Good Lee Judge

I know this is a few days old, but this sort of information is fascinating to me.

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Bon apetit

Good hitters get calls.

. Makes intuitive sense, but has anyone done a study on this now that we have Pitch f/x data?

Anyway, if you want to impress the people around you at the next Royals game (and who doesn’t?), pull out a stopwatch and time how long it takes a pitcher to deliver to home plate.

Royals fans are easily impressed.

As you can see, one tenth of a second is a big deal.

Is one tenth of a second recorded by a guy with a stopwatch even accurate? I can’t remember where I read it, I think it was Gregg Easterbrook, but it seems ridiculous with how much human error we have in this world, that we somehow think we can be precise enough to record times on a stopwatch to the tenth of a second. Really?

A pitcher who takes a deep breath in the set position is probably about to throw the ball to the plate.

That is probably true.

The Royals’ new pitching coach, Dave Eiland, was Kevin Costner’s body double in the movie "For Love of the Game."

That IS interesting!

I dunno, seems like a lot of that was stuff a non-baseball fan would write if he was just learning about the game of baseball. But there were some decent tidbits.

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by RoyalsRetro on Feb 15, 2012 3:12 PM EST reply actions

It was Easterbrook

He rails on hand-timed 40 times a lot in his NFL columns. And I’m sure he’s right. I don’t care how “in tune” a scout may think he is with his favorite stopwatch, one-tenth of a second is almost imperceptible to humans (not to mention hundredths of a second, which makes comparing a 4.32 40 to a 4.35 40 patently ridiculous).

by Sweep_the_Leg on Feb 15, 2012 3:22 PM EST up reply actions

This should have been called "Lee's Traditional Baseball Orthodoxy Sampler Platter"

Much of it is true. Some of it likely is not. Virtually none of it has been tested. But Lee heard it from real baseball men like Russ Morman, so it must be true, and who are you to question it?

You may know me as NYRoyal.

by Scott McKinney on Feb 15, 2012 3:34 PM EST up reply actions

As a kid

I so badly wanted the Royals to give Russ Morman a shot.

Relive Royals History at royalsretro.blogspot.com

by RoyalsRetro on Feb 15, 2012 3:36 PM EST up reply actions

Because he was a local guy?

HS in Independence and college at Wichita State?

You may know me as NYRoyal.

by Scott McKinney on Feb 15, 2012 3:40 PM EST up reply actions

Yep!

Also he always seemed to mash at AAA.

And I was like 10.

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by RoyalsRetro on Feb 15, 2012 4:05 PM EST up reply actions

did you still like pop-tarts?

"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell

by buddyball on Feb 15, 2012 4:43 PM EST up reply actions

I used to swim competitively when they still used mechanical stop-watches...

and they generally used three human timers and took the average of the 3 because of the varience. Often there would be as much as a half-second difference between the lowest and highest time. Then mechanical watches were replaced with digital touchpads. Interestingly, the touchpads used to time to the 1000th of a second, but discontinued it becuase the placement of the pads could affect your time by several thousandths of a second.

Unless he or she was behind home plate and a likely scout, someone who pulled out a stopwatch at a game would only impress me as a jackass who was trying to impress people around them who didn’t know much about timing things by hand, and probably baseball, in general.

If women only slept with nice guys...guys would only be nice. And they don't. And we're not.

by setupunchtag on Feb 15, 2012 5:02 PM EST up reply actions