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How baseball Twitter account ‘Is that dong?’ is done

When Rangers manager Chris Woodward called Yankee Stadium a “little league stadium” on Sunday afternoon and claimed Gleyber Torres’ home run would have been “an easy outing in 99% of stadiums”, there was only one place to turn for the cold, hard truth:

Le “Would that be dong? ” Twitter account.

Across the country, a warehouse manager for a small business in Washington was warned on his personal Twitter account that he should check out the project he created last year. Dan Morse soon realized it was going to be a big day for “Would it dong?” »

The Twitter bot pulls data from MLB’s Statcast and compares it to stadium dimensions to measure the number of stadiums in which a fly ball would be a home run.

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