They both could be potatoes soon and you'll have kicked yourself for nothing ;).
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They both could be potatoes soon and you'll have kicked yourself for nothing ;).
Yonder is here to stay. Eno Sarris pegged his ass back in Spring Training and he was absolutely right. : http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/yonde...nged-his-mind/Quote:
Originally Posted by Hulky
He's on pace for 66. But realistically I can see a .270 / 16 rest of the way, which I'm cool with.
Love Eno lol
Eno is the man, everytime he's on the Sleeper and the bust podcast I immediately tune in
I haven't listened to fangraphs audio in so long lol
Eno is the sole reason I went 12-0 last year in that league. I helped out Mistretta with his team on the waiver wire cause he got stuck at work (because I felt bad and left early forcing him to stay and miss the draft) but I passed up on Rick Porcello and Kyle Hendricks and keyed him in on them. Just imagine that for a second, I would of had like...7 out of the top 10 Cy Youngs on that team lol.
2016 : Carrasco, Quintana, Kershaw, Duffy, Skaggs, Porcello, Hendricks. mmmmmmhm
We should find some people and do an Ottoneu league lol.
It's hard to disagree with anything eno ever says about pitching. Those tasty pitcher rankings lol. I was pretty in on Hendricks last year too, but porcello I would probably not have jumped on unless he fell to me. Stroman and Estrada were guys i was high on this year along with urias. I'm extremely high on urias but I think I'm a year early based on the early takeaways (2 starts lol)
Dodgers do a better way than the Reds when it comes to service time and call-ups.
Like, take Amir Garret for example, he had one bad start, does exceptional, then gets "sent down to limit his innings" if you wanted to limit his innings, they wouldn't of left him in there to get shellac'd. It's them saying "Service time for an extra season" type crap. The Dodgers on the other hand use them for organizational depth even the highest prospects. And they call them up later on in the season to get those "limit innings" it's a shame that it takes young kids 4 years to ever truly become a pitcher, unless you're a once in a generation arm like Kershaw.
Urias will be quite serviceable this year, didn't he take a no hitter into the 5th last start? Urias is an all over right now when it comes to his advanced metrics, low babip, high strand rate, but a 1:1 k/bb ratio. However, what contact he does give is either GB (37%) or FB (32%), he's yet to give up a homer, I don't get Dodger games, but just looking at that, having a young guy like that who can pound both high and low quadrants effectively like that at such a young age, 1/5th of his K's are looking and the rest are swing and miss, so the stuff is obviously there as is the deception in the looking department, I'm more concerned on why he's not throwing that curveball anymore. Hopefully he's not shying away from the Rich Hill disease.
Matt Moore had an interesting comment when it came to the blister thing, that the meaty part of their fingers press on the seams, pitchers who throw a fuckton of curveballs tend to develop them at a younger age, but Rich redefining himself by almost exclusively throwing them at this point keeps putting him on the shelf. Matt Moore mentioned he's pitched through it until it turned into a callus. I wonder if Rich said something to Urias which is causing him to shy away from it at times. He's only throwing it 6% of the time this season, compared to 16% the year before. That's a pretty deep drop in %
I don't get how having a blister would even stop you from pitching. I used pitch at a pretty high level (in Canada) and I've gotten plenty of blisters that didnt prevent me from pitching. I'd love to see what hill is dealing with.
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/you-c...his-curveball/Quote:
Originally Posted by Spencer 555
Eno to the rescue brotha lol
Lol ya I dunno. Just play through the pain.
lolwut?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spencer 555
https://sports.vice.com/en_us/articl...-little-injuryQuote:
Pitching is an act of extreme and violent athleticism. But it is also one of extraordinary finesse, especially at the point where the baseball departs from the hand. In order to pitch effectively, you need to be able to release the ball off your fingertips in a specific place, and with a specific amount of pressure, over and over again. When you have a blister, you can't.
"Have you ever had a blister on your foot, and you don't have a Band-Aid, and you're walking, and suddenly inadvertently you're limping because of it?" said Leiter. "You just can't help it. It's impossible to throw a ball if you have a blister. It hurts, it's sore, it's coming off your finger, it starts to bleed."
I love it when ordinary people wonder why super star athletes do what they do.
4 of the Mariners 5 starting pitchers are on the DL already. We've got a minor leaguer taking the mound every night
A combination of playing bad teams and suddenly scoring 10 runs a night has allowed them to crawl back to .500, which has been fun to watch, but it sucks that the offense is finally clicking and we have some excitement young talent and no fucking rotation.
