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Maybe if he gets more aggressive he'll be able to hit as well as Johnny Mac? We can only hope.

Are you implying that his weekend in Kevin Seitzer's guest room didn't improve his offensive projections? And you call yourself a fan...

The gGeneral fan population seems to be pretty split on current defensive metrics. I wonder if metrics based on this new tracking info will be more palatable to the masses, especially if we are lucky enough to have this information infect our TV broadcasts in real time. When fans can see and be told in real time that Matt Kemp's jumps and routes suck, or that Jeter's first step is terrible, it will help. Might also help gold glove idiocy!

Perez tore his elbow ligament last year but opted for rehab over TJS. He's still rehabbing, apparently. So he gets "cut" today, and he'll probably get cut literally in a month or two.

Think about how awesome MLB.com Gameday will be, or could be, when this finally rolls out. Laptops will become a mandatory TV viewing accessory for all baseball nerds like us.

Sammy picks Santiago Casilla, one of the obvious top HLD choices still on the board. The next ten up are: 64 Boxy 65 JaysFever 66 Spanky 67 GeorgiePeach 68 SpeedyGose 69 JaysBlue 70 Hurl 71 Havok22 72 Silvergun 73 Dinger Gibbers is on vacation so we might hit a wall at his pick. Expect to wait 12 hours for Spanky, and then another 12 or so for Gibbers.

Didn't we watch Juan Perez die on live TV last summer? No, that was Ortiz.

Let's go with 4.38 Has he been emailed? He was on proboards this morning but failed to pick...

So when does z3r0s' clock expire?

I don't even know what a petabyte is.

Seven TB per game. Hoooooooleeeeeeeeeee fawk. The system is integrating a whole game worth of video and tracking data from multiple angles, so I guess it wouldn't be too hard to imagine someone creating a way for the useful data output to be much, much smaller. Turn everything into raw numbers, remove the useless information, etc.

Sorry, I don't read any threads that Angrioter starts.

No? Well you should be! http://m.mlb.com/video/v31405521/heywards-catch-through-bams-new-tracking-technology/?partnerId=as_mlb_20140302_19373294 From my understanding, the new technology uses both radar and a dual-camera system to track the ball and all players at all time. Stuff like speed off the bat, leads on the basepaths, routes, jump times, ball hang times, etc. will all become numerical, analyzable data. It sounds like all of this information will be publicly available and shared amongst teams, like pitchF/X. This new technology seems to overlap with the well known pitchF/X, the proprietary and secret hitF/X, and the promised but yet non-existent fieldF/X. PitchF/X will be used in 2014, but it's future after that is "TBD". For instance, on a brilliant, game-saving diving catch by an outfielder, this new system will let us understand what created that outcome. Was it the quickness of his first step, his acceleration? Was it his initial positioning? What if the pitcher had thrown a different pitch? Everything will be connected for the first time, providing a tool for answers to questions like this and more. There will be something for everyone, far beyond what has been available in the past. Miller Park in Milwaukee, Target Field in Minnesota and Citi Field in New York will be operational for this tracking in 2014. The plan is to start rolling out the rest this season so that all 30 ballparks are operational by 2015 Opening Day… “There’s a speed component to the game from an offensive side, too. You can start to see how quickly they get down the baseline as they make contact, and as they hit a ground ball, or as they hit a double into the gap. If they didn’t score, we always say that the game is a matter of inches, well if he gets thrown out or he is safe at home, you can actually go back and measure it from an evaluation tool, and say, did he get a big enough lead, was he running hard enough, did he take the right angle, you now have the ability to measure that, which we’ve never been able to do.”

I was on both Smith and Burton, but ended up just going with the holds guy who had the higher projected K rate.

Depends on what you already have on your team though. Six Brett Lawries or Jose Bautistas might be a few too many, but a couple of them might really help a team. Twenty five Colby Rasmuses and the first wave of adversity might wash away your team. This is all useless ********, of course. Hutch looked good today!

I think he'll be an asset even if he puts up his 2012 peripherals. Seems to have a solid grasp on the setup role and its not like Jim Henderson is a sure thing. There were lots of guys I considered here. No fewer than five players available that I wanted to some extent.

K rod plz

Dinger is up. 54 Dinger 55 Torontofan 56 BTS 57 KingKat 58 NJH 59 Realmin 60 Fearthedoc 61 TheCatsAss 62 z3r0s 63 Sammy 64 Boxy 65 JaysFever 66 Spanky

It was you. I just picked Darren O'Day.

Havok is up. Going to bed but ill check back in the morning since I'm next

Doesn't matter much. Both kinds have benefits and drawbacks. Bautista types can fire up a team, but they can also cause tension. Wells types don't have that emotional upside but they are positive influences in a long season. I'll take the guy with the highest WAR, thanks!

Jaysblue then hurl then havok!

The artist formerly known is Gibbers has picked. Someone is up. Speedygose maybe?

I would like an honest explanation. Wtf happened, and are you ok?

Spankys window expires at 10.30, not sure what he was trying to say by posting Dominic Dune twice... Is there a similarly named player? Something Dunn maybe? I don't know.