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Pretty low, but would be cool if he won the batting title, as it would be the first time anyone had won it in consecutive years when switching leagues. Also, should Bo win the batting title in the AL this year, he and pops would become the first father/son combo to win batting titles.

Probably hurt now thanks to that damn thread

Well that’s just 81% accuracy on the called strikes, his overall accuracy was 91%. But, the worst overall accuracy this year so far was 84.4% by Emil Jimenez on May 8th. Here’s the scorecard:

Belt injury report imminent thanks to this thread

No harm in taking a flyer on Plesac, he still throws strikes at least.

Large decrease in pop up percentage, but…had he hit just 1 more pop up in there, would have been at 21%. Realistically his heater is fueled by 1 fewer pop up out of 2-3 fewer fly balls, maybe 1 less grounder, and each of those turning into line drives. Plus a monster walk rate. When you think about it that way it seems depressing, but at the same time illustrates the razor thin margins these guys deal with when being considered an elite bat, vs above average, vs average etc Would also be nice to get EV data, though it would probably just confirm that he’s in the elite average ev category

Only throws the fork about 20% of the time, much of the time with 2 strikes. Look for the fastball early and don’t miss the cookies, even though they’d gonna be coming in at 96. Looking at his heat maps, he really does throw a ton of hittable heart of the zone pitches with the fastball, sweeper and cutter.

Laughably bad 8th worst umpire in mlb this season for accuracy…sandwiched between known terrible umps Dan Iassogna and Vic Carrapazza. Not names you want around yours when it comes to umpiring and strike zone calling

This is a really tough pick day… On one hand, Senga tends to leave a ton of his fastballs, sweepers and cutters in the happy happy hitter zone….but on the other hand, they still don’t get hit hard because hitters are so wary of that forkball they’re timing is off. He walks 5 per 9… and has no real discernible l/r splits that would jump out as far as HRs given up go. f*** it, gimme Heineman

Thing was, it wasn’t even the injury that was the problem, bu the surgery to fit that caused nerve damage.

k, someone said May 21 was the start of the heater so.. . Here's Orelvis stats starting then with the fly ball running totals in brackets. Im checking the game days for the descriptions of the hits also whether they were line drives, grounders or flyballs. May 21 - HR, flyout, groundout, lineout, walk, groundout. (2 flyballs out of 5 batted balls) May 23 - strikeout, lineout, walk, single(ld) (2 flyballs total out of 7 batted balls) May 25 - walk, walk, single(ld), strikeout (2 flyballs total out of 8 batted balls) May 26 - strikeout, single(ld), groundout, walk, walk (2 flyballs out of 10 batted balls) May 27 - walk, strikeout, groundout, groundout, double (ld), walk, walk, groundout (2 flyballs out of 14 batted balls) May 28 - HR, walk, flyout, flyout, strikeout (5 flyballs out of 17 batted balls) May 30 - strikeout, lineout, flyout, groundout, single(flyball) (7 flyballs out of 21 batted balls) May 31 - flyout, popout, HR, walk (10 flyballs out of 24 batted balls, 1 pop fly included) June 1 - single(groundball), lineout, walk, HR, double(flyball) (12 flyballs out of 28 batted balls, 1 popfly included) June 2 - double(groundball), strikeout, flyout, walk (13 flyballs out of 30 batted balls, 1 popfly included) June 3 - strikeout, groundout, groundout, popout (14 flyballs out of 33 batted balls, 2 popouts included) There ya go. FB rate is 42.4%, Popout rate is 14.3%. 54 PAs, 13 walks, 8 strikeouts, 8 line drives, 4 HRs, 3 doubles, 5 singles. 8 hits on 29 balls in play

2-1 game not surprising today given the size of the umps strike zone. Absolute garbage today from blue

Only thing you can do is go through the game logs on baseball savant day by day from start date to end date and track it manually…as far as I know.

Seems to be an effort to layoff borderline pitches until 2 strikes up and down the lineup today, sans Vlad. Maybe something is starting to sink in

Ump show. At least 2 inches outside, maybe more

Great breaking balls today from Berrios so far. Good sign

Locations for sure, maybe not the actual pitch

No runs,….but with the exception of Vlad, every hitter had a good PA and made pretty good swing choices. CHappy got beat by a good slider and Merrifield hit it well, just right at the D.

You’re not wrong.

If that wasn’t a hit and run, which it obviously wasn’t, why was Vladdy looking to the plate? That slows a runner down

Death, taxes and Vlad swinging first pitch at non strikes with runners on base for weak contact ground balls.

June 3 Bichette - 2 Points Vladdy - 4 Points - JaysAllMighty Chapman - 4 Points Varsho - 4 Points - jaysblue Springer - 4 Points Belt - 6 Points - Abomination, Jonn, John_Havok Kirk - 8 Points - Dylan Merrifield - 10 Points - wilko, WryNGinger, Jays4life69 Kiermaier - 12 Points - stangstag, Candy Maldonado Off the bench: 20 Points - spanky, Omar

Here comes Yimi for the 8th probably then. Start praying

No doubt, soon as that second throw over I thought…he’s stealing next pitch and it won’t be close.

Oh sweet baby Jesus Yimi is warming up.