Brownie19
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If by progress you mean he's decreased his launch angle this year - then yes.
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In all seriousness though - this is why the Jays locked up Grichuk when they did. They felt there was potential to take the next step as a hitter, while the floor was super high at $10M per
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This is why Grich was taken before Trout!!!
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If Nate and Vlad were even league average, we're probably sitting above .500 in the playoff hunt. Add in a major league manager and we'd be laughing. Instead we get this.
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Drury hitting 6th. This lineup is god awful. When the f*** is Fisher back?
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General 2020 Blue Jays Discussion Thread
Brownie19 replied to Bobthe4th's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
It's going to take the full 60 games (+ probably another 60 next year) for me to buy that Grichuk has made sustained improvements to his game. When he's hot he's hot and he's hot right now. Buck did his annual talk about how Grichuk's made real adjustments at the plate last night - how he's swinging at 'his pitches' and thinking up the middle. I hope that's not where this discussion originated from because only sheep would take anything Buck says seriously. I wish Jomboy would do a breakdown of how Buck's made the same claim about Grichuk (and Pillar before that) for the past 5-7 years. -
Why don't Buck and Shulman know that Castro's only be averaging 98 MPH with the fastball for last year and this year?
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Nice backup Vlad. You sit there an conserve your energy you fat f***.
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Buck thinks Yamaguchi is going to pitch 3 innings tonight. Buck is stupid.
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Holy f*** then - talk with Angel and you guys can go get your eyes tested together.
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Pearson should be sent down.
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The odd thing is both Buck and Shulman don't recognize this either....they continue to just bitch that he didn't throw his fastball more. So dumb.
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If you watched the game, you'd know he's throwing it way more today because he can't locate the fastball at all.
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This is depressing.
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3 minutes later "this is where you have to pitch to the scoreboard"
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fify
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Que Buck on the 'how to pitch with the lead' speech. Pitch to contact, pitch to the score.
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We've seen this before. He's just hot. He won't be hot forever. But leave it to Buck to talk about how he's changed his approach and he's a new hitter now. Pretty sure Buck says the exact same thing every year, only to be proven wrong every year.
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It's true though. Everyone thought Vlad and Pearson were elite prospects who would hit the ground running in the majors. Both look like they should be in the minors.
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Yeah I've had that happen too. Just to refresh.
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Except he missed the spot by about 3 feet? Jansen wanted that up and away.
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2020 for the Blue Jays. Teoscar is hitting like we thought Vlad would, while Vlad's hits like Tellez. Jacob Waguespack has been much better than Pearson, who's xFIP & FIP are now over 6.00.
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I f***ing hate Hosmer
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I was really just curious if he actually 'hits the ball hard' (I was looking at this yesterday when I realized Fangraphs now had Statcast information). It's nice that he hit the ball REALLY hard a few times last year at elite levels, but overall - his #'s were around the league median. It's gotten a lot better this year. It will be interesting to see if he maintains those levels. Out of Soto, Tatis, Eloy and Acuna (who I just added), the biggest 1 year jump was Soto, who raised both stats about 15%. Acuna hit the ball as hard as he does in 2020 as he did in 2018 as a 20 year old. But I get it, Vlad was 20 last year and there aren't a lot of case studies for comparison.
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And as per Baseball Savant over a full season in 2019, Vlad was 54th percentile in EV and 47th percentile for Hard Hit%, which reinforces what I was showing. Despite the ground balls, it is positive to see his numbers rise this year. I believe EV stabilize quickly, so it may not be a SSS. To conclude - he didn't hit the ball hard last year (compared to the rest of the league); however, he's definitely trending in the right direction this year over his first 19 games. I was just checking guys like Soto, Tatis, Acuna and Eloy - they all hit the ball a lot harder than Vlad in their rookie years, although you can also see improvements over their first couple of years (although Eloy and Acuna haven't changed much).