Like I said, I'd love to see the blister lol. I used to pitch guys (still do in a men's fastball league every summer) and I've had a blister exactly where they're talking about many times. I used to throw the ball in the low 80s though and I didn't have a curve worth throwing. Still, its hard for me to understand the massive difference between me pitching with a blister at 80mph and an mlb pitcher when I know how easy it was to pitch through the pain (for me). If it's the same kind of blister as the shitty ones I've had on the foot sure, but I haven't seen rich hills finger and I've literally had that injury and pitched at a pretty high level.
I think the MLB is a tad higher of a level than your summer league pitching dude.
Just a tad
I dunno man
you ever played in a Canadian summer rec league? pretty intense
Canadian *men's summer rec league
sorry, spencer
crucial detail
Curves are different, you're essentially grinding it across the seams when you throw it. I had a Fb/Splitter/Sinker combo in HS, I was a catcher Freshman year and we lost a lot of guys to injury and asked if I could pitch (used to in little league) so I just kinda went with it and he asked if I wanted to do it regularly the following year cause he liked what he saw (One love, Coach Sicco), but after about a month I started incorporating a screwball because I needed something down or arm side run more than the splitter, I took the Mike Norris approach (it's held with a circle change up grip, and you release it similar to how you turn a doorknob. Hold your hand with the OK hand gesture, and then turn it at a 45 degree angle, that's how I released it) and it absolutely MURDERED the top inside joint of my middle finger.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spencer 555
I can see where Hill is coming from, but I honestly just think he has baby hands at this point. If he's thrown 690 in 2 years and still doesn't have a callus, then his skin is either super soft and made of vagina, or he keeps changing the pressure point on his finger.
I know im in a different universe guys.
its called Canadia
Obviously Spencer is a lot tougher and better at dealing with adversity and playing through pain/injury than professional baseball players who have reached the absolute pinnacle of their sport.
Like, duh.
#here2help
That could very easily be true hugh. I've played through a lot injuries in my life. I understand I'm not playing anywhere near the same level of competition, but rich hill could just be a giant pussy with vagina hands. At least gryph understands where I'm coming from lol.
No, Spencer. It absolutely could not be true. That's why it was a joke.
#here2help
Bartolo colon would pitch through that injury.
16 innings vs the Reds and I'm still watching this shitfest. Smfh why?
A's tickets are now ~$1.33 a game
http://www.sfchronicle.com/athletics...a-11143346.php
Giants with a 3 game winning streak, thank god. With a series against the Dodgers on tap, I hope they can let this momentum propel them out of the stairway closet.
Likely. But that division is really tough now imo. The snacks and Rockies are no joke.
Cool article about Miguel Sano. Probably my favourite young player in the league right now. I've absolutely loved his plate approach since he came up and he's the only player I've ever watched strikeout over 30% of the time and look fantastic doing it. Chris Davis is similar, but Sano is going to be hitting 50 bombs a year on the regular in his prime and not have as many batting average concerns because of the quality of his contact. Wish I was as high on him in fantasy this year as I was last year, I didn't expect him to "breakout" so soon. Imagine if this guy figures out how to strikeout somewhere in the 25-30% range...
How do u strikeout 36% of the time and not look like u have any holes in your swing lol
Freddie Freeman is a top 3 hitter in baseball and it's not even really debatable. Other two being trout and harper
I can only assume anyone who has pure ++offspeed stuff and gets him in a 2 strike count K's him because he turns into a guess hitter and sits on something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spencer 555
I'd put Goldie and Betts in that mix too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanosuke
Is Miguel Cabrera out of the conversation already? I know he's off to slow start, for like the first time ever, but still.
The Astros are REALLY good.
Ya I'd say so. He's not quite washed up, but hes not in that upper echelon imo.
[QUOTE=Hugh;41004]The Astros are REALLY
Scary thing is they have a really good and deep farm system still.
Maybe. Last season Miggy was .316/.393/.563. He had a .956 OPS? 38 bombs and 108 RBI. Those numbers are almost exactly his career average across the board.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spencer 555
I mean you could be right. This might be the year he lost it. Happens to everyone eventually. But there's been no gradual slide for Cabrera. Last season he was definitely one of the best hitters in baseball. I'm not ready to say he still isn't just yet.