Four Strikes and You're Out

[teebob21]

This article is almost a year old, but I just stumbled across it.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...and-youre-out/

This year, like basically every year, the strike zone is a NCAA POE for umpires. I love me some called third strikes, but I realized I've been as guilty of balling a good marginal pitch on 0-2 as the MLB guys. I'm not sure why that happens...we get paid for outs, not for balls and walks. It may be an effort to avoid a gross miss on strike 3, shrinking that zone down to the size of a sheet of paper. I don't know.

I'm going to add this to my list of things to work on: not just a consistent zone for all games and all batters, but all pitch counts and situations too. More strike 3's for everyone!

[robbie]

Originally Posted by teebob21

This article is almost a year old, but I just stumbled across it.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...and-youre-out/

This year, like basically every year, the strike zone is a NCAA POE for umpires. I love me some called third strikes, but I realized I've been as guilty of balling a good marginal pitch on 0-2 as the MLB guys. I'm not sure why that happens...we get paid for outs, not for balls and walks. It may be an effort to avoid a gross miss on strike 3, shrinking that zone down to the size of a sheet of paper. I don't know.

I'm going to add this to my list of things to work on: not just a consistent zone for all games and all batters, but all pitch counts and situations too. More strike 3's for everyone!

That's odd. Indiana we get payed to umpire the whole game..............

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by robbie

That's odd. Indiana we get payed to umpire the whole game..............

Nope. you do not get paid for calling balls and safe, unless it is the winning run that ends the game

Then again, you did say you were in Indiana