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I have been a sports journalist since 1987, and have worked for national newspapers in the UK and New Zealand. I spent four years as digital sports editor of the Press Association in the UK.
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As Portishead sang in 'It Could Be Sweet', "You don't get something for nothing." That's as true in baseball as it is in life.…
When San Francisco Giants ace Madison Bumgarner threw a complete-game shutout against the Diamondbacks in his team's final game before the All Star break,…
Toronto's Chris Colabello was one of the more remarkable successes of the 2015 MLB season. What happened to him even before this season began,…
"...And for the fourth time in seven years, the San Francisco Giants have won the World Series." Come October, this will be the call…
There are a lot of people who feel the way your friends do, Joe.
The reasons why it may just happen are: a) they brought in Instant Replay and it worked; b) they’ve changed the rules subsequently in a way that significantly changed what both baserunners and fielders have to do. I haven’t heard too many people complain about the results.
The automated strike zone: will MLB allow the right calls to be made on home plate?
I will try to find out the answer to that, Linphoma.
Meantime, I must admit one glaring error in my piece, which was my math.
The 15 per cent error rate is right, but when you extrapolate that over a full MLB regular season the total I came up with was WAAAAY off.
Let’s figure around 290 pitches thrown per game.
15 per cent being 43.5, times the 2,430 games.
That comes to more than 100,000 wrong calls on balls and strikes!
The automated strike zone: will MLB allow the right calls to be made on home plate?