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Rocket Science vs. Barry Bonds
Ray Radlein writes "How about a good old-fashioned Sports story? With its multitude of different statistical measures, baseball has always had the highest Geek Quotient of any major sport. Alpha Geeks of Baseball have included former relief pitcher Rob Murphy, who put his Computer Science degree to good use writing software to evaluate thoroughbred race horses, and Boston Red Sox ace and probable future Hall of Famer Curt Schilling, who not only runs a company that makes hex-based war games, but once got embroiled in an on-field feud due to Everquest. However, Baseball Geeks have a new hero to look up to: Jason Szuminski, who on Sunday became the first MIT graduate to pitch in a major league baseball game. His degree in Aerospace Engineering must have stood him in good stead as he observed the ballistic trajectory of a Barry Bonds fly ball which just barely stayed inside the Padres' new stadium."
Baseball is a sport that is played between two teams. A guy throws the ball (called pitching) and a batter hits the ball. A bunch of more guys in the field run around to catch it. That is it.
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The only reason he's playing for the Padres right now is that the Cubs invoked some obscure rule that required the Pads to keep Szuminski on the 25 man roster for the entire year or forefit him to the Cubs. He has good stuff, but he just isn't ready for the big leagues just yet. Last night he should have gotten out of a tough inning but Sean Borroughs made an error that should have gotten the third out. He then went on to walk the bases loaded and then walk a run home!!
It's not that the run was his fault, it really was on Borroughs. But you can't lose your concentration and just start walking everybody just because your defense makes an error. You have to hang in there, which Szuminski didn't do. He needs to spend some time in AAA for a year or so. He has talent, he just needs to learn to pitch.
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