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I didn’t love every decision Tracy made, but any Red Sox fan out here bitching about analytics would do well to remember that this beloved team of ours didn’t win shit for eight decades before the team hired the Godfather of Analytics, Bill James, in November 2002.
The umpires are gonna be begging for the robots to take full control of balls and strikes before the All Star break.
Using a political opponent’s death as an opportunity to point out how much more decent a person you are than your political opponents is definitely less gross than celebrating the death of one of your political opponents, but it’s a far cry from noble.
Are faster defenders who are better positioned a part of the problem? Sure, probably. But the real issue is the number of strikeouts, which leads to a decrease in the number of balls in play. Through 1993, doubles were never more than 5.9% of balls in play.
“Imagine there was a curved line in the outfield."
New from me:
The gapper is dead. Doubles hit their lowest rate in 3 decades. Triples are at their lowest rate ever.
So who killed the double & triple? And what can MLB do about it?
nytimes.com/athletic/6856840…
In 1994, the year of the "Happy Haitian", doubles jumped to 6.49% of BIP, from there they inched up to an all-time high of 7.23% in 2019. This past season's 6.51% ranks 28th out of the last 126 season in terms of percentage of BIP that were doubles.
There’s a difference between **not recommending people do a thing** and **recommending people not do a thing.**
It’s incredible that we built the greatest civilization in Earth’s 4.5 billion year history and half of you got the furious, while the other half could only despair.
Nothing makes me wanna burn an American flag more than talk of outlawing the burning of the American flag. In fact, talk of outlawing the burning of the American flag is the only thing that makes me wanna burn an American flag.
Here’s hoping my old friend @ThinSkinFatDude found something better to do today than watch baseball.
Happy to see the guys at Barstool are getting a cookie from #MLBTV while us proles get the shaft.
If, god forbid, Shohei Ohtani were to drop dead tomorrow, would the Hall of Fame waive their 10-year rule and enshrine him?
50%No
50%Yes
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