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fWAR:
2010 - Heyward 4.7, Davis -0.7
2011 - Heyward 1.9, Davis -0.5
2012 - Heyward 6.5, Davis 2.1
2013 - Davis 7.0, Heyward 3.4
2014 - Heyward 5.2, Davis 0.8
2015 - Heyward 6.0, Davis 5.6
bWAR:
2010 - Heyward 6.4, Davis -0.5
2011 - Heyward 2.5, Davis -0.1
2012 - Heyward 5.8, Davis 1.6
2013 - Davis 6.5, Heyward 3.7
2014 - Heyward 6.2, Davis 1.8
2015 - Heyward 6.5, Davis 5.2
Davis turns 30 before the season. Heyward doesn't turn 27 until August. Both get $23M/season. Heyward gets 1 more season.
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This is not some silly theory that's unsupported and deserves being mocked by photos of Xena.
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This is not some silly theory that's unsupported and deserves being mocked by photos of Xena.
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Quote:http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/145995...home-plate
Money quote:
Quote:We have planes that make thousands of imperceptible course directions accurately and without human contact. We have machines that fabricate transistors for CPUs so small that they are only a few atoms wide. We have mapped out the human genome, the very building blocks of our existence. Yet somehow, in baseball, identifying where a white sphere crosses a white pentagon a couple of feet away is some monumental technological challenge? Poppycock.
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I agree with both changes (computer strikezone and protection from dugout to dugout). Both seem simple enough to implement.
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Yep. Agree.
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In. And In.
In on balls and strikes. Definitely in on extending the protection.
Oddly, I think three or four years ago I'd argue against either change.
I can't explain why the change in my thinking.
I grew up? I put down some teddy bears? What's next? Will I someday favor a NL DH?
Not understanding my process (or knowing what other silly opinions I'm clinging to) is a bit unnerving.
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I don't see pitchers getting onboard with this. Especially how umps "interpret" an outside strike. More times than not the pitcher gets the benefit of the doubt. Arrieta in the Wild Card game comes to mind. He pitched lights out, but he was getting great calls as well.
Also, pitchers will no longer benefit from a good framing catcher, which goes along with what I mentioned above.
I think we'll see a bump in offensive numbers if this would ever go into affect.
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I'd be curious to see whether pitchers get more calls in their favor or more calls that should be strikes that are called balls. I'd guess it evens out, but veteran pitchers get the benefit of the doubt more often. Just like veteran batters often get the benefit of the doubt. If we're able to call them 100% accurately, it should be a no-brainer.
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I'd bet WAY more pitched off the plate get called strikes than pitches over the plate get called balls.
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IIRC pitchfx is used today after the game. The ump gets a report to go over that shows where he made calls that the system disagrees with. (And I bet Straw is right about the making most errors in the pitcher's favor. The batter seems to get more veteran-of-the-doubt with check swings to me, Butch) The idea is to school up each umpire, and over a given time period the league monitors that improvement.
My memory of it is hazy because I read about this in my pre-Cub days. (I think they beta tested pitchfx at Fenway (and Toronto?) in 2005 or 06, so there was a lot of scuttlebutt/fear about how it would be used. )
They'll need to try out using pitchfx during the game, like in the minors for a while, before they figure out exactly how to bring it online. Here is something that Sportvision tried last year.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-auto...story.html
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Here is a good article on the effect of pitchfx on umps, pitchers, hitters and games. So far.
http://www.hardballtimes.com/the-strike-...tchfx-era/
"The strike zone has been changing since the possibility arose of grading umpires with newly installed pitch-tracking technology. Presumably, MLB has backed these changes, as it has the tools to direct umpires to call the strike zone differently."
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