2015's curse

[Diehardfan]

Umpires were awful with balls and strikes. I have a video from Ted Williams talking about the strike zone and having command of it as a hitter. He suggests that if a batter starts swinging at pitches 2 or 3 inches out of the zone, the batter will find that he is getting behind in counts and essentially the pitcher has the advantage. The umpires were doing that for the pitchers. Also the strike zone is too low. MLB needs to fix some things this off-season, including umpires like Cousy who are really bad behind the plate still getting their turn back there.

LOL, you're giving the "Cousy" family a bad rap. I think this is the stiff you mean.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SFGiants/comments/3casc2/til_umpire_phil_cuzzi_has_a_long_history_of_awful/

 

[Parade_Rain]

LOL, you're giving the "Cousy" family a bad rap. I think this is the stiff you mean.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SFGiants/comments/3casc2/til_umpire_phil_cuzzi_has_a_long_history_of_awful/

LOL. Yes. I do believe I misspelled it. Either way I was just using him as an example. Overall, the lack of consistency in calling balls/strikes according to the rule book has been hideous this post-season. MLB has some serious work to do.