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Originally Posted by johnnyg08
Umpires are not judged on obvious strikes or balls. There's probably a bit more to it...but my point is that you have to get your money pitches. If you get 10 correct that are cock shots, and miss one border one, 90% is not a true indictor of how good of a job you're doing. Let's take 10 border pitches and say you got 9 of them right, now that's a nice job.
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Agree. But the pfx graphs linked in Rich's post above capture a lot of pitches that are your so-called "cock shots".
A better assessment would include the graphic display of only those border pitches, plus the no-brainers that the umpire still got wrong.
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Fri Oct 12, 2012, 10:46am
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