Good article looking at called balls and strikes. Carp had 294 strikes called that were out of the zone. 210 of them low and away where you have no chance to hit.
Looking at this analysis pitchers shouldn't complain to much about umpiring. 1 out 3 called strikes are out of the zone. MLB really needs to take steps to improve this. Especially now with the unlimited technology. It's making them look bad. As the article states, umps set up on the inside of catchers and they can't see that low and away corner. It's even worse when the catcher moves inside too. I've seen pitches where the ump was over behind the batters box. I suppose they're trying to get a better view of up or down. I'm not 100% but I think I'd like to see them line up directly behind the plate even if they have to be a little higher to see over the catcher. That should allow getting in/out more accurate. I'd think that would be more fair to hitters. There might be more low pitches missed but those aren't as hard to deal with as ones way outside that they can't even reach. I'd at least like to see it experimented with to see how it went.
Hitting a moving baseball is hard enough by itself. Having to worry about pitches out of the legal zone just makes it that much tougher. If they want to see more action balls and strikes need to be called more accurately. Force pitchers to thrwo actual strikes. Would Gregg Maddux be in the hall if all those pitches off the plate had been called correctly?
Just something to talk about while nothing else is going on.
http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2014/12/1/7312469/how-the-st-louis-cardinals-fared-with-the-strike-zone-in-2014
Looking at this analysis pitchers shouldn't complain to much about umpiring. 1 out 3 called strikes are out of the zone. MLB really needs to take steps to improve this. Especially now with the unlimited technology. It's making them look bad. As the article states, umps set up on the inside of catchers and they can't see that low and away corner. It's even worse when the catcher moves inside too. I've seen pitches where the ump was over behind the batters box. I suppose they're trying to get a better view of up or down. I'm not 100% but I think I'd like to see them line up directly behind the plate even if they have to be a little higher to see over the catcher. That should allow getting in/out more accurate. I'd think that would be more fair to hitters. There might be more low pitches missed but those aren't as hard to deal with as ones way outside that they can't even reach. I'd at least like to see it experimented with to see how it went.
Hitting a moving baseball is hard enough by itself. Having to worry about pitches out of the legal zone just makes it that much tougher. If they want to see more action balls and strikes need to be called more accurately. Force pitchers to thrwo actual strikes. Would Gregg Maddux be in the hall if all those pitches off the plate had been called correctly?
Just something to talk about while nothing else is going on.
http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2014/12/1/7312469/how-the-st-louis-cardinals-fared-with-the-strike-zone-in-2014
