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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Monday, October 18, 2021Arizona Fall League experiments gone awry, plus notes on Spencer Torkelson, Brett Baty and more: Keith LawSub required.
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Posted: October 18, 2021 at 10:47 AM | 19 comment(s)
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1. . . . . . . Posted: October 18, 2021 at 12:44 PM (#6047158)This seems like a silly complaint. The process is being tested in the AFL, you can only test the process if you USE the process. If you let Torkelson hit there there is no real incentive for him to follow the rule which lets you know if it's working. If only two guys got penalized for it all weekend it sounds like it's not particularly intrusive which is a good thing.
We need fewer walks and we need hitters sitting on meatballs less.
Paywalled so I can't determine that.
It's better than dumping it on major league players in the middle of the season, but it's not great. The only reason to do it this way, rather than testing this out in major league preseason games, would be to evaluate whether it's something that can be discussed and potentially implemented next season. In that case, I think this is the best way to do it, even if it does impact the kids adversely. If it's a certainty that none of these changes will be implemented in 2022, then there's no reason to test it here; test it in MLB and MiLB preseason games.
The umpires have an easily identifiable correct call rate in the upper 90th percentile. Blaming umpires is lazy and wrong.
Even if this is indicative of what's happening, isn't the whole point of this to try this out in games that don't actually matter?
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