Brownie19
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Biggio's at 4.1 WAR over his first 208 ML games. Kevin Smith has lots of good tools, always has, but I think we should be over the moon if he ends up better than Biggio.
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I'll say this - enjoy it while it lasts, but my god does baseball need someone like this. It is incredible.
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Ohtani had a nice week. Tuesday - HR Wednesday - HR Thursday - 6 IP 1 ER 5K W Friday - 2 HRs Saturday - HR Sunday - HR
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If Biggio is your expectation for Kevin Smith - you'll be disappointed. I think the word your looking for is 'ceiling'
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Buck, Blair....all those f***ing useless on-air personalities do this on a yearly basis. Rinse and repeat. They are horrible for the game of baseball IMO. -
General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2021)
Brownie19 replied to TwistedLogic's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
When was the last time a top 10 positional player was dealt at the deadline on an expiring contract? He could make a major impact for a playoff team and hopefully would be worth something very valuable in return (not that I'm saying we should deal him). -
That analogy is on point man.
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We need Jomboy to investigate. IIRC, rumors came out about the Astros trash can cheating and it was Jomboy who sifted through all the video and provided the very damning evidence. Jomboy is the hero we need.
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I've pitched for 30 years and unless it was raining or the ball was wet (because it was raining) - I've never once felt like I had issues gripping the ball and I never used rosin. Then again, I probably topped out at 75-80 MPH
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He was struggling to grip the ball early in the game because it was windy? WTF dude.
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2021)
Brownie19 replied to TwistedLogic's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
He never was bad. He just started the season slow and was fighting through an injury. -
Grichuk has been a negative defender the past 4 years (although playing 'out of position in CF' hasn't helped). He's in the 20th percentile for Outs Above Average and in the 9th percentile for Outfield Jumps. He's also been awful on the base paths this year. I'm not sure that's going to make up for those long cold stretches where he hits like Ryan Goins. The only reason you really consider it is because of how bad defensively Gurriel has been. I fully expect he'll continue to get lots of playing time - but I don't think he should be locked into the starting lineup once we get Springer back.
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Grichuk since May 8th 88 wRC+ 2.2 BB% 25.2 K% Tellez since May 8th 111 wRC+ 9.0 BB% 19.2 K% It will be interesting to see if we cut Grichuk's playing time when Springer returns (assuming he returns and plays CF). Predictably, Grichuk has gone cold and all the adjustments that Buck drools over each night aren't sustainable and/or don't matter. It's like clockwork.
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Dude - that's a candidate for worst post of the year. Congrats?
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I think it's a fair take. I think there's room for optimism for sure. I clearly remember them talking about how he changed his approach at the plate and that didn't work at all and lead to a horrible year in AA. He clearly has lots of tools (power, speed and very good defense IIRC) and players, more than ever, now have all the information necessary to make tangible adjustments to their swings/approaches to maximize those tools. Let's hope he keeps it up and becomes a player.
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This is accurate, but I will say that more often then not, he uses facts and is generally correct. That said, in this case, I'll say I think he's a little off base.
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Do you watch every team play? How else do you use the ole eye test to claim they are the worst in baseball? Maybe you could use the ole eye test to know there are plenty of avenues to voice or pile on your disgruntled view on the bullpens performance. A new thread for this is a bad as our bullpen.
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I'm with Jim on this. Although it was in the rule book, they have been blatantly ignoring it for years - just like they did with steroids (although I guess one might argue that 'not using steroids' wasn't technically in the rule book at the time). We've all seen videos of pitchers applying sunscreen in the bullpen during a night game - the league has seen that - they did nothing about it for a very long time. I was preaching like 2-3 years ago that teams would be developing something even better than sunscreen and rosin and it would become a competitive advantage. I'm not that smart so clearly the league aught to have expected this.
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Why didn't MLB establish this new protocol/suspensions/fines at the start of the year? They thought if they asked nicely that people would just stop using it?
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Did anyone post the video of Bauer sticking a ball to his palm with just rosin and sweat?
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Exactly - and with his extension, that 97 looks/feels like 103 at the knees. The guy is a freak of nature.
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Agreed - it's really unfortunate. The guy has one of the best arms and stuff I've ever seen. I love watching him pitch.
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The hitters due up is a decent argument - but the statistics apparently suggest that over the long run, this strategy is best one. The goal is to win the game - not extend it.
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Dude - there's an article like 3 posts above that explains the math and probability. The ghost runner 10th inning rule has changed the approach. The reality is you probably don't disagree with it because you have recency bias because it failed last night. I suspect that if Romano pitched a clean 9th and we lost in the 10th with Dolis on the mound, a large majority of fans would bitch about that decision too (and maybe rightfully so, as the numbers suggest you need a lights out guy for the 10th inning).
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I agree with this - as long as umpires are checking for it at the start of every inning. It should be a pretty simple check of the hat, glove, arms and neck. Won't interrupt the game. What I don't want to see now is managers having to go tell the umpire that they think the pitcher is using a foreign substance and have them inspect it mid-inning. That said, if the umpire sees a trend (of going to his forearm or whatever) then they should stop the game and check.
