If I had to guess, the crowd plays a part, but a bigger part comes from training at home vs traveling, staying at a hotel, and wrapping your schedule around flights.
This is an older article, but the data suggests the home plate umps favor the home team for balls and strikes, and the favoring gets larger in higher leverage situations. https://tht.fangraphs.com/the-strike-zone-advantage-for-the-home-team/
Because I think Javier is the better pitcher right now and the added flexibility is not needed with how deep the bullpen is. It’s not a huge deal either way.
Yeah, I've seen the same - supposedly the same is true in the NBA and NFL too, in that the advantage comes from refs and friendly whistles rather than anything the players do. That's where I'm really curious about robo umps. I wonder if it's changed homefield advantage results in the minor leagues?
During the Seattle series, the team said they would not bring Lance in on short rest under any circumstance due to his arm injury history, which is why they picked Framber in Game 2 over Lance (he could come back if needed in Game 5, whereas Lance couldn't). Unless something has changed there, I assume that's still true a few weeks later.
no clue who gave you that information but its wrong. he is not an option on short rest under any circumstances, which was made known due to his large injury history, especially coming back from what he has come back from a few months ago. and tbh it's 100% the right decision for both sides involved
Out of curiosity, what happens to the team if their fans interfere (by throwing something at a player trying to make a catch) during a game? is the batter out and all runners have to retreat to their original bases?
I was reading a couple of baseball blue checks from Philly saying that Asgard or whatever the starter for today's game name is was going to be on a low 30-40 pitch count followed by the bullpen. I remembered he pitched a great game last season? against the Stros. Self edit it was the first game of the season he went HAM for the angels. It feels like 2 seasons ago, April 9 2022. I rather our batters see a regular starter than 2 innings of Noah followed by a different reliever each inning.
Bob Nightengale on Twitter: "MLB officials, after meeting 30 minutes ago, are next scheduled to meet with the #Phillies and #Astros at 5 p.m. to determine whether they will try to play tonight’s Game 3 of the World Series. They are hoping for a final decision no later than 6:30 p.m." / Twitter
An interesting stat from 2017 when supposedly the Stros had such an overwhelming advantage at home because of centerfield CCTV wired into MMP let them bang trashcans to signal what pitches. The Stros had a better road record that season than they did home: https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/HOU/2017-schedule-scores.shtml Split W L RS RA W-L% Home 48 33 395 327 .593 Road 53 28 501 373 .654
A meeting to schedule a meeting... lovely. His last tweet said something about keeping the travel day and pushing 6 and 7 back.
