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  1. John_Havok
    I’d like to see the curve more early in counts for strikes, and he really needs to get to changeup in a better place (it’s too hard) to be more than a 4-5 kid of guy. He could easily be better than Stripling if he figures out the changeup.
  2. John_Havok
    What makes it worse is that he called a slider in virtually the identical spot a ball against Kirk. Why is he handing out fastball strikes there but getting the sliders right? If anything the slider should be the pitch that might get that call given it’s trajectory in coming across the plate, whereas the fastball starts out there and stays out there.
  3. John_Havok
    It’s a bad sign for Espinal when he’s become the kind of hitter they shift against. He has got to get back using the whole field.
  4. John_Havok
    Cole is about to implode out there
  5. John_Havok
    Can understand why Cole is pissed, that JBJ double was inches from being caught, and ditto the Kirk hit. Gotta love baseball. Fractions of an inch on the contact between ball and bat is the difference between giving up 1 run vs 3
  6. John_Havok
    Shut em down here and get a few more. 3 runs ain’t enough
  7. John_Havok
    I need a much bigger lead before I’m comfortable needing the pen to finish out 5 innings, especially with Romano out
  8. John_Havok
    That’ll work too
  9. John_Havok
    Time for the Major League special, strat the runners and have JbJ bunt up the 3b line.
  10. John_Havok
    Wow, that’s a cameraman fail of epic proportions
  11. John_Havok
    You kinda answered your own question about fWAR, bWAR and then mentioning babip. fWAR doesn’t give a s*** about what his babip actually is since a pitcher cannot control the outcome of a batted ball event.
  12. John_Havok
    It’s not his walks that are the problem, it’s the K rate combined with the pop up rate. Pop ups are basically strikeouts and his Iffb rate is more than 25%. 56% of his PAs are virtually worthless.
  13. 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
  14. John_Havok
    I wonder what an MLB ID looks like.... and how I can make a fake one.
  15. 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.
  16. 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
  17. 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.
  18. John_Havok
    good point
  19. 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.
  20. 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
  21. 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.
  22. John_Havok

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    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
  23. John_Havok
    Yes
  24. John_Havok
    Near sighted gynocologist
  25. 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.
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