15. Baseball is f***ed if there is a lengthy 2022 disruption.
Saunders reports that Statcast uses the previous calls of major league umpires to build a database of the top and bottom of the strike zone for each hitter.
Isn’t that ironic? Until MLB comes up with a machine-comprehensible definition of the top and bottom of the strike zone, machines will need the assistance of humans to define the strike zone for the machines.
- Courtesy of Google.
Its from a few years ago though. What will be really interesting is whether breaking pitches are more effective with roboumps, given it uses the 3D strike zone when human umps use more of a planar one