John_Havok
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need a bounceback from Mr. Berrios in the worst way, for both him and the team. -
I agree with this. He should be DHing so we dont have to watch Tapia hit 3-4 balls that travel a total distance of 12 feet before they hit the ground.
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That is interesting. But that ring is way too big... lol. It's like a competition now to see how big they can make these things. "755 diamonds, four custom-cut rubies, four princess-cut rubies, 11 round rubies and the genuine white pearl set in the ring. The total gem carat weight of the ring is approximately 13.3 carats" Poker does it better with bracelets IMO
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It's because it's new, and new is scary. Also, when something goes wrong we'd rather be able to complain about a human screwing us over than some stupid computer, where there's no real room to debate whether it was a ball or a strike. Human element and all that s*** garbage.
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Interesting you mention that, that was alot of what they were trying to work out. If people were watching the minor league gameday, the strike zone overlay on the gameday wasn't matching up with the robo-umps zone on alot of close calls. That's something they wanted to improve upon to reduce confusion of the fans.
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THat's ... disappointing
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He's only at 80 pitches. No way they yank him yet.
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Still perfect through 7 and Bellinger goes yard
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13 Ks. NEXT!
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lol, Dodgers hitters want to see him pitch, they just went 3 out in like 2 minutes. Off to the bottom of the 7th. You love to see it
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Wow. vintage kershaw, he's dealing. 3 Ks in the 6th, up to 12 Ks on the day and only 69 pitches.
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And here he comes for the bottom of the 6th. lets see if you jinxed him
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Much of the trouble they had with high and low calls was the heights for players had been reported incorrectly, or wasnt up to date... but then also whether the strike zone would be programmed as the 3D version, or a 2 plane version where only the front of the plate would count. They also experimented with programming a slightly wider zone to be more in line with how how human umps expand slightly. The complaints they got were pretty hilarious though. Like when the catcher sets up outside the zone, the pitch misses the target completely on the inner half and the catcher has to lunge to get it, and still gets called a strike because it did go through the zone. Optically it looked horrendous even though the ball went through the zone.
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Yeah it's not 100%, nothing really can be. There are some pitches that for some reason just don't register. But 99+% with the occiasional pitch not registering and subsequently being called by the ump instead would be 1000 times more preferable than the current clown show we see daily. What they did in the minors is they had the ump behind the plate, he would get a notification within a second or less of the pitch being caught with what it registered as. If he didn't get a notification due to a glitch, he made the call. They also gave the ump the ability to make a call that differed from the notification if the ump felt that machine very obviously got it wrong (which it did early on with some pitches - usually with high and low)
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Yeahs, playing LF in Coors at the age he was when he did it was a recipe for disaster.
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I would think yhe would be laughing all the way to the bank. He was one of the top 10 paid players in the game while performing below replacement level from 1995 till his retirement
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2022)
John_Havok replied to Grant77's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
That's honestly laughable at how much of an impact these umps have had in just 5 games based on terrible pitch calling. More than 9 runs -
Have we even seen a 90% correct called strike rate in the first 5 games? Seems 82 or 83% is the norm for Jays games so far. That's just not acceptable
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Dang Vlads timing still isn’t there yet on plus velocity fastballs
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Vlad is coming out of his shoes first pitch.
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That outside fastball was strike 3 last night
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He’s late on every fastball, early on the offspeed. He’s a mess.
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Let’s see if the offence can wake up here
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Yup. 98 mph and Naquin took him yard. Then he gets a flyout and strikes out Votto on 3 pitches. Cant tell how the slider looks as Im just radio scouting but 98mph fastball to 85mph slider is pretty good separation
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Anthony Gose coming in for Bieber. Gose actually being deployed as a guy to put out the fire is friggin awesome. Here comes the 100mph heat
