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Pics or gtfo!

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It took me a while, but I can now see him batting right and it's got me curious. Other than the way the feet point forward, it's pretty much a mirror image or left and right. What do you guys think?

Sidearm throw, too! I was a baby in the 80s, so I fell in love with him when he returned to the Jays in the late 90s. Loves that unorthodox batting stance. He was so graceful at the plate and on the field. Que Descanse En Paz, Tony Fernandez

Sad news... he was one of my favourites growing up.

Highly doubt it.

In Manfred's report it said "one or two bangs corresponded to certain offspeed pitches, while no bang corresponded to a fastball." They were mostly taking the offspeed pitches they knew were coming, because more often than not those pitches end up being balls. And then they were teeing up on the fastballs.

I was going to post the same thing But, come on, there's no way he does his own social media stuff. It's some intern's fault, probably. Or maybe the Jays 'social media strategy' team.

What do you mean? I thought the bangs were to alert if they were offspeed...

A fan did a study of every pitch in 58 home games that year and found that while plenty of players were receiving alert bangs, 7 of the 9 in the starting lineup around 18%, Jose Altuve only had alert bangs on 2.8% of pitches. http://signstealingscandal.com/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiossports&stream=top

Look at what an angry Astros fan named Tony Adams spent the last few weeks doing: This is very interesting: Games available: 58 Pitches watched: 8,274 Trash can bangs: 1,143 (13.8% of pitches) And even more interesting is that the frequency of bangs fell abruptly on Sep. 22, which was the day after the Astros nearly got caught in the act by the White Sox. I'm going to post this in the Altuve poll thread: Bangs could be heard in 18.1% of the pitches that Carlos Beltrán, the only player implicated in the commissioner's report, faced during the 58 games covered in the study (similar percentages for Gattis, Bregman, Correa, Springer, Gonzalez, and Gurriel) But check this: that number plummets to 2.8% for José Altuve. http://signstealingscandal.com/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiossports&stream=top

“Steroid McCarthyism”

Are a hitter's early-age mechanics/swing form grooved into his neurological patterns and thus important to develop hitters at a very young age?

Ask him how he would help Kevin Smith after the year he had.

If they wanted a manager who would stand up to the media and deflect the questions that will inevitably haunt them all year, they could've done better than Dusty f***ing Baker. Literally any old man in his 60s or above would have handled the media well this year, brushing off excessive questions with a bit of cheer here and a lot of grumpiness there, using his age as an advantage that way. But why is everyone in the media talking about credibility here? He's the guy who coined the term 'steroid McCarthyism.' Here's what former GM David Samson had to say about it: "Dusty Baker's going to be in that dugout and get told what to do by a GM, someone who is his grandson's age?" Samson asked. "Is that the plan for you Jim Crane? Or did you hire Dusty Baker because you knew that Major League Baseball wanted there to be some level of credibility in that dugout? Where you knew you'd have to give control to someone like [buck] Showalter, [John] Gibbons, someone that has managed before. But you also knew you were going to go minority. You also knew you wanted to go with someone that was a player's manager. Who can really make sure that the clubhouse is always good, who can keep out outside distractions." He then goes on to laugh at the idea, being put out by all the mainstream baseball writers, that Dusty Baker commands such respect that the media will ask fewer questions of the Astros this year.

Yup...

Absolutely. My partner is in her 20s and I am in my (mid) 30s—age gap of more than 10 years—and this only seems to bother women my age. What Fiers did was predatory. Teenagers are children. There was a site that had all the tweets and screenshots up and it looked pretty conclusive, but it's since been taken down. Hard to comment on it now that I don't have the stuff right in front of me. I'm not cynical enough to believe this is payback for ratting on the Astros (no offence, Hurl), but the timing couldn't be worse.

I'm making you the fashion police of BJMB.

There is (almost) no such thing as a pitching prospect.

Funny thing is MLB is actually looking into stuff like this: https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-discussing-on-field-wearable-technology-to-prevent-sign-stealing-185641614.html

I couldn't help myself... It was such a Spanky way to reply, had to make the joke!

Would have been funny if you phrased it as 'Buck the trend!'