We hear of “The Stacast Era” a great deal, now. It rivals “Deadball Era” and “Modern Era” as citations. MLB is careful to state that Statcast’s data are “estimates,” but that’s not how they actually sell it. It’s promoted as sine qua non for on-field performances, down to fractions of inches and of miles per hour. However, one is occasionally inclined to doubt the line, in the manner of the umpire grading sites. On June 30, Statcast laid an eighteen-inches-off-the-plate-called-strike-three whopper on us, and it’s time we recalcitrant old-schoolers had a whole lotta fun with it.
This is a tale of two home runs, both hit June 30, by Patrick Wisdom, the first a dramatic grand slam [VIDEO].