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Harold Reynolds and Verducci taking McCarver's spot:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/01/s...lead-baseball-analysts-on-fox.html?ref=sports

Fox Sports knew last season that it would have to replace Tim McCarver, its lead analyst for Major League Baseball since 1996, who turned 72 during last year’s postseason.

On Monday, Fox will announce that two people will replace him: Harold Reynolds and Tom Verducci.

They are well known in baseball, though not primarily as game analysts. Reynolds has largely spent his broadcasting career as a studio commentator at ESPN and, more recently, at MLB Network, and he has been in the booth only occasionally.

For Reynolds, a former major league second baseman, the position is a further step in a comeback since ESPN fired him in 2006 over a sexual harassment complaint. He has made his return steadily, working atMLB.com, SNY, TBS and, most prominently, MLB Network.

Verducci, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, has worked as a field reporter at TBS for playoff games and as a reporter for MLB Network, where he called some games. He also worked for Fox last season as a game analyst, presumably as a kind of a screen test.

Verducci will remain with MLB Network but will not work at TBS.

The Big Lead website was the first to report the hirings.

McCarver, of course, has not retired. He announced last month that he would call about 30 games for the St. Louis Cardinals on Fox Sports Midwest.

For Fox, the 2014 season is one of substantial change. The schedule of two or three regional games each Saturday on the Fox broadcast network has been slashed drastically. But Fox Sports 1, in its first baseball season since its launch in August, will carry 40 games, mostly on Saturdays, often as parts of a doubleheader, and occasionally during the week.

Fox has not clarified how many games the play-by-play announcer Joe Buck, Reynolds and Verducci will call. A Fox spokesman declined to comment.

Another analyst Fox is likely to hire is John Smoltz, whose contract at TBS has expired. He also called games at MLB Network.

Now that Fox Sports 1 has a studio for baseball programming, Fox will no longer use MLB Network’s studio announcers for the pregame show, as it did the past two seasons.
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:patrice: Not sure how I feel about that.
 
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I'm having a nerd-gasm right now........
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb...md=20140301&content_id=68514514&vkey=news_mlb

BOSTON -- Baseball is a game of inches, and those inches will be measured in a brand new way.

Major League Baseball Advanced Media on Saturday introduced a revolutionary plan for in-ballpark infrastructure designed to provide the first complete and reliable measurement of every play on the field and answer previously unanswerable analytics questions.

The announcement was made by MLBAM CEO Bob Bowman at the eighth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference at the Hynes Convention Center near Fenway Park. MLBAM gave an overview of how it continues to implement various fan experience technologies, including iBeacon and widespread connectivity, to ensure MLB ballparks are crucibles of technology.

"This is going to be pretty exciting," Bowman said. "We think it's going to change the way we argue about the game, but we don't think it's going to settle any debates. We hope it starts more."

The goal is to revolutionize the way people evaluate baseball, by presenting for the first time the tools that connect all actions that happen on a field to determine how they work together. This new datastream will enable the industry to understand the whole play on the field -- batting, pitching, fielding and baserunning -- and enable new metrics for evaluation by clubs, scouts, players and fans.

For instance, on a brilliant, game-saving diving catch by an outfielder, this new system will let us understand what created that outcome. Was it the quickness of his first step, his acceleration? Was it his initial positioning? What if the pitcher had thrown a different pitch? Everything will be connected for the first time, providing a tool for answers to questions like this and more.


...................................read the article for more. shyt is CRAZY.
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King Diesel said:
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Might get MLB TV this year

Any Cubs fans in here? Just wondering if the fanbase is getting frustrated yet... that Edwin Jackson contract was TURRIBLE, and the team still doesn't seem anywhere close to contending... Seems like Theo is getting a pass over there...
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According to alot of scouts ive seen, the cubs have alot of very good prospects, but lack pitching depth (which is why alotof folks think they shoulda signed Tanaka) Theo doin what he did in boston, solid drafts but still signing bums like jackson for too much money. Wish u could watch local games on MLB, i aint paying for cable anymore.
 
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Reynolds on FOX is overkill. He's not bad but I don't need him on my screen 24/7. I respect his grind though.

That said I'm interested in watching this. Harold has done this before so I'm good.

Get Gus on the B team to make purists angry
 
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