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Dodgers fan #7 ha scritto: 11/10/2021, 19:53

Tony sarebbe LaRussa se qualcuno avesse dei dubbi.

Hobbit83 ha scritto: 15/10/2021, 9:07 Come mai tutta sta fretta?
Ha avuto rapporti col coach dei Raiders?

Wolviesix ha scritto: 04/09/2021, 13:28 76.

Wolviesix ha scritto: 15/10/2021, 15:21 Ho messo la faccina apposta per dire che era una semplice puntualizzazione e che "venivo in pace" senza nessun intento secondario. Non abbastanza evidentemente.
Se vogliamo fare il gioco del "portare alla discussione" potevi tranquillamente mandarmi questo chiarimento in privato.

The Saturday night game at Salt River Fields, the spring home of the Diamondbacks and Rockies, exemplifies the entire problem. The game used the automated strike zone, a variable pitch clock and a ban on shifts. The result was a game that was called after seven and a half innings over three excruciating hours because the teams ran out of pitchers. Why did they run out of pitchers in just seven and a half innings, you ask? Because the pitchers they did use walked 22 guys.

 I’m an advocate of moving away from a human-called strike zone, which is going to be biased by its very nature, to an automated one, but this year’s experiments in what was once the Florida State League, and now here in the AFL, have shown that simply turning on HAL 2021 isn’t going to be enough. It turns out that the real strike zone is a lot smaller than what umpires called, especially on the horizontal axis (inside or outside). A whole lot of pitches that were probably 1 to 3 inches off the outside corner and had some chance of being called strikes from a human were, of course, called balls — and while that wasn’t solely responsible for the game’s three-walks-per-inning pace, it didn’t help matters. 

 Taking away the shift didn’t help matters, since the entire purpose of positioning defenders that way is to reduce the rate of balls in play that become hits, which in turn will make games longer. And then there’s the pitch clock, which at least two of the umpires — the one Saturday night and the one at the night game in Peoria on Friday — decided would allow them to have their Big Moment in the spotlight. They couldn’t wait to call balls or strikes the millisecond the pitch clock expired and let everyone in the park know that they had just rung up Spencer Torkelson. The AFL is a scouting and developmental league, and if you can tell me how any scouting or development purpose was served by Torkelson striking out rather than facing a two-strike pitch from Hans Crouse I would love to hear it.