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I came across this article - and the author has some great points and I wholeheartedly agree with him. We’ve trusted the umps for more than a century - championships have been won and lost, players have gone down in history, children have watched their heroes and baseball has endured, why the change?

Anyway, here is part of his article, you can read the rest at the link at the bottom.

by Josh Millar

Recently, Major League Baseball says it wants to speed up the game. OK, that’s fine. Just have extra bats ready, keep guys in the batters box.

But if baseball wants to speed up the game, it should take a good, hard look in the mirror.

At the start of this decade, MLB decided it wanted to evaluate the performance of their umpires, thus they introduced a system called QuesTech. In simple terms, it measures which pitches are balls and strikes. Doesn’t seem so bad does it?

Little did you know, QuesTech is at the heart of baseball’s pace of game problems.

First off, the evaluation is flawed. The system is based on demerit points, much like your drivers license. If an umpire calls a pitch a strike that QuesTech determines is a ball, the umpire loses a point every time this occurs. However, if the umpire calls a pitch a ball that is actually a strike he does NOT lose a point.

QuesTech is only in selected ballparks, and the umpires know which ones they are, so they call the game based on the system. The evaluation system forces umpires, for their own good, to shrink the strike zone and call more balls. More balls mean more pitches, which increase the possibility of walks. Walks mean more baserunners, and more baserunners slow down the pitchers pace and result in more visits to the mound.

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Originally posted 2008-06-20 20:50:24. We hope you have enjoyed this Post From the Past!

Rounding Third | December 17th, 2008 by DeeB
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