GDT: Braves @ Reds 4/26 (No Camargo)

Enscheff said:
The single most important call replay can get right is a fair/foul HR. It's absurd that there aren't cameras pointed directly at both foul poles.
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I don't always agree with Enscheff...but when I do.....(and I do.) It really seems a total no-brainer. Maybe the TV angle is horribly off, but it sure looks like that ball had to be fair.
 
thethe said:
And to those who are being snarky about Folty vs. Newk well then you just don't know what you're watching.
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The eyes aren’t trivial, but this is the problem with you premising so much on your watching experience: it clouds your judgment. You just aesthetically prefer watching Newcomb, even when he’s failing, to watching Foltynewicz, even when he’s succeeding. The end result is you won’t see Newcomb’s warts, and always blame outside circumstances for his failures, while you exaggerate and over-stress Foltynewicz’s shortcomings, and always account for his successes as luck.
 
Guys I am having an argument with my friend Paul Sporer (from Fangraphs) on twitter about speed. So I have a question for guys like wupk, nsacpi and Enscheff: How much can you infer about a player's speed based off of one single event? Can we infer that Acuna has elite grade speed based off of last night's time of 30.3 ft/sec or is it too small of a sample to learn anything? I was arguing that speed is a more repeatable skill than something like power or hit tool, so if Acuna can run 30.3 ft/sec then that puts him pretty close to the top of the league in sprint speed. He is arguing that we basically learned nothing from that event. I admittedly know very little about speed and how it should be graded and how much sample matters so I could be wrong. Paul is a very smart baseball guy.
 
BeanieAntics said:
Guys I am having an argument with my friend Paul Sporer (from Fangraphs) on twitter about speed. So I have a question for guys like wupk, nsacpi and Enscheff: How much can you infer about a player's speed based off of one single event? Can we infer that Acuna has elite grade speed based off of last night's time of 30.3 ft/sec or is it too small of a sample to learn anything? I was arguing that speed is a more repeatable skill than something like power or hit tool, so if Acuna can run 30.3 ft/sec then that puts him pretty close to the top of the league in sprint speed. He is arguing that we basically learned nothing from that event. I admittedly know very little about speed and how it should be graded and how much sample matters so I could be wrong. Paul is a very smart baseball guy.
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You obviously want more data because more data is obviously better. But you can't luck into running fast. You do need more data to see what his average sprint speed is. One event could either be a top end or low end for example. But Acuna is fast, clearly.
 
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