Around Baseball 2022

[connorp]

So is this a reminder that Trout is a f***ing god

 

If I had to take one guy coming to the plate, it’s Vlad. Trout is doing his Clint Eastwood thing

[JFD]

HAHA.gif @4thOFan

[Spanky__99]

No wonder Conforto didn't sign, dude's out for the year after having shoulder surgery...

 

 

[RobinThicc]

Whens the last time Boras f***ed up like this?

 

Conforto got f***ed.

[Spanky__99]

Whens the last time Boras f***ed up like this?

 

Conforto got f***ed.

 

By Boras, why?

[RobinThicc]

By Boras, why?

Boras is his agent

[Spanky__99]

Boras is his agent

 

I know that, but how did he f*** Conforto? lol

[RobinThicc]

I know that, but how did he f*** Conforto? lol

Cause his job was to help Conforto get the most amount of money as possible and he didnt.

 

Will Conforto even get the same amount as the QO he declined, next winter?

[RobinThicc]

And the rumour is conforto turned a 100+ million dollar extension from the mets.

 

Dude got f***ed by listening to boras

[connorp]

RG30 (Randal Grichuk) slash line line .417/463/583 Edited April 24, 2022 by connorp

[Stangstag]

And the rumour is conforto turned a 100+ million dollar extension from the mets.

 

Dude got f***ed by listening to boras

 

Lolll

[max silver]

RG30 (Randal Grichuk) slash line line .417/463/583

 

He had a nice game today but his numbers are largely undeserved up to this point. Grichuk was rocking a -3.8 launch angle and a 69% ground ball rate heading into action today along with a bottom of the barrel 85 MPH exit velocity.

[connorp]

He had a nice game today but his numbers are largely undeserved up to this point. Grichuk was rocking a -3.8 launch angle and a 69% ground ball rate heading into action today along with a bottom of the barrel 85 MPH exit velocity.

 

Meh, just a sss. Him hitting a HR is hardly a fluke. 180 wRC+ bro

[Jimcanuck]

Meh, just a sss. Him hitting a HR is hardly a fluke. 180 wRC+ bro

 

wrC+ in April doesn't mean a whole lot, the underlying statscast metrics are far more telling

[connorp]

wrC+ in April doesn't mean a whole lot, the underlying statscast metrics are far more telling

 

Well he 0 hrs coming in. Low slg% relatively speaking. So not a ton of padding. Solid bb/k rates. Been an objective good start

[BTS]

Joe Maddon asking Jimmy Herget for a 6-out save in a 1-run game, for some reason. Iglesias has pitched once in the last 3 days.

[Spanky__99]

Joe Maddon asking Jimmy Herget for a 6-out save in a 1-run game, for some reason. Iglesias has pitched once in the last 3 days.

 

Thanks... G'nite.

[max silver]

Meh, just a sss. Him hitting a HR is hardly a fluke. 180 wRC+ bro

 

I never said the home run was a fluke but the results for the rest of the season almost certainly are. As Jimcanuck mentioned early season WRC+ alone isn't terribly meaningful on it's own without peaking under the hood to see if that result is in any way sustainable. Grichuk can be happy with the results so far but he can't be happy with the quality of contact he's been producing. Do you think a .452 BABIP is something that's going to continue? He has a career BABIP of .292 for comparison. He's managed to build himself a bit of a cushion based on extreme good fortune with batted balls but he's due for a serious correction in the future.

[Krylian]

Angel Hernandez is trending on Twitter.

 

That can't be good. Lol

[BTS]

Angel Hernandez is trending on Twitter.

 

That can't be good. Lol

 

Schwarber just lost his s*** at him

[Omar]

Angel Hernandez is trending on Twitter.

 

That can't be good. Lol

 

Schwarber just lost his s*** at him

 

Wasn't even his worst call of the night.

[BTS]

Wasn't even his worst call of the night.

 

My god

 

[Masterbather]

My god

 

 

The first one didn't miss by much, especially slinging in from a lefty, that's a tough margin call. I think sometimes people expect too much. The second one...yeah that was crap.

[John_Havok]

The first one didn't miss by much, especially slinging in from a lefty, that's a tough margin call. I think sometimes people expect too much. The second one...yeah that was crap.

 

Thing is, that one close call on its own probably wouldn’t be thought of too much. But, if it was preceded by and followed by close to 20 other garbage calls….yeah

[Spanky__99]

My god

 

 

Thank God, he didn't mail in our game.

[Spanky__99]

The first one didn't miss by much, especially slinging in from a lefty, that's a tough margin call. I think sometimes people expect too much. The second one...yeah that was crap.

 

The egregious one's are inexcusable, this should be scraped.

[Deadpool]

The first one didn't miss by much, especially slinging in from a lefty, that's a tough margin call. I think sometimes people expect too much. The second one...yeah that was crap.

 

I expect the zone to be called accurately. If people can't do it (and we all know they cannot) then technology must be employed. I don't think that's "expecting too much".

[Brownie19]

I can't wait to see the umpire scorecard from last night's Brewers/Phillies game. Curious to see what % of calls that Angel got right. By eye, it looked like maybe 32%

[Masterbather]

I expect the zone to be called accurately. If people can't do it (and we all know they cannot) then technology must be employed. I don't think that's "expecting too much".

 

You're conflating my point. I never said it's expecting too much to expect an accurate strike zone, I suggested that it's difficult to make completely accurate calls on the margins and sometimes people expect too much from humans to call those 100% accurate. These are the best trained people in the world at this job and they still screw up. Some are worse than others, but none are perfect. At some point it's beyond human ability.

 

I am for a computerized K-zone by the way.

[Deadpool]

You're conflating my point. I never said it's expecting too much to expect an accurate strike zone, I suggested that it's difficult to make completely accurate calls on the margins and sometimes people expect too much from humans to call those 100% accurate. These are the best trained people in the world at this job and they still screw up. Some are worse than others, but none are perfect. At some point it's beyond human ability.

 

I am for a computerized K-zone by the way.

 

I have been banging the roboumps drum for over a decade now. I will never give an ump any credit for being "pretty good" or "having a hard job", because the strike zone shouldn't even be their job, and shouldn't have been for a long time now.