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Braves Ongoing Season Comments Thread..
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I’ll say this about flowers behind the plate. He focuses a lot more on pitch framing than receiving, and this is why he sometimes looks really bad. He tries to steal strikes and sometimes just whiffs the pitch. But he steals strikes really well, and the metrics love his framing ability. And framing is considered to be a really important skill for catchers, much more so than throwing out runnners for example (Tbh I’m not super sure how they quantify or weigh it but I do know from other message boards framing plays a big part in catcher FWAR).
Dont think he’s been very good this year, but hope that helps keep things in context for you guys.
Speaking of balls and strikes, the umpire tonight was bass ackwards on a lot of calls. He called balls strikes and strikes balls more than I've seen in awhile.
I missed tonight's game, but I'm sure he couldn't hold a candle to Eric Gregg. RIP.
In a single at bat in the 8th inning tonight's ump called 3 strikes balls and a ball a strike over 4 straight pitches.
FYI, If The Braves go just 7-8 the rest of the regular season Washington will have to win out to tie for the division title (18-0)
Just another reason balls and strikes should be called by the system of triangulated lasers already in place. The umps would still have a role, just not the power to steal games.
Not sure why framing "fools" umpires. It seems so obvious on TV.
A lot different perspective on where we the fans and the umpire view pitches from. But last night I agree with @WCDawg, so many strikes were called balls and vice versa.
I didn't catch the whole game, but thought Flowers did not frame the ball well at all last night.
It makes no sense why it's not in place at this day and age. I figured it might take a few years since being established in other sports like tennis, but now it's been forever making me wonder if they'll ever change it. Maybe the league likes the vast differences in strike zones from game to game? One ump has a small strike zone, the next day it's a big zone, next day a wide zone, next day a tall zone, and then yesterday a zone that's moving all over the place.
The announcers did make a good point about that a couple of times. Flow was set up low and outside. Pitch missed the target and was on the inside corner of the strike zone. Even though in the zone he had to lunge a bit to catch it. The extra movement adds to the perception of the pitch being even more inside. @WCDawg 's laser proposal would fix that, though. Can we take the laser strike zone back to the 97 playoff series against the Marlins and re-play it?
It does make the ability to adapt/adjust t important for pitchers. Does anyone know how the robot strike zone adjusts for different height batters?
I'm sure they can just enter the batters' height and it would adjust accordingly. Batters would have to be measured by the MLB, so that Aaron Judge doesn't say he's 5'6".
As I understand it There is a metric used that uses a batter's dimensions and stance into account. It always looks about right to these eyes.
Good news and bad news for Braves today. Good news - Markakis is back in lineup tonight, playing left field and batting fifth. Bad news - Camargo has fractured shin and is likely done for the season. Would be nice to have the switch-hitting Camargo available for the post-season, but doesn’t seem likely.