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Post by inger on Feb 5, 2019 22:01:43 GMT -5
I think the using of pitchers for very short periods, which makes them more effective than the past, and the shift means that it is very hard to string multiple hits together and thus drive in runs. So hitting has declined in importance relative to home runs (although Boston hit pretty well in winning world series). The loss of hitters who were looking for holes to drive the baseball through has been just as large a contributing factor. Throwing harder to a batter who’s determined to pull the ball and is swinging harder is a recipe for strikeouts. The guys we no longer get to watch are the missing next generation of Rod Carews, Wade Boggs, Tony Gwynns. Even the next Lou Pinella, or Dave Magadans, Matty Alous, etc. who’s goal was to get hits, not hit HRs. By adding three extra pitchers to each team’s bullpens, we are now seeing 90 extra pitchers in MLB that at one time were bench players. They were Manny Mota, Smokey Burgess, or someone else who knew how to get a clutch base hit late in the game. I’m not buying that all these extra pitchers are making pitching more dominant. Nope. It’s lack of hitters, lack of balance. Teams are choosing that direction...What if the NFL suddenly decided to put 10 players on the field for the offense and 12 for the defense? Get it?... |
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Post by kaybli on Feb 6, 2019 12:47:18 GMT -5
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Post by noetsi on Feb 6, 2019 20:17:12 GMT -5
I think the shift is a big deal as well. Had it existed in the golden days of baseball I am sure it would have reduced hitting then to. Stupid statisticians  |
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Post by chiyankee on Feb 8, 2019 22:46:15 GMT -5
Sanchez taking some cuts.
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Post by kaybli on Feb 8, 2019 22:57:01 GMT -5
Sanchez taking some cuts. Go Sancho Go! Good to see! |
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Post by inger on Feb 9, 2019 1:20:22 GMT -5
I think the shift is a big deal as well. Had it existed in the golden days of baseball I am sure it would have reduced hitting then to. Stupid statisticians The shift wasn’t needed as much then because there weren’t near as many dead pull hitters. It was there, but was reserved for only the batters that were named Ted Williams... (: With the batting style of those so-called golden days the shift eoukfn’t Have been nearly as effective as batters believed in the “hit ‘em where they ain’t” philosophy... |
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Post by inger on Feb 9, 2019 1:22:31 GMT -5
Sanchez taking some cuts. Go Sancho Go! Good to see! I hate his batting stance. Always have. It looks so unathletic to me, sort of what you’d expect to see in a four year old...But when he’s hot, who cares?... |
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Post by Renfield on Feb 9, 2019 12:39:05 GMT -5
Quasimodo-esque.
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Post by inger on Feb 9, 2019 14:50:52 GMT -5
Ol’ Quaz, as they called him in his baseball playing days, had a great eye at the plate, and an eye for the ladies too...But he was a hunch hitter, and once the pitchers figured that out all they had to do was invent a new pitch he’d never heard of and he no longer had a hunch what they were going to throw. At that point his career went down hill. He was at least able to find work for a few years when he nabbed a job working as an assistant for a pitching coach who specialized in doctoring the baseball. They say the coach learned things from Ol’ Quaz that would make a ball behave downright inhumanly, yet with surprising life...That job was over when the baseballs began to return to the mound in flight and hit the pitcher that threw them in the head...especially in one situation in Class C ball where the mound caught fire after the ball ignited. It then bounced aimlessly through the grandstands, striking and setting fire to spectators... Oh wait... none of this was true. I had Ol’ Quaz confused with Ol’ Igor. I’ll just print a retraction...well, the first part was true. He WAS a hunch hitter, with a great eye...it was the later years, the coaching years that I was confused about... |
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Post by chiyankee on Feb 10, 2019 10:47:38 GMT -5
The boys are ready:
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Post by inger on Feb 10, 2019 12:03:45 GMT -5
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Post by chiyankee on Feb 12, 2019 11:08:28 GMT -5
Red Thunder looks like a shrimp compared to Judge.
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Post by kaybli on Feb 12, 2019 11:43:23 GMT -5
Red Thunder looks like a shrimp compared to Judge. And that dude is 6'1"!  |
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Post by inger on Feb 12, 2019 12:11:41 GMT -5
Red Thunder looks like a shrimp compared to Judge. What would comprise our best WWE tag team? “Twin Towers I” Judge/Betances “Twin Towers II” Judge/Stanton “Muscle and Thunder” Judge/Frazier |
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Post by chiyankee on Feb 13, 2019 10:23:33 GMT -5
Can this kid please stay healthy?
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