John_Havok
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Gonna need the grounds crew to go fix a crater near 2nd base after that “slide”
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Great play by the D though, gotta give credit to Riley there.
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Robbed again. Xba of .610
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Good job getting out of it, now let’s get some sticks going against this shitballer
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Yeah…CHappy makes that play 99/100
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Fuuuuck CHappy, that’s where we need ya to make a play…dangit
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3 outs by the jays with xba’s of .470, .560 and .800
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2023)
John_Havok replied to Krylian's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
He put it all together one start, struck out 17 in a complete game 1 hitter, with the one hit glancing off a diving Aaron Hill’s glove with 2 outs in the 9th. Probably the single best pitching performance by a Jays pitcher ever. That was a great series overall too, they swept the Rays in the Longoria, Crawford and Zobrist days, Cecil went 7 innings of 1 run, 4 hit ball in game 1…Arencibia made his mashing debut in game 2, then Morrows historic gem in game 3 -
However they were aligned in the past, they are aligned the way they are now to try and have as close to the same kind of travel as possible. It can never be perfect of course because central teams by default will travel less miles to the west coast and less to the east coast. West teams travel the most, east the second most and central the least on average.
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Vladdy - 2 Point - Bichette - 2 Point - Chapman - 4 Points - Varsho - 4 Points - jaysblue Springer - 4 Points - Omar Belt - 6 Points - JohnHavok Jansen - 8 Points - Merrifield - 10 Points - JaysAllMighty Kiermaier - 12 Points - Off the bench: 20 Points - Abomination, Sparky, WryNGinger
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Bassitt just pitched the best game of his career. f***ing excellent!
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And that’s the ball game! Murphy down swinging
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2 down. 1 left
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1 down, 2 to go
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CHappy chasing a lot lately. Needs to bring that swing back in the zone
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Varsho! Jonn +2 +1
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If ya cant layoff a fastball at your eye level... this is going to be a 90 minute game
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You were saying ...
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Picking is locked
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To a point... they are. But xFIP is still a decent first glance # for the vast majority of pitchers.
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It's not that you need to have faith in every stat like xFIP you just have to undertand what type of pitcher would typically beat those numbers. Pitchers that have somehow mastered the soft contact result are exactly those types. Knuckleballers fall into that category too. The reason xFIP works well for the majority of pitchers is because most guys haven't figured out the soft contact thing because they can't. Some pitchers get the soft contact results far more often than others due to having mastery of a trick pitch, like a knuckler, or thorwing the kitchen sink like Bassitt where hitters really have no clue what's coming and and up with weak contact. Very few pitchers can do this, and those pitchers also find themselves walking a pretty thin tightrope from being usefull... to useless. It takes one small dip in command and they get annihilated.
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May 12 Vladdy - 1 Point - Dylan Bichette - 1 Point - JohnHavok Chapman - 2 Points - Stangstag Varsho - 2 Points - Jonn Springer - 2 Points - Spanky Belt - 3 Points - JaysAllMighty, JaysBlue Kirk - 4 Points - WryNGinger, wilko Merrifield - 5 Points Kiermaier - 6 Points Off the bench: 10 Points
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Bassitt is the kind of pitcher who would probably always be a beater of those metrics too (xFIP or xwOBA) since he lives by soft contact rather than swing and miss. He'll be that way until he loses that last degree of command that makes his pitches crushable more often.
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Tonights game scares the f*** out of me for the hitters. Only Varsho and Belt have even faced Strider before.
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Horwitz is basically Ryan Noda if you cut Noda's K rate by a third, but also reduce his power by a ton. If Oakland didn't already have Noda, they'd probably give up something for him.
