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Originally Posted by dlphg9
Gotta love baseball and the atrocious ass umpires. What's even better is that there is a clear and simple fix that could very easily fix these issues, but MLB wants to drag their feet.
Having strikes and balls called by an automated system would increase the fairness of the game significantly. That's not even the best thing that would come from an ABS. The best thing would be the end of the stupid ass pitch framing conversation.
Pitch framing is a bunk ass stat that has no real way of being calculated and just tanks Salvador Perez's fWAR and defensive ranking. The guy who has been one olat throwing out base runners has career defense ranking of -9.2 and has had a negative defense ranking in 7 of his 12 seasons according to fangraphs.
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Pitch framing is the dumbest ****ing thing ever created by analytics and I’ll go to my grave saying it. Years in the future (hopefully sooner rather than later) it will be a distant memory when the automated strike zone is used and any catcher whose HOF candidacy was hurt or helped by it, should be re-evaluated and reconsidered.
This is a big reason why I think Sal will be kept out of the HOF, and maybe he gets into eventually, but it won’t happen for several years. If it wasn’t for that stupid ****ing made up bullshit stat, he would have double the amount of Gold Gloves right now.