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Dan Szymborski

12:59

He did get a rather late start to the season

1:00

And they have to pay him the money no matter what!

Robot Umps

1:00

Do you have any concerns that robot umpires for balls and strikes will be working in a two-dimensional strike zone? I hate the idea, but I hate the artificial pitch clock too - why are we hurrying up exactly?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

Some, but I'm not sure human umps are terribly good at multiple dimensions either

Bob Loblaw

1:00

Who is, in your opinion, the least analytically advanced team?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

White Sox

Guest

1:00

"one can argue it's not good to remove a skillset" I see pitch framing as the same kind of skill set that encourages soccer plays to go down like they were shot and flop around a bit when no one was near them in order to draw a penalty.

Dan Szymborski

1:01

I want to give Nobel prizes for chemistry, not Nobel prize for deceptive misleading chemistry

1:02

My main problem with robot balls/strikes is that a whole appeal process is just dumb time-wasting red tape

The goal should be the ump to hear "ball" or "strike" in an earpiece and then evaluate check swings, etc

Guest

1:03

Last year Michael Harris started really slow and then exploded in last few months, do you see the same possibly happening this year or is the guy he's been this year more likely his norm with way too many ground balls?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

I'm nto so sure, but I hope so given how bad that projection is if he doesn't!

K Gilgeous-Alexander

1:03

What's the difference between statcast and pitch info plate discipline metrics? Has one been shown to be more accurate than the other?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

I think the problem is you'd be judging accuracy of the calls against one or the other

1:04

On that note, I have a lot to take care of this afternoon, so I bid you all adieu for two weeks!

(I'm away next week)

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