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Post by kaybli on Apr 18, 2021 13:19:45 GMT -5
Hicks figured why waste time, just swing at the first pitch and be done with it.  Go back to being patient Hicks! |
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Post by chiyankee on Apr 18, 2021 13:19:52 GMT -5
You could probably count on one hand how many balls Torres has hit hard this season.
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Post by rizzuto on Apr 18, 2021 13:20:50 GMT -5
I like to see Tauchman is left and Gardner in CF for a week... just to see what happens. It really can’t be any worse... No, it can’t. I’d be platooning Hicks, only playing him against lefties. |
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Post by inger on Apr 18, 2021 13:21:32 GMT -5
Babe Zunino up again...
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Post by Renfield on Apr 18, 2021 13:22:30 GMT -5
I like to see Tauchman is left and Gardner in CF for a week... just to see what happens. It really can’t be any worse... No, it can’t. I’d be platooning Hicks, only playing him against lefties. Me too. Except i wouldn't play him against lefties either. |
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Post by rizzuto on Apr 18, 2021 13:23:55 GMT -5
No, it can’t. I’d be platooning Hicks, only playing him against lefties. Me too. Except i wouldn't play him against lefties either.  |
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Post by anthonyd46 on Apr 18, 2021 13:25:01 GMT -5
You could probably count on one hand how many balls Torres has hit hard this season. As Didi continues to put up solid stats for the Phillies. |
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Post by inger on Apr 18, 2021 13:25:18 GMT -5
No, it can’t. I’d be platooning Hicks, only playing him against lefties. Me too. Except i wouldn't play him against lefties either. How about lefties at the alternate site? ... |
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 18, 2021 13:27:17 GMT -5
I didn’t know Bruce was from Beaumont, Texas. My favorite aunt and uncle lived in nearby Nederland for about 60 years. During college, I took off a year to work near Beaumont at a company that made heat exchangers. The pro golfer Bruce Leitzke once worked there before making it on tour. While there, I joined their company softball team and played in the industrial league. Great bunch of guys. There was a fantastic hamburger joint that we always frequented before or after games...something like Novrozsky’s. I learned from Topps baseball cards that Frank Robinson was born in Beaumont. Not imparted by Topps, but The Big Bopper was also from Beaumont, as were the amazing Winter brothers Johnny and Edgar. |
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Post by inger on Apr 18, 2021 13:27:59 GMT -5
You could probably count on one hand how many balls Torres has hit hard this season. As Didi continues to put up solid stats for the Phillies. Didi at .320, 2 HR, 10 RBI, still catching everything in the field and smiling his ass off...what a fine player and a gentleman. Miss ya’ Didi... |
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Post by rizzuto on Apr 18, 2021 13:29:08 GMT -5
I don’t buy this stuff they’re shoveling about pitching being so much better than ten years ago or in the past. Hitters swinging from their butts, having no two-strike approach, and losing the shame of striking out are perfectly reasonable explanations for the degradation of hitting and batting average. Also, a generation of hitters have been indoctrinated that batting average is meaningless and slugging and launch angle should be the focus.
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Post by kaybli on Apr 18, 2021 13:30:39 GMT -5
Nicely struck Urshela!
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Post by inger on Apr 18, 2021 13:30:58 GMT -5
Nice poke Urshela! See how easy hitting can be? ...
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 18, 2021 13:31:08 GMT -5
Too beautiful of a day here to spend too much of it watching this team the way it is playing. I caught up with the lowlights and it confirmed the wisdom of taking a nice hike.
And now we are rewarded with a leadoff double. The tide is turning.
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Post by Renfield on Apr 18, 2021 13:32:06 GMT -5
Is Andujar still with the Yanks somewhere? Think he could hit .230 which would make him about the 3d or 4th best hitter in the line-up?
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Go back to being patient Hicks!
