The Official Forum

The Official Forum (https://forum.officiating.com/)
-   Softball (https://forum.officiating.com/softball/)
-   -   Strike Zone (https://forum.officiating.com/softball/51223-strike-zone.html)

MichaelVA2000 Mon Jan 26, 2009 09:21pm

Strike Zone
 
Interesting article from The Hardball Times. Look for: That was a strike?
by Josh Kalk


http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...-was-a-strike/

Would you welcome this technology at the college and high school level?

wadeintothem Mon Jan 26, 2009 10:08pm

Your link doesnt work. There are about a billion links on that page and I cant find this article.

BretMan Mon Jan 26, 2009 10:25pm

Link is also posted on the Bseball Forum and that link worked for me.

wadeintothem Mon Jan 26, 2009 10:33pm

Very interesting
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...t-was-a-strike
I dont know if my link will work any better.

Let be said that I have often backed up Angel Hernandez to the BB guys who hate him, and not just cuz he has great softball mechanics either. ;)

I would love to have my strike zone checked in that manner. I believe, as with MLB umpires, any computerized tracking of our calls would show that umpires with pride and training are mostly correct. Those that dont care would be exposed.

IRISHMAFIA Tue Jan 27, 2009 08:04am

Quote:

Originally Posted by wadeintothem (Post 572729)
any computerized tracking of our calls would show that umpires with pride and training are mostly correct.

But that's not good enough. You need to be better than perfect. Ever notice in any sport broadcast and subsequent talking head shows that they find one out of hundreds of plays that may or may not have been accurate, and they hang there hat on that play. Some of these morons are showing a replay of a pitch an inning later. Where are the replays of all the good calls.

Actually, I think if they applied a computer-generated analyzation of umpire's strike zone, they may discover that, by the book, the umpire is not calling enough strikes.

MichaelVA2000 Tue Jan 27, 2009 04:46pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA (Post 572792)
But that's not good enough. You need to be better than perfect.

As Jim Evans says:

"Even when umpiring your first game, you are expected to be perfect and get better every game you umpire."

NCASAUmp Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:25pm

I'd love to see them try and analyze the SP strike zone...


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 10:05am.



Search Engine Friendly URLs by vBSEO 3.3.0 RC1