FanGraphs Chat – 8/8/12
Dave is a co-founder of USSMariner.com and contributes to the Wall Street Journal.
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Referring to your comment at 12:57 “[CoverItLive too expensive..]“, I am struck by the signature at 1:00 that says “The world’s real-time events leader, Free and simple to use.” Somebody is not telling the whole truth here.
They changed from a free model to a pay model a few months ago.
I was surprised as well, so I went to their website. A site as popular as Fangraphs would probably need to the $300 a month plan.
http://www.coveritlive.com/pricing
I don’t know where Dave gets his comment that “FieldF/X is not a real product yet; it’s just a concept and a work in progress.” The first stadium to have it installed was AT&T Part in San Francisco last year, and the goal was that it would be in every stadium by the beginning of 2012 season.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-31/baseball-is-set-for-deluge-in-data-as-monitoring-of-players-goes-hi-tech.html
Based on my understanding of what is currently available to MLB teams, that hasn’t happened.
It may not be in all stadiums yet – doesn’t surprise me – but the fact that it is in place in some stadiums (San Francisco, Oakland, and Kansas City) places it beyond the “concept” stage.
The idea of Anibal Sanchez getting 4/60 is hilarious. Guy is absolutely terrible, he can’t do it in the AL at all. Wouldn’t pay him more than 5-7m on a short term deal, and only in the NL.