Should the Minor League Challenge System Come to MLB?

[@DRock40]

I’d love to see an umpire do a mask flip when he got a call right when a pitch got challenged 😂

[@michelleschrom4234]

I paused this to watch the Colbert in Wrigley video, and that was FUNNY. He sure does like your trunk, Happer. 😂 but who doesn’t - takes a lot of squats 👀

[@rturner8384]

I love being able to see these guys' faces! They are so sweet, young and intelligent! I was listening 🎶 on Spotify previously. Love this show and each of your input! ☕️ ☕️ ☕️

[@pjbuma13]

It started out as 3 challenges and only recently changed to 2 for BS pace of play reasons. Like you guys said it takes all of five seconds. So what takes longer say you get half your challenges right and half wrong so let’s say six challenges per team happened in a game vs a player getting upset with a call having words with the umpire and getting tossed and then the manager coming out and talking to the umpire . Like that whole scenario probably takes anywhere from 4-5 mins if I had to guess whereas 12 challenges would take a total of about 1-2 mins spread out throughout the game. Also now we are getting more calls right and not having umpires affecting an outcome of a game. And players are staying in games and not getting ejected. If I had to guess I would say arguing balls and strikes is probably the number one reason for ejections. And don’t we want the players on the field as much as possible? Isnt that what the fans are paying to see?

[@martenmcfly]

Javy's HR 107.4mph 36LA 381ft Home Run 30/30

[@closerchris1]

Nothing on Ian's hit on Colbert last night?

[@bnegs521]

Yes immediately!!

[@aduncaroo]

Yes it should. Like yesterday

[@poodawg]

What does anti locking brake systems have to do with baseball

[@jenabbas5380]

Everybody has to go check the clip of the Late Show with Colbert - Great Cubby Footage!

[@Gramatix119]

13:30 you can “produce the podcast” without interrupting someone who is actually making a good thought it happens at least twice an episode (happened again later in this one) and is one of the only things i dislike about the entire show great ep as always guys

[@corywilson2007]

Hey Tom while your sitting in silence you could do something and write down the time codes and topics. Don't know if your aware but KZbin has a function that let's you include time codes.

[@MexGorilla]

I fought for no kickers in my fantasy league. The only way that I'd keep kickers if we increased their value.

[@baileysmith4744]

how baseball needs to be going forward - no pitch clock. players will adjust the pace of the game without there being a bunch of rules in place to force it - no extra inning base runners. its simply not baseball - no ABS. human error is part of the game, and there is no way to determine what is an accurate zone as the rules state the dimensions of a strikezone are what the umpire believes it to be. that is literally the rule. more often than not the umpires are right and the players are wrong anyways - no limits to pickoffs. pitchers werent even picking off that much anyways, and if youre going to give runners bigger bases to work with, they dont need more advantage - no inning minimum for starters. incentivise innings with bonuses and making award voting favour innings pitched more than strikeouts. guys who throw more innings should be considered more valuable in the system, but they arent because its "boring"

[@johnlenon8872]

There are around 290 pitches per game and the umps are missing about 8 percent of them, roughly. That is about 23 pitches per game. If it is important to determine if a home run is fair, and that happens about what, every 30 games? Or if a guy is safe at 2nd? And we spend endless minutes looking at replays? Then players and managers get ejected arguing that the ump blew the call, and he did, Why not at least try to make sure the thing that happens more than anything (a thrown pitch) is accurate? MLB wants to speed up the game but many times a week there are ejections and that slows the game down alot. If you can get it right and avoid ejections (who argues with a computer robot) A 1-1 pitch called a strike when it is a ball completely changes the AB from 2-1 to 1-2. Strike Three?! Let's Check in on Umpire Accuracy FanGraphs Baseball blogs.fangraphs.com › strike-three-lets-check-in-o... Search for: How accurate are MLB umpires on balls and strikes? Have umpires been worse this year? So far this season, umpires have gotten 92.46% of calls right, down from 92.81% in 2023 and just two thousandths of a percentage point higher than in 2022. Based on everything I've shown you, we should expect umpires to get better over the rest of the season.May 29, 2024

[@8bitdee]

Happ, I love you but it’s time to let go and go full shaved head. Nothing wrong with accepting and rocking the bald head look. You got the beard to make it work.

[@johnlenon8872]

Happer, this comes from bleedcubbieblue. Good metric to pass on to the boys: Bottom line: You guys are whiffing too much looking at strikes....or something an inch or two outside. For you personally, next time you get an inside heater with two strikes and it is an inch inside? Turn on it and rope it over the fence. Or pull it foul and live to fight another day. Don't take it. Umps are pumping you and all of the big leaguers on anything close. Check out team stats and individual Cubs' stats and compare to what the other teams are doing. In some cases, it's not as bad as I thought, and in others you guys are getting jobbed. Suzuki in particular is getting hosed as you already know, but he and you can't afford to take those close ones. You two need to lead this team to the playoffs. Let's go. STRIKEOUT LOOKING PERCENTAGE Finally, I calculated the percentage of each team's strikeouts that were called. I was surprised to find that only 23.2 percent of the Cubs' whiffs were looking and not swinging -- fewer than 1 in 4. They are tied with the Athletics for the 10th lowest percentage of called strikeouts, behind the Braves, at 22.9, and ahead of the Astros, at 23.4. Just 19.6 percent of the Marlins' strikeouts were called, and 20.0 percent of the Guardians. The Mets (21.3), Orioles (21.5) and Red Sox (21.7) round out the top 5. The bottom 5 are the Nationals (26.6), Giants (26.5), Rangers (25.8), Angeles (25.7) and Brewers (25.4). The combined percentage of the 29 other teams is 23.7, which is 0.5 higher than the Cubs' 23.2. .......... INDIVIDUAL CUBS I also determined the number of called third strikes among the total strikeouts for each of the 10 current Cubs who have struck out at least 40 times. Their combined percentage is 25.8, more than 2 percentage points above the average for the 29 other teams. Five of the 10 individually exceeded that average. 4 of the 5 did so by substantial amounts: Seiya Suzuki, 32.2 percent Michael Busch, 32.1 Nico Hoerner, 31.5 Patrick Wisdom, 30.4 Collectively, they have been called out 31.8 percent of their at bats, 8.6 percentage points higher than the percentage of the 29 other teams. And that 31.8 is 12.8 percentage points above the percentage of all other Cubs, 19.0! ... Here are the strikeout percentage, strikeouts looking and total strikeouts by each of the 10 Cubs with at least 40 strikeouts: 32.2: Suzuki (38 of 118) 32.1: Busch (43 of 134) 31.5: Hoerner (17 of 54) 30.4: Wisdom (14 of 46) 25.9: Pete Crow-Armstrong (15 of 58) 23.4: Dansby Swanson (26 of 111) 23.3: Mike Tauchman (14 of 60) 22.4: Ian Happ (30 of 134) 16.4: Cody Bellinger (11 of 67) 13.5: Miguel Amaya (7 of 52) All other batters this season are 19.0 (137 of 722).