Matt Schepel

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@alixonmartinez2 @DerekHuffSB

@Scheps5 @DerekHuffSB Injured season.. you are a sad little man… letook at the whole career and tell me

How to fix D3 baseball?? Allow them to give athletic scholarships… Easy, simple.. a student/athlete’s life is crazy busy.. not having any incentive to play it’s crazy to me..

@alixonmartinez2 @DerekHuffSB

@DerekHuffSB Lol.. I was that good kid..

I’ve always felt like using cones, promotes the spinning in place. To break-plant-separate you actually have to go past the cone farther. It feels unnatural to run farther past the cone to be faster, so players spin around the cone instead. I always had my WRs go to the cone instead of around it.

Makai Lemon knows how to break-plant-separate smoothly. He’s the first receiver. See the rest? Spinning in place. You should never spin in place when the route is predetermined with zero resistance. Yet so many coaches drill cone drills that reinforce spinning… x.com/i/status/20502…

@Mike_kim714 @Cadillac 19

Whoever guesses my courtesy car number first gets tickets to the @Cadillac championship or if you can’t come this one, the closest tournament to you

@SamEhrlich @Tstokey @drivelinekyle Thanks!

@Scheps5 @Tstokey @drivelinekyle Contact zone is the same for each player. It’s the middle 6 points in our 18 point bat path reconstruction. The contact point (line drawn from the ground up) is different for each path based on their avg point of contact

Obviously added bat speed, but big emphasis on improving the bat path has paid off for Amed. Good player 📈📈📈

I made a new hitter grading tool Core 4 hitting grades & overall Hitting+ Check it out here: barrel-lab.base44.app

@theaceofspaeder A bowling pin is 4.75 inches wide. A bowling ball is 8.5 inches wide. So using the same math Ryan did to say the strike zone is not 17 inches wide. That means a bowling pin is actually 21.75 inches wide.

If you give the pitcher the ball that skims the zone on both sides the strike zone is no longer 17 inches wide, it is effectively *22.8* inches wide. I’m sorry that so many of you cannot understand this, but I wouldn’t expect you to—you spend too much time on reddit and watching anime. All of you meme accounts think that you look up the rule from the handbook that I have memorized and think that because of that you are learned on baseball, but you are wrong. That is NOT how it was called for the last decade-plus. No umpire was gifting a pitcher both sides off the plate. None of that even matters though, there is a fundamental issue present when, for example, an umpire who has a bit of a tight-inside zone calls a "strike" on a pitch that was probably too far in an out of the zone but it goes unchallenged, because it is early in the count and the player cannot risk the chance that he was wrong for a one or two strike pitch (even though he wasn't). These pitches establish the zone, both inside and out. Then later in the same at-bat, a pitch on the far outside nicks the zone (as the one in the original post did), it is called a ball due to the established zone, and ABS flips it. This is unreasonable to me, and it is unreasonable expectation. This is a fair, accurate, and just criticism of a system that is far from perfect.

@theaceofspaeder The strike zone is 17 inches wide. The pitcher has a 19.9 inch horizontal window that they can throw the ball in, to touch the 17 inch strike zone.

@Scheps5 I’ve chance my mind after looking at this again. It’s 22.8 inches—as we’d have to measure from outside of a ball to outside of a ball. Doesn’t really matter, though. It’s not 17”—that’s for sure.

Since 2021 there have been 331 barrels and 279 home runs on pitches in the chase zone. I think the strike zone is just fine as is Ryan.

@theaceofspaeder If you take a pitch that clips the left edge of the zone, and move it 19.2 inches to the right, it would clip the right edge of the zone. Hence 19.2 inches

@Scheps5 Matt, you are wrong. Both sides. ~2.9 inches (L) | 17 inches (M) | ~2.9 inches (R) So try again.

@theaceofspaeder Actually it would be effectively 19.9 inches

@Scheps5 Then stop calling the strike zone 17 inches.

@Manach_38 @RobertStock6 If you ignore that last year, in 0-2 counts vs left handed pitching he hit .091 with a 52% K rate, then yes you are correct bunting was dumb.

@RobertStock6 If we ignore that a foul bunt results in an out then yes you're correct.

Lefty batter vs great LHP in an 0-2 count and the situation means a single and a homerun are effectively the same outcome. This is not a bad strategy, just a bad result.

@batcluberik The ABS strike zone more accurately reflects how umpires were calling the strike zone, than the actual rule book strike zone. Aka the umpires weren’t calling the strike zone by the rule book either

So essentially some of the pitches that are just missing with ABS are actually strikes. I don’t quite understand why we removed the human element to just not call the rulebook strike zone.

@PitchingNinja @tangotiger As are you! I need to order the book you just wrote asap!

@Scheps5 @tangotiger Extremely informative...and he's fantastic resource in general!

For all of those who are wondering why the ABS zone isn’t 3d and is located in the middle of the plate. If you are confused on the zone and why it is the way it is. Go look at @tangotiger tweets. They are very informative

@michael_chirico @JohnnyGiunta_ So that means there would still be statistical uncertainty on whether the ball was 49% or 50% in the strike zone. This doesn’t fix “the problem” it just changes the size of the strike zone.

@JohnnyGiunta_ bad analogy there's no statistical uncertainty with the foul pole

Someone tweeted at me one of the funniest scenarios with the logic people have with the “50% baseball in the zone” rule and I can’t stop thinking about it: Imagine hitting a baseball off the foul pole and instead of calling it a home run they calculate if 50% of the ball hit it

If that’s the case, if the umpire calls a pitch a ball, the strike zone shrinks. If the umpire calls the pitch a strike, the strike zone gets bigger. And either way you will still have calls decided by 1mm. So now we have a dynamic strike zone size, and still have balls and strikes decided by 1mm. I know you aren’t agreeing with his idea. I’m just pointing out how dumb of an idea it is lol

@Scheps5 @KFCBarstool Doesn’t make zone smaller bc the reverse is true too, where if a ball is called a strike but barely out it would stay a strike. ABS margin of error is .5 in, so many players favor anything within .5 in of a ball staying a ball & anything within .5 in of a strike staying a strike

That pitch the other day that was like right over the whole ass plate? Great ABS. This? Succccccks. I know this can’t be the rule but it should almost be the ball has to be in the zone a certain amount. One millimeter touching the zone are toss up calls that should stay that way