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Post by inger on Oct 19, 2018 23:39:13 GMT -5
Hitting in the clutch, fielding more sharply and crisply, making contact when there are ducks on the pond. Employing strategies like the hit and run, stealing bases. They played winning baseball the way I like to see it played. We played beer league softball... Hitting in the clutch, fielding, making contact, doing the hit and run, and stealing really don't have much to do with "playing like a team." These are still individual things a player does. Maybe fielding requires two or more players if its a groundball or someone to catch an outfield assist. In the hit and run, most of the onus in on the batter to make contact. What I'm saying in baseball, most everything is based on individual performances. Get a bunch of these outstanding individual performances and you're likely to win. It's not like basketball or football. Things like "team chemistry" are so overrated in my opinion.
One of the rare times we’ll have to agree to disagree, buddy. To be fair, injuries, inexperience, and some unexpected poor performances kept us from having our full four-man infield on the field on a regular basis. That made it a lot bit harder for them to play in harmony. Different players feed and receive balls in different ways. As for the hit and runs, etc., we’re just not a team that’s built for it compared to Boston. I know the Red Sox have a ballpark that supports high batting averages, but we had no one that had high BA’s like Betts and J.D.. I’ll not say JD is a hit and run guy, but he sure did for average. I think Betts season was a fluke year and he’ll return to earth next year, but his contact rate was great. He and JD killed on first pitch offense stats, too. |
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Post by kaybli on Oct 19, 2018 23:59:30 GMT -5
Betts and JD were great this year no doubt about it. But I'll take our lineup over theirs every time going forward. And I wouldn't be so quick to denigrate our power and patience approach or lament the fact that "we hit too many HRs".
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Post by inger on Oct 20, 2018 0:11:28 GMT -5
Betts and JD were great this year no doubt about it. But I'll take our lineup over theirs every time going forward. And I wouldn't be so quick to denigrate our power and patience approach or lament the fact that "we hit too many HRs". I don’t want to get too morose about the HR power, do I’ll not go quite so far as to say too many HR. Patience has become the focus of too much love in recent years. One of the things Betts cited as a key to his success this past year was his willingness to be aggressive early in the count, and not let the only good pitch he might see in an st bat put him behind in the count. Quite often, a batter that swings st the first pitch is getting a pitch at least intended for the strike zone. Conversely, a pitch who gets strike one may try to get the hitter to chase the next one to get s cheap 0-2. I still agree with a patient approach, but kind in golf, I feel hitting a baseball is more about controlled aggression and intelligence... |
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Post by kaybli on Oct 20, 2018 0:20:09 GMT -5
Betts and JD were great this year no doubt about it. But I'll take our lineup over theirs every time going forward. And I wouldn't be so quick to denigrate our power and patience approach or lament the fact that "we hit too many HRs". I don’t want to get too morose about the HR power, do I’ll not go quite so far as to say too many HR. Patience has become the focus of too much love in recent years. One of the things Betts cited as a key to his success this past year was his willingness to be aggressive early in the count, and not let the only good pitch he might see in an st bat put him behind in the count. Quite often, a batter that swings st the first pitch is getting a pitch at least intended for the strike zone. Conversely, a pitch who gets strike one may try to get the hitter to chase the next one to get s cheap 0-2. I still agree with a patient approach, but kind in golf, I feel hitting a baseball is more about controlled aggression and intelligence... I agree if you get a good meatball on the first pitch you should swing away but Betts was also 7th in the AL in walks. |
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Post by inger on Oct 20, 2018 9:24:04 GMT -5
I don’t want to get too morose about the HR power, do I’ll not go quite so far as to say too many HR. Patience has become the focus of too much love in recent years. One of the things Betts cited as a key to his success this past year was his willingness to be aggressive early in the count, and not let the only good pitch he might see in an st bat put him behind in the count. Quite often, a batter that swings st the first pitch is getting a pitch at least intended for the strike zone. Conversely, a pitch who gets strike one may try to get the hitter to chase the next one to get s cheap 0-2. I still agree with a patient approach, but kind in golf, I feel hitting a baseball is more about controlled aggression and intelligence... I agree if you get a good meatball on the first pitch you should swing away but Betts was also 7th in the AL in walks. That's sort of the point. There almost seems to be a taboo against swinging until you get a strike on you. The truth is you can still walk if you're aggressive early in the count. I feel many of our hitters are failing that part of their game...Anyway, I didn't want to turn this into a Betts lovefest...Just so happens he had a career year, and that was his strategy... |
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Post by kaybli on Oct 20, 2018 9:39:31 GMT -5
Getting back to the MLB Playoffs, who do you guys think has the better chance against Boston, the Dodgers or the Brewers?
