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foulpole · Veteran Presence Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 1303

I don't have the D-Backs feed tonight so was watching the Dodgers/Giants game.

Vin Sculley said that since the season is winding down that the Rockies ran out of balls that were being stored in the humidor. They received a new shipment that had not been stored for very long.

Then we get a 19-11 slugfest? If this is true there needs to be some further investigation on this issue.

How can this new shipment be fouled up after just arriving to CO? I thought that CO's argument was that they are just keeping the ball at their natural state.

McCray · Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject:

yeah, something sounds fishy there. i like the humidor, but if it's altering balls beyond their natural state, then it's gotta go.
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matt · Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 11:49 pm Post subject:

IMO, I think they need to decide one uniform standard that will be used at all parks. If that means one humidor for all parks, fine. Whatever, just use the same balls at all parks.

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shoewizard · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:16 am Post subject:

Wow...catching up on some old threads Mike? Wink

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McCray · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:04 pm Post subject:

you teach high school? what subject? do you like it? i got really burned out teaching college, and i've been thinking of switching to HS -- either math or english.

is it as bad as they say?
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TAP · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:35 pm Post subject:

foulpole · Veteran Presence Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 1303

Apparently, MLB is researching baseball storage.

"...Runs per game dropped by more than a run, from 13.40 in 2001 to 12.21 in '02. Then to 11.94 the next year. An uptick in '04 notwithstanding, they were back down to 11.07 in 2005 and 10.72 this year. Home runs per game dropped every season, from 3.31 in 2001 to 2.07 this year.

"Remember, this was a stadium that in 1996 averaged more than 15 runs per game, and one that three years later saw more than 300 home runs in 81 games. So different is the game at Coors Field these days that a buck wild September this year in which teams combined for nearly 17 runs per game and more than three home runs stirred conspiracy theories that the Rockies had stopped using humidor balls to pump up their September call-ups' numbers."

"There's no doubt it makes a huge difference," said Jerry DiPoto, a Rockies pitcher from 1997-2000 and member of the team's front office before leaving to become the Arizona Diamondbacks' director of player personnel. "It's changed the game there a lot, and I think it's changed the game for the better. It's a 100 percent improvement over what it was. It gives the Rockies a chance to build a competitive ballclub at a place where, at one time, I don't think that was necessarily the case."

"Pre-humidor at Coors, the best earned-run average from a Rockies starting pitcher had been Kevin Ritz's 4.21 in 1995. Since then, Joe Kennedy has posted a 3.66, and last season, Jason Jennings, Jeff Francis and Aaron Cook were all 4.23 or better. "

"At the end of the season, MLB started collecting teams' storage information, as it has done weekly with Colorado since its installation of the humidor. Were baseball to find large discrepancies, perhaps only then would it standardize the humidity levels at which teams keep the balls."

"We don't want to create additional work or expense for teams," said Joe Garagiola Jr., MLB's VP of operations. "If what teams are doing now is appropriate and handles the baseballs in a way where they're at all times within the specs and ready for play, that's fine. I don't think we want to go out armed with solutions in search of problems that don't exist."

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Dan · Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject: