ST: Orioles vs Blue Jays April 21-23

[BigLeagueChew]

weak attempt at photoshop for the win.

[torontoaces04]

Come on BLC, get us back on track!!

edit - **** Baltimore

[s e n s i]

**** baltimore

[Sifu]

**** Baltimore

[BramptonYute]

**** baltimore

[Tyrone Slothrop]

These **** again? **** 'em.

[Xaos]

**** baltimore

[Greatness]

buck faltimore

[stealthmode]

hoping for a raps and jays win tonight!

[Santoki]

hoping for a raps and jays win tonight!

You know we can't have both. You must choose.

On another note:

Over/Under- How many games does it take to have a pitcher complete 7 innings and give up 2 runs or less? Also, who will that pitcher be?

[Nights King]

Today's actually kind of a big day for baseball, the game could be forever changed. MLB will officially be introducing Statcast, we've been seeing previews for a while and this is a project long time in the making but its unbelievable stuff. You can now literally measure everything that happens on a baseball field. Take the common argument of whether someone took a bad route on a catch, there is literally a stat called route efficiency the calculates the difference between a straight line to the ball and the route a player it takes.

"You can say that was the fifth-fastest run to first, that was the ninth-fastest catch, the best route efficiency this season," Inzerillo said.

"A decade from now, we'll be looking back and saying that was the highest-fourth-decimal point route efficiency that's ever been captured in baseball."

Code was written by a pair of Brazilians with Ph.D. degrees: Claudio Silva, a 45-year-old professor of computer science and engineering and data science at New York University, and Carlos Diedrich, a 36-year-old computer graphics researcher at Modelo who is a consultant for BAM.

"We'll have much better tools to study collections of games rather than individual plays," Silva said. "The next phase of this is trying to study collections of games and what that means for strategy."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ml ... /26097841/

[Lateral Quicks]

hoping for a raps and jays win tonight!

You know we can't have both. You must choose.

On another note:

Over/Under- How many games does it take to have a pitcher complete 7 innings and give up 2 runs or less? Also, who will that pitcher be?

10 games, and it will be Hutchison.

[Michael Bradley]

18 of the next 22 games are against the AL East. The Jays need to start pitching well and winning some games. The two Wild Cards will be tough to get this year. The East is both the best and possibly the likeliest route to the playoffs. Can't afford to dig themselves in a hole against the East.

[rarefind]

**** travis snider & baltimore.

[Fairview4Life]

Today's actually kind of a big day for baseball, the game could be forever changed. MLB will officially be introducing Statcast, we've been seeing previews for a while and this is a project long time in the making but its unbelievable stuff. You can now literally measure everything that happens on a baseball field. Take the common argument of whether someone took a bad route on a catch, there is literally a stat called route efficiency the calculates the difference between a straight line to the ball and the route a player it takes.

"You can say that was the fifth-fastest run to first, that was the ninth-fastest catch, the best route efficiency this season," Inzerillo said.

"A decade from now, we'll be looking back and saying that was the highest-fourth-decimal point route efficiency that's ever been captured in baseball."

Code was written by a pair of Brazilians with Ph.D. degrees: Claudio Silva, a 45-year-old professor of computer science and engineering and data science at New York University, and Carlos Diedrich, a 36-year-old computer graphics researcher at Modelo who is a consultant for BAM.

"We'll have much better tools to study collections of games rather than individual plays," Silva said. "The next phase of this is trying to study collections of games and what that means for strategy."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ml ... /26097841/

But real time balls and strikes are too complicated because reasons.

[Randle McMurphy]

hoping for a raps and jays win tonight!

You know we can't have both. You must choose.

On another note:

Over/Under- How many games does it take to have a pitcher complete 7 innings and give up 2 runs or less? Also, who will that pitcher be?

I'll take a Jays win. If the Raptors get swept in embarrassing fashion by a mediocre Wizards team, there's a chance we could be rid of Casey. Might be the only chance too. Of course, with our luck, the Jays will lose and the Raptors will win (before ultimately losing the series in 6 or 7 games).

I would also guess that Dickey would be the first to do that. Maybe on Friday in Tampa.

[Randle McMurphy]

**** travis snider & baltimore.

Snider doesn't deserve any hate. AA/Cito screwed around with him for years and then the organization dumped him for a quad A scrub.

**** Showalter, though...I'm really beginning to hate that guy.

[tecumseh18]

But real time balls and strikes are too complicated because reasons.

I'm happy not to see that until Martin's contract expires. Otherwise, what are we vastly overpaying him for?

[s e n s i]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/BlueJays/status/590600072448057344[/tweet]

[Lateral Quicks]

No Travis. Most unfortunate.

Goins is fine - valuable even - as the 25th man, but we can't tolerate him starting for long.