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  1. John_Havok
    He really doesnt though. If they're they're on the inner half IN the strike zone... damage. Inside... he has nearly 0 damage (unless you count the foul balls to the shins, feet and knees). https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/george-springer-543807?stats=statcast-r-zones-mlb
  2. John_Havok
    I wonder what an MLB ID looks like.... and how I can make a fake one.
  3. John_Havok
    If there was a stat kept for fouling balls of your own legs, Springer would lead the majors by a ton. hell that one game he fouled a ball off both his legs on the same pitch. He brings it on himself though because he cant lay off those pitches 3 and 4 inches off the inner edge.
  4. John_Havok
    Yeah, your points are what I was trying to get at. Trying to find players that excel at 1 or 2 of the things mentioned isn't all that hard, the naked numbers are available, but weighting them into a cause and effect type of process that enables a teacm to teach the weaker aspects to get more out of your players is the ultimate goal Contact rate + bad swing decisions and not a great barell rate and you end up with Tapia or Pillar. add a much better barrel rate and you get Bo Bichette 2021. Contact rate + elite exit velo but not so great swing decisions but still a decent barrel rate and you get Vlad Guerrero 2022
  5. John_Havok
    It wouldnt necessarily be a statistic, more of a player evaluation measure that would hopefully be predictive of results, or identify guys that might only need to improve 1 aspect of the total package to break out.
  6. John_Havok
    good point
  7. John_Havok
    So if you have the apple TV app, do you just need to sign in and watch or do you actually have to have an apple tv subscription? I'll never buy an apple TV subscription ever, so just checking.
  8. John_Havok
    I was kicking around an idea of stats last night and ... hard hit and exit velocity are great and all, but if youre not contacting enough baseballs overall, what good is it? LIke, if Im starting from the ground up on a hitter and want to prioritize skills.... my first skill wanted would be contact rate. If the skill we want in our pitchers is the ability to miss bats, then logically, the skill we want in our hitter is the ability to not miss balls. So, Skill 1 - contact. Then what... barrel rate? Exit velocity? Swing decisions? Swing path? Which of those would be prioritized and to what level does one have to be higher to overcome a failure in the others? Would swing decisions be the second most important right after contact? Im thinking out loud here... 1. Contact 2. Swing Decisions 3. Barrel Rate 4. avg exit velo what am i missing in this list that would be really important
  9. John_Havok
    Ive never watched on Apple, but the Youtube ones.... i turn the audio off because the commentary, while attempting to be more current with more modern stats, still sucks a huge amount of ass.
  10. John_Havok

    NHL Thread

    John_Havok replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    Treliving has done a pretty excellent job in the offseason. Replaced Johnny and Tkachuk with Huberdeau and Kadri ... and got a damn fine defenseman plus a prospect and pick out of Florida. really well done
  11. John_Havok
    Yes
  12. John_Havok
    Near sighted gynocologist
  13. John_Havok
    Eat a dick ya uphill gardening troglodytic bike! They made a series now about A League of Their Own, might check it out if it doesn’t end up being a woke-fest.
  14. John_Havok
    I’m think Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own would be pretty close. “I especially liked that move in the 5th inning where you scratched your balls for an hour.” “Well anything worth doin is worth doin right”
  15. John_Havok
    Disagree completely on the Merrifield/Biggio comparison. It’s not even close defensively
  16. John_Havok
    Meh, I’m mostly just trolling, I just wonder if they’d still be doing it if they were down by 7 instead of up by 7. Like, if it’s soooo important to get work on a regular schedule, why not use him yesterday in a 6-1 game? If the answer to the first question is no, then …. waiting another day isn’t a big deal
  17. John_Havok
    Oh no! 5 days? Is he going to wither and die if he waits one more day? Is he going to forget how to pitch suddenly if he doesn’t get into a game tonight and just start throwing knuckleballs because…omg what does he do if he doesn’t get in to THIS game?
  18. John_Havok
    , K Romano does not need to be throwing in this game…that’s just stupid. Gotta love Shulman trying his best not to roast Schneider for having him up and throwing when what he really wants to say is “wtf are you doing?”
  19. John_Havok
    It’s not that he doesn’t trust it, he can’t actually command it. It’s 50/50 if it’s right down the middle or not.
  20. John_Havok
    Meh, he faced one guy, it’s not like he won’t be available tomorrow if needed.
  21. John_Havok
    Abreu looks like Kikuchi out there with his body language. Not confident at all.
  22. John_Havok
    Man, if Gurriel can somehow get his power stroke back…he might actually be dangerous again.
  23. John_Havok
    Lol, that’s on the 2b, not Donaldson, that throw was very catchable
  24. John_Havok
    This is okay, limit the damage to 2 runs and it's all good.
  25. John_Havok
    10 pitches, 8 strikes - that's how you do this pitching thing.
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