The all breakout studs team:
C - Trevor Brown
1B - Tyler White
2B - Scooter Gennett
3B - Eugenio Suarez
SS - Trevor Story
CF - Jeremy Hazelbaker
OF - Joey Rickard
OF - Gregory Polanco
UTIL - Aledmys Diaz
Just drop your entire Yahoo team for these guys if they are available, TBH. Throw Aaron Sanchez into the mix too.
Really good example. Players know it too; they don't really expect to get calls when they miss that bad. Anybody who doesn't realize this is probably just new to watching baseball (or stupid).
In related opinions - roboumps plz.
Sanchez wasn't getting close calls because Martin had to reach across the zone for most of them. Guys never get close calls when the catcher has to do that.
If he was hitting his spots, he got most of the calls.
No, his floor is --> elbow blows up from terrible mechanics, spends life on the DL, STRO eventually stops even texting him.
How did you get off my ignore list, anyway? Message board elves f***ing around again?
Still haven't learned much this start. So far it's a step back if it's anything.
No noticeable CH yet; CB looks like the old useless rainbow most of the time; command of the FB has been come and go.
How many truly unique and good looking curveballs did we really see against Tampa, aside from the strikeout pitch to Longoria? Maybe it was more fluke than anything.
Need to wait and see. It's possible that he's tried to segregate the thing into two pitches - 12-6 against lefties and slurve against righties?
They'll whip out the CH now I think.
Maybe it's cold. He actually popped 96 a few times right after I posted so I don't think it's a big dip after all, maybe 1 mph below his last game. Within normal g2g variation I guess.
I think the cold (not sure exact temps) has been demonstrated to take anywhere from 1-2mph off.
Other things that could make velo drop include losing release point or being injured, of course. There's also gun variance.