Random Baseball Musings

[bhogg]

My son has started pitching in youth ball. We picked up a lot of good tips off a website that highlights the mechanics of Greg Maddux and Nolan Ryan. Both kept their elbows below their shoulders after seperation.

 

That's one thing I teach my youth pitchers as well. It just seems to create less stress and unnecessary arm movement.

 

http://Www.chrisoleary.com

[Pushfrog98]

My son has started pitching in youth ball. We picked up a lot of good tips off a website that highlights the mechanics of Greg Maddux and Nolan Ryan. Both kept their elbows below their shoulders after seperation.

 

That's one thing I teach my youth pitchers as well. It just seems to create less stress and unnecessary arm movement.

 

http://Www.chrisoleary.com

How is little Hogg old enough to be pitching!?

[BCVM22]

http://atmlb.com/12ZaeSY

 

Lasorda :-))

[Elwood]

This article has probably already been posted. It's a little over a year old. I stumbled upon it while trying to find some info on this "inverted w" I keep hearing about.

 

Anyway, I thought it was an interesting piece on pitching mechanics.

 

Science, not the scalpel, is the real solution for Tommy John injuries. Too bad few MLB teams are paying attention.

[bhogg]

My son has started pitching in youth ball. We picked up a lot of good tips off a website that highlights the mechanics of Greg Maddux and Nolan Ryan. Both kept their elbows below their shoulders after seperation.

 

That's one thing I teach my youth pitchers as well. It just seems to create less stress and unnecessary arm movement.

 

http://Www.chrisoleary.com

How is little Hogg old enough to be pitching!?

 

 

He's almost 10. Time flies!

[imb]

My son has started pitching in youth ball. We picked up a lot of good tips off a website that highlights the mechanics of Greg Maddux and Nolan Ryan. Both kept their elbows below their shoulders after seperation.

 

That's one thing I teach my youth pitchers as well. It just seems to create less stress and unnecessary arm movement.

 

http://Www.chrisoleary.com

How is little Hogg old enough to be pitching!?

 

 

He's almost 10. Time flies!

 

holy [expletive]

[Banedon]

Apparently the Nationals trainers tried, and failed, to save a cameraman that was having a heart attack.

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/nationals-trainers-help-save-cameraman-life-following-heart-000514143.html

[Guest]

http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2013/5/3/4294202/the-sabermetrics-of-little-league

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Looks like Mickey Mantle corked his bat: http://deadspin.com/looks-like-mickey-mantle-used-to-cork-his-bat-489467933

[Banedon]

Put Sammy in the HoF!

[Cubswin11]

Looks like Mickey Mantle corked his bat: http://deadspin.com/looks-like-mickey-mantle-used-to-cork-his-bat-489467933

But, but nobody cheated until the 90's in baseball! Those guys in the hall are gods amongst the mere mortals now days that have to cheat to get by and are half the man players were 25+ years ago.

[Cubswin11]

Halladay to have shoulder examined. Last two starts combined: 6IP 17ER 7K 13H 4HR

[Guest]

http://imageshack.us/a/img198/3000/766870730.jpg

[Clem Fandango]

LaHair is currently hitting .298/.360/.579/.939 with 8 homers and 25 RBI in 30 games over there, too. Good to see he's doing well.

[bukie]

Coming into today, White Sox OF Dewayne Wise had a career OBP of .264, which is the lowest career OBP in history for any OF with at least 1,000 career plate appearances.

 

Today, though, he's 1-2 with a single (the only hit off Shields), so he may have bumped himself ahead of the next worst OBP of all time, Kenny Williams (.269).

[jersey cubs fan]

MLB ‏@MLB 3m

ANNOUNCEMENT: Against our better discretion, @RobDelaney will take over the @MLB Twitter account tomorrow from 12-7 PM ET.

Retweeted by rob delaney

 

That seems like an interesting couple. He sang the anthem at a Dodgers game, and for those that don't know, he's one of the dirtiest most hilarious people on twitter.

[Cubswin11]

I just pulled up the Indians box score tonight and saw Carlos Santana is batting 6th (thought that was weird since his slash line is .379/.471/.690) so I went to BBR to see where he's been hitting in the order this year. He has 64 PA in the 6th spot and only a handful of ab's in the 3-4-5 (under 20 PA in every spot). While they have Kipnis (.698 OPS) and Cabrera (.710 OPS) hitting 2/3

[Clem Fandango]

If it ain't broke don't fix it!

[Cubswin11]

Josh Donaldson was a 1.3 fWAR already

[imb]

LOVE reading these old scouting reports

 

http://scouts.baseballhall.org/media/reports/01708.jpg

[Guest]

Fernando Rodney has already given up more earned runs this year (6) than last year (5) despite having pitched 64 fewer innings.

[jersey cubs fan]

LOVE reading these old scouting reports

 

Saw this on my iphone and first thought it was Edwin Jackson's report. Did not compute.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Got this from Ben Badler on twitter. Cubs scout's (still with the organization) report on Mo Vaughn. Nails it.

 

http://i.imgur.com/yTSvRHA.jpg?1

[treebird]

Got this from Ben Badler on twitter. Cubs scout's (still with the organization) report on Mo Vaughn. Nails it.

 

http://i.imgur.com/yTSvRHA.jpg?1

 

"CANNOT JUMP IN AIR FOR BALL"

[Cubswin11]

Astros DFA'd Fernando Martinez today. What went wrong with him, wasn't he a huge prospect for the Mets a couple years ago?