soul of baseball

Chapter 536 Don't read the previous post by mistake
What a good catcher has to do is not as simple as catching the ball. Even if he can instigate the audience, it is not enough. The most important thing is to be able to deceive people!
Shen Qin is very good at deceiving, but for him, deceiving the batterer can only be ranked second, and the most important thing is to deceive the chief judge.

He still remembers his first game. The referee at that time was an amateur referee. During the game, his strike zone was affected by hitters several times.

Then when the hitter can affect the referee's strike zone, the catcher has to try to pull the strike zone back.

Pull to a position that is beneficial to your own team.

In this process, 'cheat' is very important~
Use the angle and movement of the body, gloves, and even the legs to fool the referee, making them think that the balls they see fall in the strike zone.

Speaking of framing skills, this has a huge impact on pitchers. Let alone enlarging the strike zone, the pitcher's trust in the catcher's skills can give a great psychological security.

The technique of 'stealing the ball' is largely regarded as a talent, and it is difficult to correct and learn the day after tomorrow.

A good catcher can turn bad balls into strikes, and a less-than-skilled catcher can even turn good balls into bad balls for the umpire.

The difference from time to time is really huge. If we take the professional league as an example, it can even affect the qualifications for the playoffs.

The catcher's ability to catch the ball can actually be digitized a little bit.

Three points can be obtained based on the total number of pitches pitched by the team's pitchers, the percentage of balls entering the strike zone (Zone%), and the bad swing ratio (O-Swing%).

1 is the total number of headers * Zone% = the number of balls inside and outside the strike zone.

2 is the number of balls outside the strike zone * O-swing% to get the number of times the batter swings the ball outside the strike zone.

3 is the key point. Add the number of balls used in 1 and 2 to get the "Number of Strikes a Pitcher Expects to Get".

But expectations are expectations. According to the catcher's framing technology, it can have a drop, such as a good ball turning into a bad ball, and a bad ball turning into a good ball.

The positive or negative difference between the expected number of strikes and the actual number of strikes can well reflect the skill of the catcher.

For example, if the pitchers actually catch more strikes than expected, it is a + number, which naturally means that the catcher is pulling back more strikes.And less than expected is the number, which indicates that the ability of the catcher is a little worse.

Shen Qin has also calculated this himself. For example, since he started squatting for the team last year, 401 of the pitchers in the team have thrown into the strike zone. The number of swings is 232.

This means that Coach's expected number of strikes is 633.

But in fact, the number of balls he judged as strikes was 769, which is an exaggeration. That is to say, Shen Qin's framing skills earned Coach 136 more strikes.

Of course, this has a lot to do with student baseball and the unfamiliarity of the head judges with the players, but even so, these statistics are really amazing.

在职棒的数据圈中，好球的平均值为0.14分（小数点），而多出来的136颗好球=136*0.14分=19.04分。

That is to say, it is about 1 WAR faster. Simply put, Shen Qin earned 1-2 more wins for the team as a catcher!
You know, there are only a few games.

In a major league game this year, the coach of another major league team was so angry that he ran to the plate and scolded the umpire because of Uri's skill in stealing the ball.

Yuri's framing skills are needless to say, and he can often pull the ball that falls under the calf into a good ball.

Of course his own pitcher is happy, but the opponent is about to collapse!
In this regard, the brothers of the Molina family are all excellent. The eldest and the second have retired when they are old. The younger brother Yuri is still fighting and is better than the older brothers. He is probably waiting for Shen Qin now.

It’s not wrong to say that someone at home is good at teaching, but Yuri thinks talent is more important, like Shen Qin’s body and legs, he can always keep moving when he catches the ball, but his body reacts there , When something comes over, I always subconsciously hide, it cannot be done by practice.

'Stealing the ball' is not necessarily just the catcher's stealing, the hitter can also cheat.

In Shen Qin's words, when you are squatting and catching, you have to lie to the referee and hitter, but when you are a hitter, you have to lie to the catcher, referee and pitcher. You can't relax for a moment!
It really sounds like he deserves a beating, and Yuri couldn't figure out why a child who is obedient almost all the time can't learn the insidiousness on the court without a teacher.

And it works very well from body to mind.

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"The ground is cleared!"

The field has to be rearranged again. According to the official notice, if the weather is still like this after five innings, the game will be stopped, which is considered a normal game.

That is to say, UMBC is now 1:3 behind UCLA. It has 8 rounds to tie or even overtake, but now there are only four and a half rounds left.

It sounds unfair, but this kind of thing is not uncommon.After all, there are not many indoor stadiums in the United States, and the home courts of D1-level school teams in universities are all open-air. In the season of changing weather, it is really unavoidable to avoid various games that end early.

"Big talk!" The bored team guard jumped out of nowhere: "Shohei Otani's post-match interview was blown up!"

Otani Shohei is undoubtedly the most prosperous rookie in the 2108 season, 'two-handed shooting'! 'Century Genius'! The titles of "Babe Ruth of Japan" and so on are really loud enough, so players from the two teams surrounded them in the passage.

"Ahem!" The guard put away his excited expression: "He said! The few innings that were not shot were unlucky, which emphatically showed that one of the innings was shot well."

Everyone booed. This kind of thing can only be said by others, how can you say it yourself?One of them burst out laughing: "Last time he said he saw his own shadow in Kershaw and Truott!"

Everyone laughed even harder, who are these two people!Kershaw is the strongest left-handed pitcher on the surface today, and Trout is a modern beast. What he said will inevitably make fans uncomfortable.

Shen Qin walked to the side boredly, and the person who spoke just now squeezed over, wasn't it just Tolia: "Hey, what do you think?"

"What do you think?" Shen Qin blinked: "It has nothing to do with me, we are not professional players now."

"Tell me! Why are you tense?"

"I really don't have any opinions. It doesn't mean anything to say these words. You can understand it at a young age."

Tolia snorted: "I find that you are not straightforward at all. I see that many people are talking about how cute you are on the Internet. You must have facial paralysis, right?"

Facial paralysis?Shen Qin turned his head with a stiff neck, and always felt that something made sense.

(End of this chapter)