High tech baseball
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High speed cameras, radars, plus computers to analyze the results. Pretty cool:
https://www.mlb.com/news/rapsodo-and-edgertronic-are-changing-baseball
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And 538 gets back to its strengths:
Relievers Have Broken Baseball. We Have A Plan To Fix It.
Limiting the number of one-out relief pitchers could bring balance back to the game.
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@boomzilla said in High tech baseball:
http s://fivethirtyeight.com/features/relievers-have-broken-baseball-we-have-a-plan-to-fix-it/
"These pitchers’ strikeout rates were about 12 percent higher when they came on in relief than when they started. They also threw about a mile per hour harder in relief."
I would not have thought that a mile an hour would make that much difference.
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1 mile per hour = 1.4 feet per second. So in one second it's 1.4 feet further. Your reaction time is about 1/4th of a second, so 4.2 inches further within your reaction time. You react by judging distance and begin your swing before you think you do.
The ball is 4.2 inches further within the same pitch, the ball is 3 inches in diameter, and the baseball bat is no more than 2 5/8 inches in diameter.
So if you've practiced hitting balls at 90 mph, the ball will be pretty much behind the bat if the pitcher is throwing 91 mph.
According to Terry Bahill, in the Major League Baseball, the range of speed varies between 85 and 95 mph.
1 mph faster is 1/10th of the typical range.
So a 12% strike rate increase per mph average increase is pretty much lines up.
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@jinpa said in High tech baseball:
@boomzilla said in High tech baseball:
http s://fivethirtyeight.com/features/relievers-have-broken-baseball-we-have-a-plan-to-fix-it/
"These pitchers’ strikeout rates were about 12 percent higher when they came on in relief than when they started. They also threw about a mile per hour harder in relief."
I would not have thought that a mile an hour would make that much difference.
Both stats are probably averaging the speed across the entire outing. A good start goes 6 innings or so as opposed to one in a relief appearance. So maybe the speed starts high in the first inning or two of a start but tapers off as the innings progress. And strikeouts almost certainly happen more often on the first time through the order than the second, and more during the second than the third, so there are multiple things going into those numbers.
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Not really high tech, but a fun baseball thing:
Michael Lorenzen accomplishes feat that only Babe Ruth accomplished in Cincinnati Reds win
Michael Lorenzen became the first player to homer, play center and earn the win in a game since Babe Ruth.
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@boomzilla So how long is it going to take to explain this one, on a scale of 1 to cricket?
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@JBert it's very rare today for pitchers in the major leagues to play other positions, like center field. They do hit in the National League (which the Reds are in) but they generally don't practice hitting so they're usually very poor hitters. So what he did was extremely rare.
Babe Ruth is a legend. He played nearly 100 years ago and still holds crap tons of records. If you get asked a baseball trivia question and you don't know the answer, guess "Babe Ruth" and you have a decent chance of getting it correct.
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Is it the American League which has a designated hitter and the National League which doesn't, or vice versa?
Babe Ruth
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@pie_flavor said in High tech baseball:
@boomzilla
Is it the American League which has a designated hitter and the National League which doesn't, or vice versa?Babe RuthYes!FTF
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@boomzilla said in High tech baseball:
Babe Ruth is a legend. He played nearly 100 years ago and still holds crap tons of records. If you get asked a baseball trivia question and you don't know the answer, guess "Babe Ruth" and you have a decent chance of getting it correct.
I know fuckall about baseball but even I know Babe Ruth because my son brought a second-grade library book about him home last year. It was kinda tedious to read but His name was in every other sentence so it got the point across.
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@LaoC
It's just too bad He didn't have quite enough time to solve world hunger in between inventing pitching, home runs, and baseball in general.
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@boomzilla said in High tech baseball:
Babe Ruth is a legend. He played nearly 100 years ago and still holds crap tons of records. If you get asked a baseball trivia question and you don't know the answer, guess "Babe Ruth" and you have a decent chance of getting it correct.
It's even more impressive when you think about how he managed to hold a ball or a bat in his paws.
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@remi said in High tech baseball:
@boomzilla said in High tech baseball:
Babe Ruth is a legend. He played nearly 100 years ago and still holds crap tons of records. If you get asked a baseball trivia question and you don't know the answer, guess "Babe Ruth" and you have a decent chance of getting it correct.
It's even more impressive when you think about how he managed to hold a ball or a bat in his paws.
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Pigs have hooves, not paws
that spoils the joke
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@remi Looks like something you might find in a pic-a-nic basket
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So when are they going to add multi-ball?
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VIDEO: Giants Prospect Jacob Heyward Ejected for Arguing Strike Call by Robot Umpire
San Francisco Giants prospect Jacob Heyward, brother of Jason Heyward, was ejected from an Arizona Fall League game for arguing a strike call by a robot umpire.
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The Patriots of the MLB:
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@boomzilla said in High tech baseball:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmlRbfSavbI&t=3s
not sure if this is posted already and can't be assed trro read and find out
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@Vixen that wiffle ball pitcher was totally balking.
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@boomzilla said in High tech baseball:
@Vixen that wiffle ball pitcher was totally balking.
hmm.... no.... I don't think so. he was silent so that can't be barking.....
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@Vixen said in High tech baseball:
@boomzilla said in High tech baseball:
@Vixen that wiffle ball pitcher was totally balking.
hmm.... no.... I don't think so. he was silent so that can't be barking.....
In New England those are pronounced the same.
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Astros Cheating Scandal Leads to Creation of Important Twitter Account - Sports Illustrated
Twitter's '2020 Astros Shame Tour' will cover the Astros in a unique way
Following this now.
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@boomzilla Tweeticles are "fun" with Firefox's anti-tracking settings not liking embedded tweets.
(red lines added to show where tweets are supposed to be embedded)At least some sites (including here) have the decency to have a copy of the embed that does still show.
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@hungrier no, it's true. You get stuff like this:
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@boomzilla I see Berggren sisters, I upboat.
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The Braves expertly trolled the Astros with a pregame warmup song
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