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.
"They may leave [Mazara] down for a few weeks and just give Rua the position until then. Reports I saw suggested they don't expect Choo to miss much time though." - Abom
If one quote is a good sample size, you know nothing about anything!