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  1. John_Havok
    Correct, this is due to the type I and type II muscle fibres and what they do in the body. Type I muscles fibres are slower to fatigue so they are the ones that get used the most in endurance activities like long distance running. Explosiveness is driven more by Type IIX muscle fibres, which has the most "power" in them, but they also fatigue the fastest.
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    Types of muscle in the human body is very much genetically dependent. Some people are born with more type I muscles than type IIA opr type IIX. Different muscles types have different sizes and characrteristics and are better at different things. Once you get past the formative years, the number of muscle fibres you have never changes, its just the fibres get larger in diameter if you work at strength training. Type I muscles fibres are smaller in diameter than type IIA which are in turn smaller in diameter than type IIX. So, someone born with more type IIA and type IIX will get far better results from strength training than someone with fewer type II muscles because those muscle fibres are the ones that have the capability to get larger. People with more type I muscles will not see that type of benefit by doing the same strength training as those with more type IIA and type IIX muscle fibres.
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    I agree that optics may seem worse, but the reality is that the specific goal of weight loss doesn't need to be achieved in a gym. But, that statement is also overly simplistic and doesn't address the mental side of it. Some people need to get our of their comfort zone in order to achieve it, that may be going to the gym rather than doing it at home. Some people need to focus more on nutrition vs the exercise. Some people can do whatever, wherever because it's just 2nd nature to them and their genetics are awesome. Some people can do everything right but are riddled with stress or mental issues that self-sabotage any results. I would probably guess Manoah is in the "focus more on nutrition" category. People who get to his level or pro sports don't generally lack in the effort department.
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    You're allowed to move too, keep that in mind.
  5. John_Havok
    Nah, sociopaths aren't generally like that, psychopaths fit that bill more. connorp would just be more likely to f*** a corpse if he found it on the road as long as it met his current racial target of conquest. He'd take it back to his place first though, doing it in public would be weird.
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    I'd totally watch a Rocky-esque Manoah training video, as long as he hits the frozen sides of beef with his his non-throwing hand only.
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    The general process of losing weight, increasing specific kinds of muscle, leaning out... whatever he needs from that perspective doesn't need to be done in an advanced baseball training compound though. The basics of those things can be done anywhere with virtually any equipment or just by using body weight. Heading to driveline or the Jays internal lab would be far more about fine tuning mechanics once the rest of it has been completed.
  8. John_Havok
    What an excellent debate. Interesting that of those 3 mentioned only 1 was a SS, you dont typically see alot of 1b and 2b guys super high in the rankings.
  9. John_Havok
    Bit early for this thread isnt it?
  10. John_Havok
    Connorp is a sociopath though, it feels to me like adding a stimulant to that soup is a recipe for disaster... or a really cool reality show.
  11. John_Havok
    These types of jobs are long term in nature. Just using Atkins as an example... he took over starting in 2016, but when did the team really start to resemble what he built vs what he was left with? I'd arguably say the latter part of 2019 was the first time you could really see his fingerprints on the actual team. 2016 was all basically leftovers, and 2017 and 2018 were just ... do the best you can to be not terrible with shorter term FAs while trying to restock the system through the draft and trades. 2020-2023 has objectively been successful in the regular season and has made the playoffs 3 times. Rogers is making boatloads of money off the Jays. In any sort of company review process, Atkins and Shapiro have been a smashing success from a corporate point of view. Fans point of view, basically if you don't win a world series, you should be fired every year.
  12. John_Havok
    Molecules that are "basically the same" can have incredibly wide ranging effects that vary quite a bit from one another though
  13. John_Havok
    I pity the poor bastard who has to treat a sociopath and suggests Adderall.
  14. John_Havok
    What difference would that even make? The process behind the trade would still happen if they had to do it over again, and it can't be walked back. Publicly stating the trade was a mistake makes no sense. Using the Dbacks current post season success as a measuring stick of the travel makes even less sense. Just because the Jays got something like a 20th percentile outcome this season doesn't mean the trade was a mistake. Had Varsho been injured by in spring training and missed half the season or more...would the trade still have been a mistake?
  15. John_Havok
    Red Sox finally hired their new president of Baseball Ops. Former pitcher Craig Breslow. He was with the Cubs org for the last little while and was apparently a rising star in the operations department
  16. John_Havok
    Mathematically then your still anti-kirk Just saying. If Anti-fat = true AND Kirk = fat, then Anti-kirk= true This post brought to you by the Association of Pedantic Dickheads everywhere. Find a chapter near you
  17. John_Havok
    THese questions and more with catcher ERA. It seems like a thing that "could" be real, but probably isn't as big of a thing as people think (like picking at 1B)
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    I never suggested otherwise. Being as unidentifiably unpredictable as possible just makes sense
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    What I mean is, if the change in release point isnt noticeable enough in real time from 60 feet away....it's not much of a concern.
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    True, still I wonder how it looks in real time. Even the guy in the article said he had to pause video to identify the tell. It's probably a lot harder to do from the batters box with a deceptive delivery and no pause button But, it is something I'm sure he's working on. If some reporter noticed it, guaranteed the performance complex and other teams have too
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    Interesting. Wonder how easy it is to identify that kind of difference at 60 feet in real time with that kind of deception in the delivery To me it's the positioning of his chin that sticks out way more. Fastball his head is tilted further backwards
  22. John_Havok
    It would be the height of idiocy to hit Garcia intentionally in a 2 run game, in the 8th, with a runner on and nobody out. I get why the umps think they had to toss him, but it was the wrong call. They should have tossed Garcia and not Abreu.
  23. John_Havok
    Yeah, Phillies have it I think. Maybe the DBacks win a game to give some glimmer of hope but Phillies are firing on all cylinders right now
  24. John_Havok
    I mean if they have to announce SS finalists yeah I guess he’d be top 3 but the gap to Seager is significant enough that even being nominated doesn’t mean much
  25. John_Havok
    I cant think of a single Jays hitter I could make a realistic argument for silver slugger. C - Adley 1b - Yandy 2b - Semien or Torres SS - Seager 3b - Paredes OF - Probably the most competition here but no Jay in sight. Tucker for sure. Then pick two of Julio, Robert Jr, Adolis Garcia, maybe Rooker and Arozarena have a shot. DH - Ohtani Utility silver slugger - who knows, but no Jays for sure.
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