Tangotiger
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MLBAM Senior Data Architect Website http://www.tangotiger.com Co-author of The Book, with limited free access from - Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/tangotiger - Google Books: http://tinyurl.com/tangotiger2
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BUNT RATE, since 1969
Runner on 2B only, 0 outs
Home Team Bunting, Down by 1
9th or Extra Innings
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First change Jane makes: everyone 10 years old and younger gets in for free, when accompanied by an adult (upper deck seating I think was implied)

Jane notes that baseball is in a good position to do this because of its inventory
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The mindset of these batters is why pitchers have the success they do
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A really horrible at bat by Bryce

Take, take, take guys
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Smart take
Foolish swing
Really silly swing, c'mon Bryce
Another bad swing
Finally takes

Should be walk
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5 pitches, 1 strike, which Schwarber foolishly swung at

Take, take, take

Bryce is too smart to swing, let's see
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That's 4 straight balls to Turner, somehow 2-2

Now 6 straight

Like I said: take, take, take
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Third time thru, which Snell has a tough time with

Take, take, take

Instead, first pitch wild swing
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As predicted, McDavid did indeed sign short-term

However, rather than signing 2/38 or 3/57 deal (after which hed sign 8/190 deal), he instead signs 2/25! Hes gifting Oilers 13 million dollars

Only reason to do this, is like with young Crosby gifting Penguins non-max deal: bigger chance of Cup now
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I'm not fully up on the NHL contract situation, much less how it may change after the next CBA, but there's a reason McDavid is talking about short term deals

Consider how the salary cap has gone up recently and expected to explode in 2027-28

If I understand the rules, McDavid signing...
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One of the best viewing experiences I had was watching three Olympic hockey games in span of 6 hours

I've also seen a 5-hour match involving any two of Federer, Nadal, Djokovic

What really matters is lack of dead time

Johnny Carson at the Oscars: We have a great 2-hour show... spread over 4 hours
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I watched four MLB playoff games in a day just like I do every October.

IMO the massively improved pace of baseball as seen on Saturday makes the entire experience significantly more pleasurable than it was 5-10 years ago.
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That's why they're professionals and we're not
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Every batter who is 180.0 cm tall gets an identical strike zone

I don't know how to make it any clearer
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You can try asking me a dozen other ways as well, and my answer will remain the same!
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When I run it since 2021, we don't see these big changes. So, I think the lesson is: beware Random Variation!

So, lots more work to be done here...
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The strike zone will be set based on batter height
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These are two unique strike zones, from same batter in same game

By rulebook, these are two different strike zones: 8 inch difference at top, 4 inch difference at bottom

In ABS world, one strike zone / batter / season

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Excellent point! Easy enough to figure

In open air, curve is 0.15 runs per 100 pitches in favour of batter. With roof closed: curve is 0.03 runs in favour of pitcher

Others favour the pitcher with roof closed:
splitter by 0.20 runs
4-seamer by 0.10

Open-air:
slider 0.12
sinker 0.10
change 0.11
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Statcast Lab: Relative Run Values by Pitch Type

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Pure camera based is the standard

So, better to say hand timing is faster
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That was a 4.02 from the right side (with Statcast timing, which is usually a little slower than hand-timing)...Elly was FLYING
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That's a good subtitle

The main title:

The U0nintentional Banana Ball Catch
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I’m going to write a book and the book is going to be called “Did He Actually Make A Great Catch, or Did He Just Take A Stupid Ass Route To The Ball At First And He Had To Go To Extraordinary Lengths To Correct It?”

Currently seeking a publisher
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Unfortunately, it's all believed to be about guts and heart and who-wants-it-more

And the determination of that is always done after the fact
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After the series is over half of them will say

I told you so

The other half will say

They need to fix X
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I've seen people say the Reds have the advantage because they can play free of expectations and other people say the Dodgers have the advantage because they've been there before.
Xkcd cartoon titled "All Sports Commentary". 

Two characters are taking. First one says, "A weighted random number generator just produced a new batch of numbers." The other replies, "Let's use them to build narratives!"
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We've come a loooooong way
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Thinking about how Carl Yastrzemski won the 1968 AL Batting Title hitting .301 and what the discourse must have been like