John_Havok
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GOing with Trout and Desmond Jennings today.
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I like Lind tonight.
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What is the Kevin Seitzer hitting approach?
John_Havok replied to Spoonovic's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I don't think Seitzer's approach can be narrowed down to "patience." He wants the same thing any of the last 3 hitting coaches want the Jays to do, go up with a plan and stick to it until you get to two strikes. The difference in Seitzer is he's trying to convince guys like Edwin, Jose, Rasmus (ie dead pull hitters) that if you're at two strikes and you need to protect the strike zone, you can't take a home run cut on a borderline pitch, just use a controlled swing, get a piece of it and fould it off, or if it's against a shift, go the other way with it for a dinky single instead of coming out of your shoes and popping it up 200 feet. He's also trying to explain to these guys that not every pitch is going to be a fastball and they need to be more selective in what they swing at with less than two strikes. Just because it's in the strike zone doesn't mean you have to swing, unless there's 2 strikes. -
Didn't catch the game but that's a huge win, especially with Lowry out.
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Most fans tend to look at last years win total, then see no real turnover in the roster, and automatically seem to think that this year the Jays are starting out as a 74 win team at best. It's faulty and severely flawed thinking, but it is what it is. Any team that does well in any season usually sees several things go their way. Breakouts from players you don't expect, limited problems with injuries especially with key players, and almost always, pitching that outperforms everyone's expectations. There's no real way to predict this though, but it has just as good a chance as happening to the Jays as any other team. It's just unlikely. This team does have a lot of chronic injury bug players, look no futher than Reyes going down on the first AB of the season. There's a very decent chance that several key players will miss 100-150 Ab or 5-10 starts each, but... maybe not. Who knows? If they're all healthy, we'll be in it. If not, probably not.
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Legit burst out laughing with that...
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Gimme Edwin.
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This time McCutchen screwed me, took 3 walks .... back to 0 Taking Smoak and Cano... Chavez pitching for Oakland should yield plenty of hits, he's always around the strike zone. Guess I cant make a pick in the sportsnet daily thing, apparently the cutoff to get any pick in the the start of the earliest game, which is bloody retahded.
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yes you're wrong, but only because you need clarification. There's a rule that says the second time the manager goes to the mound to visit the pitcher in an inning, he has to make a change. It's not about how many times he just comes on the field itself.
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Trout f***ed me last night or I'd be at 4... back to 0 but I'll give Trout a chance to redeem himself along with McCutchen. Taking Texas over philly in the Sportsnet thing
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Clearly a slip of the tongue. He wanted to mention Hanigan's thighs
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And that bad call basically forces Navarro to swing at the next pitch even though it's also outside.... f***ing umps...
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Wow, two really close takes. Nice discipline Lind.
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His swing is okay, he's just not really adjusting to what the pitchers are doing to him. He and Jose are so 1 dimensional, a good pitcher can really exploit them. He missed the mistake in that AB, but he was right on it
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Nice to see Cobb close to 100 pitches in the 5th. Get into that pen
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Oh Eddie, juuuuust missed that one
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Christ Jose... Not every pitch is going to be a fastball. You've seen the same pitch like 10 times tonight in and you still can't pick it up...
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It didnt but that's one of those locations that's rarely called consistently just because it's so close the extreme upper corner
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I really wonder if umps go back at the end of the game and check on the strikes they missed... Usually it's in the same area multiple times
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Loney is a middle infield stalwart... Jesus Tabby...
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It's amazing what a guy with more than 1 pitch can do against hitters
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Ban.
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I think he's owned in less than 0 percent of all fantasy leagues....
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Nice stolen base there too, good time for it with Melky up. Worst case he's thrown out and Melky starts the next inning
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Wow Lawrie's speed is very underrated I think, there's lots of guys that would have easily been gunned at home there