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Post by inger on Oct 20, 2018 11:05:35 GMT -5
Getting back to the MLB Playoffs, who do you guys think has the better chance against Boston, the Dodgers or the Brewers? Sadly, LA. By a wide margin...LA is in a HR slump, yet still competitive. If they break out of that HR slump, then watch out. They’ll have a puncher’s chance... |
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Post by kaybli on Oct 20, 2018 11:16:04 GMT -5
Getting back to the MLB Playoffs, who do you guys think has the better chance against Boston, the Dodgers or the Brewers? Sadly, LA. By a wide margin...LA is in a HR slump, yet still competitive. If they break out of that HR slump, then watch out. They’ll have a puncher’s chance... Yea, that's what I think too. That's the only reason I'm supporting the Dodgers. |
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Post by chiyankee on Oct 20, 2018 13:16:17 GMT -5
Getting back to the MLB Playoffs, who do you guys think has the better chance against Boston, the Dodgers or the Brewers? By just talent, I'd go with the Dodgers. According to Cot's, the Red Sox opening season payroll was more than 140,000 million than the Brewers. The Red Sox even outspent the free spending Dodgers by 45+ million. Strange, how team payroll is only brought up when it's the Yankees. |
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Post by greatfatness on Oct 20, 2018 13:31:41 GMT -5
Getting back to the MLB Playoffs, who do you guys think has the better chance against Boston, the Dodgers or the Brewers? LA. But I would much rather see the Brewers win the NLCS and the WS. |
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Post by kaybli on Oct 20, 2018 14:32:15 GMT -5
Getting back to the MLB Playoffs, who do you guys think has the better chance against Boston, the Dodgers or the Brewers? By just talent, I'd go with the Dodgers. According to Cot's, the Red Sox opening season payroll was more than 140,000 million than the Brewers. The Red Sox even outspent the free spending Dodgers by 45+ million. Strange, how team payroll is only brought up when it's the Yankees. Yea, of course Boston never buys its championships. Only the Yanks.  |
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Post by inger on Oct 20, 2018 22:05:09 GMT -5
Can’t believe I’m watching this play off game...
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Post by anthonyd46 on Oct 20, 2018 22:37:24 GMT -5
For the record there's not one player on Boston's team I wish was on the Yankees instead.
Anyway the dodgers have beat the brewers 5-1 and will be in the world series for the second straight year. I will be watching 0 seconds of that garbage.
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Post by inger on Oct 20, 2018 23:07:14 GMT -5
For the record there's not one player on Boston's team I wish was on the Yankees instead. Anyway the dodgers have beat the brewers 5-1 and will be in the world series for the second straight year. I will be watching 0 seconds of that garbage. C’mon. Admit it. You miss Noonie... (: |
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Post by chiyankee on Oct 20, 2018 23:33:58 GMT -5
For the record there's not one player on Boston's team I wish was on the Yankees instead. Anyway the dodgers have beat the brewers 5-1 and will be in the world series for the second straight year. I will be watching 0 seconds of that garbage. I have to admit, I'd trade Ellsbury for Betts.  |
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