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Post by Max on Sept 1, 2024 17:52:04 GMT -5
Just my 2 cents.....The Yankees have as good of a chance to win it all as any team. Right now, there doesn't seem to be a dominate MLB team. Looks like every team has flaws. 1 of the Yankees flaws is winning vs .500 or sub .500 teams. The good news is that the Yankees seem to play better when they face good teams as they will in the postseason. In the postseason, in my opinion, the hot team usually wins.
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Post by azbob643 on Sept 1, 2024 17:53:32 GMT -5
The explanation I've seen, which makes sense, is that hitters are sitting on a fastball, which they expect will eventually come. Yeah, but it seems like they are either adjusting to the change up or sitting on the change up since he throws it so many times in a row. The key to a good change is in the delivery...should look the same as a fastball. If a hitter is sitting on a change he'll look pretty foolish on a fastball...even Kahnle's. |
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Post by Max on Sept 1, 2024 17:55:34 GMT -5
I don't understand MLB scheduling interleague games so late in a MLB season. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's exciting for Pirates fans to have the Yanks come in...draws crowds that otherwise may not show up for a Pirates-Marlins series. Understood. But wouldn't they be just as excited if they played the Yankees sometime between April and August? |
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Post by Max on Sept 1, 2024 18:00:40 GMT -5
Yeah, but it seems like they are either adjusting to the change up or sitting on the change up since he throws it so many times in a row. The key to a good change is in the delivery...should look the same as a fastball. If a hitter is sitting on a change he'll look pretty foolish on a fastball...even Kahnle's. In my opinion, only if such hitter has 2 strikes on him, and in that case such hitter should protect the plate by looking for the fastball and adjusting to the change up. |
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Post by chiyankee on Sept 1, 2024 18:17:39 GMT -5
I'm also not really too much of a fan playing NL teams so much. The Yankees aren't competing against these teams for the majority of the playoffs and I just feel like those games get taken very unserious than games again the AL teams. Just doing a Quick Look the NL central seems to be good at this but most of the other teams are near 500 or under in interleague. I don't understand MLB scheduling interleague games so late in a MLB season. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ With 15 team leagues, they have to have an interleague series all the time or one team in each league wouldn't have an available opponent. |
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Post by anthonyd46 on Sept 1, 2024 18:18:47 GMT -5
I don't understand MLB scheduling interleague games so late in a MLB season. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ With 15 team leagues, they have to have an interleague series all the time or one team in each league wouldn't have an available opponent. Oh yea I know but it just like I dunno the teams don't seem to vibe for those as much unless it's like Yankee dodgers. Lot of rest days for Boone in some of them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Post by azbob643 on Sept 1, 2024 18:39:58 GMT -5
The key to a good change is in the delivery...should look the same as a fastball. If a hitter is sitting on a change he'll look pretty foolish on a fastball...even Kahnle's. In my opinion, only if such hitter has 2 strikes on him, and in that case such hitter should protect the plate by looking for the fastball and adjusting to the change up. A good hitter can sit on a fastball and adjust to a breaking ball. That's the key to a good changeup... can't adjust to it. |
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Post by Rockaway Park on Sept 1, 2024 18:52:41 GMT -5
FYI, "everyone else sucks too right now" doesn't mean we don't suck nor that we probably won't go all the way. Look if you want a be a doom and gloomer fine but I'm not talking about sucking over a 10 game span. This is an 80 game span or so that everyone sucks. I think that's a big enough of a sample size to prove everything is up for grabs. Would you feel great as an orioles, mariners, guardians, twins, royals, or any other Al team right now outside of the Astros that is the only team playing well ? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I'm just saying we're not elite. So if the doom and gloomers want to be negative, let them. It's not like they're lying. We aren't that great. And yes, you too are right that no one else is great either. Thus we could make the WS. But I'd rather us dominate and win than do what Arizona did last year. We're the Yankees. We're not supposed to be "decent". 2009 was a long, long, long time ago. I want the team to put fear in other teams and other fans. Right now, outside of Judge and Soto, no one on the Yankees scares anyone. |
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Post by anthonyd46 on Sept 1, 2024 19:16:21 GMT -5
Look if you want a be a doom and gloomer fine but I'm not talking about sucking over a 10 game span. This is an 80 game span or so that everyone sucks. I think that's a big enough of a sample size to prove everything is up for grabs. Would you feel great as an orioles, mariners, guardians, twins, royals, or any other Al team right now outside of the Astros that is the only team playing well ? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I'm just saying we're not elite. So if the doom and gloomers want to be negative, let them. It's not like they're lying. We aren't that great. And yes, you too are right that no one else is great either. Thus we could make the WS. But I'd rather us dominate and win than do what Arizona did last year. We're the Yankees. We're not supposed to be "decent". 2009 was a long, long, long time ago. I want the team to put fear in other teams and other fans. Right now, outside of Judge and Soto, no one on the Yankees scares anyone. The path really isn't important if they win the World Series it still counts. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Post by bumper on Sept 1, 2024 21:01:27 GMT -5
Just my 2 cents.....The Yankees have as good of a chance to win it all as any team. Right now, there doesn't seem to be a dominate MLB team. Looks like every team has flaws. 1 of the Yankees flaws is winning vs .500 or sub .500 teams. The good news is that the Yankees seem to play better when they face good teams as they will in the postseason. In the postseason, in my opinion, the hot team usually wins. agree. but their performance over this recent span against some lesser teams doesn't inspire championship confidence. much too much wheel spinning and getting shut down by lesser pitchers. soto's in the middle of his first extended slump and judge has cooled as well. |
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Post by anthonyd46 on Sept 1, 2024 21:12:37 GMT -5
Just my 2 cents.....The Yankees have as good of a chance to win it all as any team. Right now, there doesn't seem to be a dominate MLB team. Looks like every team has flaws. 1 of the Yankees flaws is winning vs .500 or sub .500 teams. The good news is that the Yankees seem to play better when they face good teams as they will in the postseason. In the postseason, in my opinion, the hot team usually wins. agree. but their performance over this recent span against some lesser teams doesn't inspire championship confidence. much too much wheel spinning and getting shut down by lesser pitchers. soto's in the middle of his first extended slump and judge has cooled as well. I'm not saying this isn't a valid point but what other teams in the Al is inspiring confidence right now? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Post by anthonyd46 on Sept 1, 2024 21:14:38 GMT -5
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Post by bigjeep on Sept 1, 2024 21:33:16 GMT -5
Todays game was worse than watching a AAA game at Scranton!  |
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Post by anthonyd46 on Sept 1, 2024 22:35:23 GMT -5
Couple more stats with the Yankees and Orioles...
July and August record :
Orioles 25-28 -30 (July 115-134 August 125-136)
Yankees 25-25 +26 (July 129-113, August 123-113)
So the Yankees had a similar record than the orioles, but the run differential was +56 more.
Things like this could def matter in October when runs are at a premium sometimes.
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Post by bumper on Sept 1, 2024 23:02:03 GMT -5
didn't see the game. listened to a couple innings during my travels. watched highlights. sounded like a struggle for cortes. neither of the two call ups - effross & marinaccio pitched well but after the team had fought back, kahnle, who had been great lately blew it up. still contend that you can't throw change up after change up. 6 in the same at bat allowing the bases clearing double.
great comeback. #4-9 provided most of the offense going 9-18 and gleyber drove in 2 w single & sac fly but another nothing game for soto & judge.
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