Baseball-Playing Robots

A Japanese professor has created robots that play baseball. This should further stir the debate between stats-minded folks and those who wish to emphasize the human component of baseball.

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Cubs need to look into this....

Any payroll wiggle-room needs to be devoted to this RIGHT HERE.

"It's hard to win 97 games, it's hard to win the division. Our attitude is if you get in every year, you get in most of the time, sooner or later you are going to knock that door down." -- Jim Hendry

by EJThunder on Jul 25, 2009 1:41 AM CDT reply actions

hold on hold on hold on

there aren’t twelve models
they don’t look like us
they don’t feel like us
and they have no plan.

Forget all that other stuff. I gotta believe.

by drewishdrewid on Jul 25, 2009 7:59 AM CDT reply actions

Yeah, this sucks. They're not even hot.

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by daver on Jul 25, 2009 11:02 AM CDT up reply actions

The pitching robot throws 25 mph strikes.

Can we trade Aaron Heilman for him?

"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said." ~William F. Buckley, Jr.

by Goodie1969 on Jul 25, 2009 8:31 AM CDT reply actions

Can they pitch and hit

Lefty?

"That pitch wasn’t down and in, that pitch was down and up." Tim McCarver

by wrigleyrocker12 on Jul 25, 2009 10:51 AM CDT reply actions

I really don't see what this has to do with the stats vs. scouting debate...

…but an interesting article nonetheless. If the scientist in question can work the robots up to game speed, these hideous, glistening machines could really take batting cages to the next level.

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by daver on Jul 25, 2009 11:04 AM CDT reply actions

In my description about this article...

…in which I make a reference to stats-folks and the human elements of baseball, I meant to imply that, in my opinion, a player’s numbers don’t always tell the whole story about his “game.” I’ve heard some people argue (not on BCB necessarily) that “robots don’t play the game; humans do.” I thought that this article was ironic because it refers to robots “playing” baseball.

Let’s hope that humans, in baseball, aren’t going to be expendable!

"I am not a poet, but a poem."--Jacques Lacan

by neonverse1 on Jul 25, 2009 4:33 PM CDT up reply actions