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An umpire using a headset during the 2019 ALPB All-Star Game.
This Week in Baseball

This Week in Baseball: 11-11-2019

Josh Norris – Baseball America ($): The majority of people have been clamoring for an automated strike zone in Major League Baseball for a while now. It will happen eventually, but I don’t think all the people shouting “robo umps now” quite realize the issues that still plague any automated system. A delay in the […]

Posted on November 11, 2019October 3, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Tim Anderson celebrates a big home run.
This Week in Baseball

This Week in Baseball: 04-29-2019

Baseball Prospectus – Shakeia Taylor: Tim Anderson hit a big home run and he flipped his bat. For that innocuous act, he was thrown at, but the story doesn’t end there. Anderson ended up with a one-game suspension because while yelling at the white child who hit him he called said child the n-word. There’s […]

Posted on April 29, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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