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Remember when the bullpen was bad? Lol

What’s up now you freaking turd? 131 wRC+ as I type this is that good or bad Ron DeSantis Elon Musk Elon Degeneres Ellen Page Mail Order Bride Morocco Mistress curry curry islam womens rights mens rights travel ball bald midgets Danny Jansen Danny Jansen Danny f***ing Jansen

It's weird to say it but a Vlad extension almost has more to do with the person than the stats. Like yes - on paper, just looking at WAR record and projections, he's not a superstar worthy of a mega deal. But he has shown his upside on the field. So the extension is basically about him as a person. His mental side. There can be "upside" for the team on a big money extension if they bet on him as a personality and he proves them right, through hard work and adjustments and all that stuff. If you WAIT for him to become the bona fide superstar worth every dollar then the team probably has no upside on the contract.

Look, nothing was misunderstood. No goalposts were moved. It's patently obvious that Vlad is getting destroyed by breaking balls down and away The hitting coach decided to talk in that article about.... sinkers.... and down and in pitches.... He looks like a moron. It is what it is.

Even Cronenworth was developed entirely by the Rays. Tatis of course was developed by the Padres but signed by the White Sox. It's literally just Morejon and Campusano in the "drafted and developed" category lmao ah wait and some Steven Wilson f*** I've never heard of

Yes it's hard to get value in trades, consistently. There is a ruthless game between competing teams where they wield privileged knowledge on the players + potentially advanced and secret projection data. Every trade is a little dance with a devil. And you layer context on top of that; teams making deadline acquisitions never get objective "fair value". And it's baseball so player projections can change somewhat rapidly. Also, we now have decent data to support the idea of players "pressing" that is to say trade and free agent acquisitions tend to do a bit worse for some period than their projections because they "press" or try too hard. The Padres being 98% trade and FA acquisitions is a recipe for disaster. You can get a weird little positive feedback loop / cascade of players "pressing" and underperforming. It's kind of funny. Like Soto being disappointing so far might even have a mental effect on the hitters around him, most of which are also pretty new to the organization.

The Padres entire roster was acquired from trade or free agency with the exception of like one dude (Adrian Morejon) This is just so obviously NOT how you build a team.

cram it up yer cramhole old man

Like you have to be a f***ing moron to think that sinker approach is the problem run production: 2021, 2022 4-Seamers: +32, +7 Sliders: +10, -3 Sinkers: +7, +3 Changeup: +2, -4 this is black and white data, right there on statcast f*** you you f***ing twerp and your "so no, your point is incorrect" garbage shove that s*** directly up your ass and twist it around until it hurts you fartface bike licker

Alright teams will keep throwing sliders down and away and Vlad and coach will work on inside outing sinkers Good chat

Doesn't change my point

Hopefully Gausman is an Ace, man, or McClanahan sucks in his first game back

Okay but it's just stupid and bizarre to focus on sinkers down and in, at all. We can see from the data that the main uptick in pitching strategy is pitches down and away. And the main loss in productivity is against four seamers (25 runs worse this year) and sliders (13 runs worse this year). He is only 4 runs worse against sinkers. Dare I say, the hitting coach is an idiot and they are focusing on the completely wrong thing? It all comes back to the damn down and away slider and then his mental adjustments to that pitch.

Kind of weird that the coaches don't seem to make a distinction between pitches down and in and pitches down and away It seems like Vladdy is able to use his A swing on pitches down and in and elevate them often enough Most of the clips at the top of the article are pitches down and in. Even the one pitch away is more middle away than down and away... It's down and away that is the problem "“His natural path works well with four-seamers up in the zone and when it comes to hitting sinkers or down and in, you want to think more of an inside-out type of swing," said Blue Jays hitting coach Guillermo Martinez."" Like this quote is weird... Guillermo the problem is breaking balls down and away not sinkers down and in "“Ideally you don't want to swing at their pitches. (Guerrero) knows if there's a guy that's throwing down and in on him, the job is to see it up and push him out and over,” said Martinez. “I always say that you have to understand the start of the pitch to understand that start of the swing. If it's a four-seamer, you want to get a little bit above it. If it's more of sinker, then you have to stay closed and stay inside it. When he's consistent doing that, he's very dangerous.” Again, what the f*** is he talking about. They are trying to get Guerrero to slash sinkers down and in the other way? Who the f*** cares?

Ross Stripling kind of saved our season eh

people think baseball is a complicated sport but it's really simple there are only two good ways to hit pull homers or bunt grounders the opposite way everything in between is noise. unprofessional noise.

Yeah I was looking at this data earlier but was too lazy to post the pictures. It's probably a big enough % change to mess with a hitter.

It's the most poorly constructed team I can think of, in a long time. Like an old early moneyball team before defensive stats were a thing

It's mostly just Vaughn being out of position lmao CWS -39 runs defensively Andrew Vaughn -22.5 runs defensively LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Sheets blows too of course. They have multiple DHs in the lineup on any given night.

Nothing Teoscar does is professional. Have you seen his facial hair?

boner

I would love to see someone do some professional hitting coach style analysis of Vlad's current swing, from the open side view. I wonder what the mechanical flaws are.

Part of me thinks Vlad's current mental funk is the result of a string of s*** luck. As stupid as that sounds. It seems like a lot of the times this year when he goes to the plate with a patient approach the pitcher just happens to paint two perfect sliders on the lower outside corner that clip the zone, or get a call when the ball is just outside. I think that has happened enough this year to just completely f*** him up to be honest. Now he's lost. This is purely anecdotal of course. It's like he is there at the plate some of the time EXPECTING to have to make contact with a perfect, pitcher's pitch of a slider. This makes him swing at a whole bunch of garbage stuff off the plate and it also contorts him against meatballs and pitches on the inner half.

Bo Bichette vs the world nobody else is even putting together consistent professional at bats

Vlad GIDP to end it?