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  1. For context on Judge's season... Goldschmidt is wrecking the world with the bat and is still more than 3 fWAR behind him (some of that is defense related).
  2. It would take quite a collapse for the Jays not to make the playoffs, even a split with the Rays in Tampa would virtually seal one of the wildcard spots. Orioles schedule is about 50/50 in terms on easy/hard. Next 3 against the Tigers, then 4 against Houston, 4 against Boston but then they finish up with 3 against the yankes and 3 vs the Jays. Chances are their fate will be sealed prior to the Yankees series.
  3. Milwaukee up on the Yanks by 1 in the 4th
  4. Pretty simple message here from Walker. “you’re better than the bottom of the lineup, get after them”
  5. Lol that was pisspoor pitch selection for the Os there. Blow to 95mph fastballs through a guy, he swings late indicating he’s sitting on something offspeed…the pen throw an offspeed pitch to him. Deserved to give up a bomb, lucky it was only a double
  6. Just use wOBA and wRC and boil your argument down into 1 sentence. Soto has been demonstrably better than Bo with the stick and it’s not really close. Defense Bo closes the gap a bit although I really don’t think Soto is as bad a defender as his numbers show this season, seasons past he’s been right around average. Chances are he won’t be Manny Ramirez bad going forward.
  7. Basketball didnt start with a shot clock either, but after a few years they realized they needed one to keep the action going smoothly
  8. One thing that I dont get about the logic of creditting players with a sacrifice... LIke, if you bunt to get a guy from 2nd to 3rd or 1st to 2nd... it's a sacrifice. If you hit a fly ball that scores the runner from third... sacrifice. But hitting a fly ball out that advances the runner to 2nd or 3rd, just a normal out. Why no sacrifice on a play like that? It's not like when a player is up there with a runner on third and less than 2 outs they're actively trying to give themselves up with a flyball, that's just what happens. So why is only a sacrifice if the runner scores?
  9. Gotta stop the changeup, they know its coming. Shelve it FFS
  10. catchers interference on 0-2 count... just... f*** off
  11. They must have picked up a tell on his changeup, they're just all over it.
  12. Yup. he's so stuck into protecting against the slider right now he's just a tick late on those heaters. He'll get there though.
  13. Doesnt need to be skinny, just going from bowling ball to bowling pin would be a great start
  14. Yup, Os are sitting all over the change up, literally spitting on everything else. If he can spot his fastball today he can breeze through this lineup.
  15. I really hope he takes his fitness to heart this offseason. He could have an incredible career if he shaves down 30-50 pounds. Being a catcher with his build already in his early 20s (if not improved) is a near certain recipe for being out of baseball by 30.
  16. Nah, was referring to the previous games against them in the last series. If you watch the MLB recap videos, when something good happens for the Orioles, you hear their broadcasters on the recap and it was so bad.... its really hard to describe how homeristic and ball sucking it was.
  17. It’s really just the last month and a half. Prior to maybe the middle of July he was brutal.
  18. The Os broadcasters are just excited they can finally call games for a team that isn’t a complete dumpster fire. Give them a break! They absolutely gush over everything that goes their way though, like if someone hits a ball through the shift it’s like “go ahead and shift on him, he doesn’t care, he just hits it through you!…” like the guy does it every time or is the next coming of Ty Cobb….in reality it happens 1 out of 10 times but yeah, let’s celebrate.
  19. I don’t mind it either, it’ll just be peaks and valleys for the most part. For a fine defensive catcher he’s decided that has to be his approach. So be it. He’s making it work
  20. We’ve been talking about Guerrero for the last like 10 pages…
  21. Good win . Rays lose. Mariners losing but still plenty of time for the Angels to f*** that up. Not sure I like seeing 7 pitchers used in a win, but here’s hoping for length out of the starter tomorrow.
  22. Not sure that matters given he sucked in 2020 as well playing out of a minor league park.
  23. Just don't throw Vlad a splitter and youre okay.
  24. To follow up on your train of thought: 2021 Swing visual: 2022 Swing Visual Not hard to see where the gap is. He's objectively worse in all of the Heart, Shadow and Chase zones. Heart: swinging less, taking more. Shadow and Chase: Swinging more, taking fewer pitches, and the ones he is taking arent the ones he should be taking given the -7 run value in the Shadow zone. It may partially explain the uptick in grounders if he's swigning at more of the pitcher's pitches, but probably not the whole story as far as the grounders goes.
  25. Any series win is a successful series no matter who the opponent is.
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