Day Time Thread
Not gonna see the game but wanted to give you guys a game time thread. If you can bring yourself to watch this stuff.
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A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
Perhaps, to immortalize No. 28’s enduring contribution to the game, all plays at the plate should be force-outs (SF-only rule).
Perhaps to immortalize your contributions to society, you should be tarred and feathered and dragged down Locust Street.
Fuck you, you fucking fuck. You need a serious old fashioned ass whooping.
So far, baseball replay has had 924 reviews, with 47.3% of the protested calls overturned. As this program moves along, I think somewhere over 50% will eventually be the long term overturn rate, as the replay coaches get better at selecting the plays that look like they are “*overturnable”…
It’s kind of a false number isn’t it? Yes, of the reviewable calls about half have been overturned, but I’d kind of like to see the percentage based on all the calls. So far we have about 120 games played per 15 pairs of teams with a possible 27 outs per game. Wouldn’t that put the umpire out calls at somewhere around 48,600 so far? And that doesn’t count the safe calls, so I bet the math on that puts the overturned calls percentage bellow 1% of all the calls made, which doesn’t sound that bad to me (as far as umpire rulings).
Today’s call at the plate also adds a twist to the numbers, whereas a judgement call overturned a judgement call.
If my math is wrong I’m sure I’ll hear about it, but if the percentage of overturned calls versus all the calls that are made is at one percent or lower, I’d have to think the umps have been doing a better job than any of us have given them credit for.
IMO that kind of analysis gives the umps far too much credit.
The only calls that are protested via replay review are close calls. There is no reason IMO to give umps credit for properly calling a runner that is out or safe by two steps, or a hitter that hits a pop up called out by the infield fly rule or a fly out to center. Any idiot can correctly make those calls, and are no source of controversy. Umps get paid for making the tough, close calls, and calling balls and strikes. So, IMO the most reasonable evaluation of umps’ performance is close call reviews — and how many of those close calls get overturned — which is nearly half, so far…
Sorry snarkk, I disagree with your opinion. I believe you have to compute all calls, each and every mundane call as well as the difficult ones, to evaluate the true performance of the Umps. You can’t disregard a mistake slider that a hitter hits for a HR from his stats, or a broken bat single, it’s all included in the statistical evaluation Look, I understand calling a pop up out is a no brainer but it is part of the thousands of calls these guys make, so I don’t think they should be discounted. My argument excludes the safe calls, which are part of the reviewable statistics, so I am leaving out thousands more calls that should be included for a true performance percentage. Which if included I still believe you are talking one percent, or less, of overturned calls
Also, your percentage is based on reviewable calls, the ones where Ron Wotus gives Boch the thumbs up. The close calls that Dunston is reviewing in the van but gives it a thumbs down are not included in the reported stats, those are close calls not Infield fly rules. Sorry man, I don’t think this process is as successful as MLB would like us to believe.
just when it looked like they were gonna win, dodgers lose…
to me, what replay has shown, is what dipshits managers are. They used to run out there kicking shit, yelling, acting like fools. Turns out they were only correct 47% of the time.
Seems to me, energy spent like that could get used elsewhere……
I don’t know about the Giants, but I’m looking forward to a day off. Nite all.
Tulo season ending hip surgery. lqtm.
Basically 50/50. That’s not surprising, because the calls they make seem like guesses on many of those close plays. Between the sheer speed of the plays and the chance that you don’t quite get a clear line of sight, I don’t see how any ump, no matter how skilled, can reliably make those judgments. It’ll be interesting to see if some individual umps are overturned more frequently than others. I’m betting there won’t be a pattern.
Calling balls and strikes is a different matter.