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  1. Laika
    Yeah f*** Charlie Montoyo for making those errors and giving up those dingers. Such a horrible player manager.
  2. Laika
    welp now it's over
  3. Laika
    Glasnow can lose the zone. Still a chance, you losers.
  4. Laika
    Yeah pitch in. In any event it doesn't look like Ryu will be able to go deep.
  5. Laika
    Kyle Hendricks just gave up a 3 run HR on his 106th pitch of the game while facing the top of the lineup for the 4th time. hmmmm
  6. Laika
    I don't know why they chose Cole over Pearson, Borucki, several other options but I wonder if even a fresh AJ Cole is better than Shoemaker and Ray going through an order multiple times. Shoemaker had a terrible FIP this season and Ray sucked overall and was bad with Toronto too. AJ Cole had a decent year by ERA and FIP. I'm not letting you have any little piece of this. The fact that Cole gave up a bomb and they lost proves nothing. Toronto needs to use weird but thoughtful processes exactly like this to have any chance to win in the playoffs with this pitching staff.
  7. Laika
    This wasn't noticed by the broadcast or the public but I thought he looked hurt after scoring that run. He might only be healthy enough to pinch hit, again.
  8. Laika
    I'm not here to defend AJ Cole or the decision to go to him. It's not a connected matter IMO. They had lots of other options.
  9. Laika
    I think you need to either be in or out with strategies like this. It is either advantageous to have have him pitch the inning or it isn't. If you wait for a sign of trouble you're playing with fire and trying to use some middle-road, fence-sitting strategy like a huge loser would. It's dumb to think that one walk or a bloop single is a sign of trouble. Charlie Montoyo is not Nostradamus - he can't predict when Matt Shoemaker will give up a game-losing home run.
  10. Laika
    He was really interesting when he first started. He ran out of valuable stories and insight very fast.
  11. Laika
    RE: Shoemaker I understand that anti-analytics people love anecdotes and examples. Here is a good one for the Shoemaker decision. August 16th 2020 vs Tampa Bay Matt Shoemaker pitches three perfect innings to start the game. Comes out for the fourth. Out, single, walk (was ahead 0-2), strikeout (of a LHB on 5 pitches, so Shoemaker still looks great).... three run homer. Blink of an eye and he has a 6.75 ERA on the afternoon.
  12. Laika
    I read last week that MLB has already hinted/implied that they will just go with 2020 standings.
  13. Laika
    I'd probably throw the stats out the window and let Bauer throw 120+ pitches in this one.
  14. Laika
    sounds like the 2020 Reds
  15. Laika
    He's a hacker, not a walker. Have you seen his career / 2020 K and BB rates?
  16. Laika
    Reds are the ultimate dark horse and I would love to see Joey Votto and Trevor Bauer win... but I am hesitant to go all-in mentally because I think their pitching is overrated based on results and their opponents this year. Central pitchers were very lucky - lots of s***** offenses.
  17. Laika
    Uh they kind of needed a hero. Late and down multiple runs.
  18. Laika
    It missed the strike zone by like one inch. Move it a hair in one direction, or take a bit of spin or velocity off of it, and Teoscar might put that pitch in the seats. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/gamefeed?game_pk=635913&game_date=&type=pitch3d&chart_view=pitch&chart_type=call_name&inning=&count=&batter_hand=&pitcher_hand=&filter=&player=home-pitchers_664126&view=Umpire&coloring=Pitch%20Type
  19. Laika
    If he swung at it 3-0 then clearly he identified it out of the hand as the type of pitch he was looking for. It was a nasty 98 mph FB with rise, just a hair above the zone. The pitch is practically designed in a lab to deceive a hitter into thinking they can crush it until it is juuuust too late to stop the swing. Hitters making pitch identification mistakes are like, the most common think in baseball. It's the entire game, really. If everyone could judge a pitch correctly out of the hand and make decisions accordingly there would be no sport. Taking the basic 3-2 slider down the middle was what was actually a mental fart by Teoscar. Swinging at the 3-0 pitch was a justifiable decision with an understandably unfortunate result.
  20. Laika
    Ah yes. The baseball player swung at a ball. Inexcusable, really. Players should only be allowed to do things if they will succeed.
  21. Laika
    No. It was a very justifiable decision. The execution was poor. Or he just missed the pitch. I mean, it was a ball but IIRC it was still hittable.
  22. Laika
    It's almost like hitting is hard and sometimes a player thinks something is a good pitch when it isn't?
  23. Laika
    I've reversed a bunch of recent red flag adds and reduced the max IL size to 5.
  24. Laika
    They needed a big dinger to tie. MLB hitters hit like .400+ on 3-0 counts and slug a million. It's the most likely count to get a meatball.
  25. Laika
    Wow, this is the ultimate goal post move. You said players should not swing 3-0. Now you are saying players should not swing at balls.
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