Robots Rock
by Matthew on Aug 1, 2009 6:17 PM PDT
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Just saying.
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I should know that one, but I can't remember.
Here’s a link to Brooks Baseball pitch f/x. It has a function that plots balls and strikes, with splits, and by team. This is current to the 6th inning I believe. Link.
Like Gameday if you've ever seen it
Blue – in play, red – strike, green – ball. No way to differentiate swinging strikes from called to it’s hard to say anything about those, but the six balls in what should pretty much be the zone are telltale.
De Gutibus non disputandum est
by Bearskin Rugburn on Aug 1, 2009 6:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I'd check out gameday if someone would give me a link to it.
How do you look at gameday?
Well, official MLB sites are a bit of a clusterfuck
So I prefer to just search Google for “Mariners” at gametime and click on the first result (the one that says “Seattle Mariners 6 – Texas Rangers 2 in progress”).
You can also access it from mariners.com.
Log into seattle mariners official MLB site.
On the front page there should be a small box score for the current game, there should be a game day link at the top right of that small window. It’s possible you may have to create an account to view gameday, but I don’t think so. Basic gameday is free.
Pretty easy
mlb.com —> Scoreboard —> Gameday links above every ongoing/finished game. Best to have the scoreboard linked so you don’t need to load MLB though.
De Gutibus non disputandum est
by Bearskin Rugburn on Aug 1, 2009 8:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Bottom Line, Felix got squeezed.
The zone was not only very small, it varied with the pitch. Lovely. Bring on the robots.
Where is earth located in all that?
are all those blue dots water planets?
"Ichiro is death by handkerchief." -- Bruce Jenkins, The San Francisco Chronicle (July 28, 2004)
It's also important to note in this that the strike zones are normalized.
A common misconception is that the up and down borders of the strike zone are unchanging in this kind of picture – it’s not, it’s normalized based on the batter (not exactly sure how it works though).
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http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com
http://www.rightfieldbleachers.com
Do you mean it would change based on the size of the batter? As it should.
Knees to letters is different depending on your height.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
It seems obvious, but you never know.
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http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com
http://www.rightfieldbleachers.com
It's done manually
pitch/FX operators calibrate the zone to the batter’s letters and knees with each new batsman.
by Graham MacAree on Aug 1, 2009 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Ugh.
I’ve always considered using computers to replace umpires for balls & strikes is going a bit too far, but today was ugly.
That's pretty normal for Darryl Cousins, he has a poorly defined and inconsistent strike zone.
Mid-thigh for the bottom and very wide. My opinion of his called strikes on check swings when he’s taking a turn at 1B or 3B is also poor.
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