Lester Has Second Biggest K Zone in Baseball

[Sammys Boombox]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-best-and-the-worst-of-the-pitcher-strike-zones-with-dallas-keuchel/

 

Maybe Ross as a personal catcher is worth it?

 

I also don’t think it’s a shock to see Lester right behind Keuchel. Lester has worked almost exclusively with David Ross. Last year, the Lester/Ross pairing was perhaps baseball’s most successful in terms of expanding the strike zone off the edges. Ross can’t have that much time left, but for now, he just gets Lester

[abuck1220]

which is odd, because he leads the leagues in bitching about balls and strikes.

[jersey cubs fan]

which is odd, because he leads the leagues in bitching about balls and strikes.

He's making his bitching count.

[Guest]

which is odd, because he leads the leagues in bitching about balls and strikes.

He's making his bitching count.

Exactly. I'd wager that has as much to do with it as Ross's magic mitt.

[Sammys Boombox]

Guys, he's just mad at himself.

[Guest]

i feel some jay cutler demeanor meatballery happening with lester

[SouthSideRyan]

And the game threads are just mad at themselves when they bitch about it.

[Andy]

And the game threads are just mad at themselves when they bitch about it.

Yeah, that's probably the difference between this and Cutler (though I'm not a Bears fan, so who knows). There seems to be a subset of Bears fans that gleefully mock Cutler, while we all want to love Lester.

[TheDude]

The previous article linked in that article is about Dexter Fowler getting jobbed on the Strike Zone. 19 called Strike Outs on balls outside the zone is crazy high, that's 23% of his total Strike Outs.

 

This year's zone on the eye-ball test has been maybe the worst I can ever recall in 33 years of watching games. The at bat weeks back where Soler was called out on strikes without swinging the bat once and without a single pitch being in the zone was the single worst umpiring at home I have ever seen.

[Guest]

And the game threads are just mad at themselves when they bitch about it.

Yeah, that's probably the difference between this and Cutler (though I'm not a Bears fan, so who knows). There seems to be a subset of Bears fans that gleefully mock Cutler, while we all want to love Lester.

 

i don't get the distinction

 

i want to (and do) love Jay

 

are you saying the difference lies in that we all want to love lester and only some bears fans want to love jay?

[Sammys Boombox]

The previous article linked in that article is about Dexter Fowler getting jobbed on the Strike Zone. 19 called Strike Outs on balls outside the zone is crazy high, that's 23% of his total Strike Outs.

 

This year's zone on the eye-ball test has been maybe the worst I can ever recall in 33 years of watching games. The at bat weeks back where Soler was called out on strikes without swinging the bat once and without a single pitch being in the zone was the single worst umpiring at home I have ever seen.

 

I do think this year is far worse than recent years, but the 1990s were horrible.

[Andy]

And the game threads are just mad at themselves when they bitch about it.

Yeah, that's probably the difference between this and Cutler (though I'm not a Bears fan, so who knows). There seems to be a subset of Bears fans that gleefully mock Cutler, while we all want to love Lester.

 

i don't get the distinction

 

i want to (and do) love Jay

 

are you saying the difference lies in that we all want to love lester and only some bears fans want to love jay?

I'm not a Bears fan, again, so I may be misreading things, but that is the general impression I get, yes.

 

It's pretty much meaningless, though.