Injuries, inconsistency plague Diamondbacks but team remains confident Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo believes his team is resilient and can rebound. “They make adjustments,” he said. “They’re adaptable.” (Source: Cronkite News) By Connor Morman | April 21, 2021 at 7:16 AM MST - Updated April 21 at 7:16 AM
PHOENIX – The 2020 season was a forgettable one for the Arizona Diamondbacks, who finished a shortened, 60-game schedule 10 games below .500 and in the cellar of the National League West.
The calendar has turned to 2021 and Major League Baseball is scheduled to play a full, 162-game season, meaning there is less reason to panic over a slow start.
“Because of the short season, we didn’t have urgency, we had more panic,” shortstop Nick Ahmed said. “That hurt guys more than it helped. (This year), we have urgency, guys are digging in and trying to make the necessary adjustments.”
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The Three Laws of Robotic Umpires (!)
1. A robotic umpire may not misidentify a thrown ball or, through misidentification, allow a strike to be called a ball, or conversely, a ball to be called a strike. All calls must be objectively correct.
2. A robotic umpire must objectively and correctly interpret the strike zone except where such interpretation would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robotic umpire must make the objectively correct call as long as such a determination does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
(!) Adapted, of course, from Dr Asimov’s famous Three Laws of Robotics.
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