Robert Edwards-USA TODAY Sports In his current piece about umpire accuracy, Davy Andrews famous that plate umpires appropriately referred to as 99.26% of coronary heart zone pitches in 2023. When I first learn that quantity, I didn’t assume missed calls within the coronary heart zone warranted any nearer investigation. For most of us, ninety-nine level something is pretty much as good as 100; you don’t spend a lot time worrying in regards to the 0.01% of germs Purell can’t kill. Then once more, in case you had been to contemplate the sheer quantity of micro organism in your palms at any given second, you would possibly go for a second squirt of sanitizer. A tiny share of an amazing quantity remains to be going to be a fairly large quantity. The identical is true for missed calls withi...

D. Ross Cameron-USA TODAY Sports When the Cardinals signed Brandon Crawford to a one-year, $2 million deal earlier this week, the very first thing that popped into my thoughts was a two-word hashtag. I figured it wouldn’t be lengthy earlier than the Giants’ social media accounts would ship out the identical factor they at all times put up in response to the departure of a franchise icon: #ForeverGiant. Of course, #ForeverGiant is a public relations gimmick, a approach for the group to melt the blow for followers who're unhappy to see considered one of their favourite gamers retire or, worse, sporting one other group’s uniform. Yet within the case of Crawford, who grew up a Giants fan within the Bay Area and who turned the franchise’s all-time chief in video games performed at shortsto...