General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[sneakypower]

*errors

[NonProfitCow]

Kimbrel to the Dodgers for A.J. Pollock.

[Regular Show]

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Too soon

[minnesotacubsfan]

*errors

*fuckdefensechicksdigthelongball

[Regular Show]

 

Damn, what a catch by Billy Hamilton

[Banedon]

I love Tiktok weirdness haha

 

[Bertz]

 

Yankees-specific, but a good article on the latest trend from pitch labs: the sweeping slider.

[We Got The Whole 9]

 

Yankees-specific, but a good article on the latest trend from pitch labs: the sweeping slider.

I read about this last week from the Rangers camp and what immediately came to mind from that term was Carlos Marmol. Apparently Jon Gray and Dane Dunning are names to watch that have taken to it immediately.

[Bertz]

 

Yankees-specific, but a good article on the latest trend from pitch labs: the sweeping slider.

I read about this last week from the Rangers camp and what immediately came to mind from that term was Carlos Marmol. Apparently Jon Gray and Dane Dunning are names to watch that have taken to it immediately.

 

Oh man I'd love to get vintage Marmol in Statcast to see what he was working with.

 

One of the things I find interesting from a Cubs perspective is that they were fairly early adopters on the seam shifted wake front, and never really abandoned two-seamers/sinkers like a lot of the league, but they didn't really go for the sweeping sliders. With the notable exceptions of Adbert and Chafin, it's been largely two-seamer/cutter/curveball. Is that a missed opportunity (i.e. they figured out the first half of the puzzle but whiffed on the second) or is there some underlying reason they didn't jump on the sweeping slider train more aggressively?

[CubinNY]

 

Yankees-specific, but a good article on the latest trend from pitch labs: the sweeping slider.

I read about this last week from the Rangers camp and what immediately came to mind from that term was Carlos Marmol. Apparently Jon Gray and Dane Dunning are names to watch that have taken to it immediately.

 

Oh man I'd love to get vintage Marmol in Statcast to see what he was working with.

 

One of the things I find interesting from a Cubs perspective is that they were fairly early adopters on the seam shifted wake front, and never really abandoned two-seamers/sinkers like a lot of the league, but they didn't really go for the sweeping sliders. With the notable exceptions of Adbert and Chafin, it's been largely two-seamer/cutter/curveball. Is that a missed opportunity (i.e. they figured out the first half of the puzzle but whiffed on the second) or is there some underlying reason they didn't jump on the sweeping slider train more aggressively?

Pitching seems to be so far ahead of hitting in terms of biomechanical analysis used to improve the player.

[Bertz]

I read about this last week from the Rangers camp and what immediately came to mind from that term was Carlos Marmol. Apparently Jon Gray and Dane Dunning are names to watch that have taken to it immediately.

 

Oh man I'd love to get vintage Marmol in Statcast to see what he was working with.

 

One of the things I find interesting from a Cubs perspective is that they were fairly early adopters on the seam shifted wake front, and never really abandoned two-seamers/sinkers like a lot of the league, but they didn't really go for the sweeping sliders. With the notable exceptions of Adbert and Chafin, it's been largely two-seamer/cutter/curveball. Is that a missed opportunity (i.e. they figured out the first half of the puzzle but whiffed on the second) or is there some underlying reason they didn't jump on the sweeping slider train more aggressively?

Pitching seems to be so far ahead of hitting in terms of biomechanical analysis used to improve the player.

 

Yeah it's kind of crazy. The Giants did some stuff last year, which I think basically amounted to taking BP with in-game caliber velocity, but otherwise it's been all pitching going back to the "fly ball revolution" in ~2015.

[Regular Show]

 

Very excited to see him play and I'm happy for Mariners fans. Just please don't struggle mightily like Jarred Kelenic (that fanbase has suffered enough).

 

Also, from the few clips I've seen and everything I've heard about him, he absolutely does seem like a great kid.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

FYI if you're a T-Mobile user, for the next 7 days you can redeem free MLB.tv through their T-Mobile Tuesdays app

[David]

[David]

FYI if you're a T-Mobile user, for the next 7 days you can redeem free MLB.tv through their T-Mobile Tuesdays app

 

Thanks for the heads up! Almost forgot about it. This is how I've gotten MLB.tv every year for the past few years.

[UMFan83]

FYI if you're a T-Mobile user, for the next 7 days you can redeem free MLB.tv through their T-Mobile Tuesdays app

 

Thank you again to T-Mobile for acquiring Sprint. Still have to deal with a shitty network but at least when it works I get MLB.tv

[Bertz]

I don't have a BP sub but sounds like this article gets at some of the ways the Giants used data to help their hitters last year

 

 

If the Cubs end up surprising, it's going to be because the eclectic group of hitters is able to be leveraged in a similar way

[Regular Show]

I don't have a BP sub but sounds like this article gets at some of the ways the Giants used data to help their hitters last year

 

 

If the Cubs end up surprising, it's going to be because the eclectic group of hitters is able to be leveraged in a similar way

 

I don't remember which podcast it was now, but Eric Longenhagen mentioned this and how some analysts with other teams were trying to "reverse engineer" the lineups the Giants were assembling to figure out what they were doing. It's interesting and I'm sure the Giants were doing some cool P/B matchup analysis, but I also think having strong years from their vets (Posey, Crawford, Belt and Longoria) and some random luck were a big part of their success last year.

[Bertz]

I don't have a BP sub but sounds like this article gets at some of the ways the Giants used data to help their hitters last year

 

 

If the Cubs end up surprising, it's going to be because the eclectic group of hitters is able to be leveraged in a similar way

 

I don't remember which podcast it was now, but Eric Longenhagen mentioned this and how some analysts with other teams were trying to "reverse engineer" the lineups the Giants were assembling to figure out what they were doing. It's interesting and I'm sure the Giants were doing some cool P/B matchup analysis, but I also think having strong years from their vets (Posey, Crawford, Belt and Longoria) and some random luck were a big part of their success last year.

 

The fun brain bendy part is wondering whether their surprisingly strong years were *because* of this. Or was it just that the shortened 2020 season gave their legs some rest like we all thought at the time?

[UMFan83]

Peacock gets in on the exclusive streaming games trend and will broadcast a weekly "Sunday Morning" game starting at 10:30 am CT. The Cubs are on the schedule once - on the road against the Phillies

 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Just the dumbest pile of rich people around

[Andy]

Peacock gets in on the exclusive streaming games trend and will broadcast a weekly "Sunday Morning" game starting at 10:30 am CT. The Cubs are on the schedule once - on the road against the Phillies

 

I can't emphasize enough that there is zero [expletive] percent chance I'm paying $5 to get a game I am already paying for MLBTV to get when MLBTV's whole thing is every out-of-market game.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Will they skip the between inning horsefeathers for the people with the no ad version of Peacock?

[We Got The Whole 9]

Hayes left the game in the first inning of his new 8 year deal with Pittsburgh