The Ball is Insanely Juiced

[sneakypower]

just a few 650 PA paces to state my case, a non-comprehensive list

 

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i left out a lot of the less shocking ones like Gallo, Springer pacing for 50..

[Sammy Sofa]

The cool thing about Dietrich is that he's a double threat: the Cubs' FO whiffed both in terms of yet another Marlin kicking ass in the NL Central, AND they decided to sign Descalso instead of him.

[soccer10k]

All of the AAA stats are also a compelling case.

[HawkeTrackler]

Excuse my ignorance, buy why can't someone who is way smarter than me just look at / maybe cut open one of the old balls and one of the new balls and tell us if there's juice in the new ones?

[jersey cubs fan]

Excuse my ignorance, buy why can't someone who is way smarter than me just look at / maybe cut open one of the old balls and one of the new balls and tell us if there's juice in the new ones?

but then the juice will spill out and make a mess

[Banedon]

Excuse my ignorance, buy why can't someone who is way smarter than me just look at / maybe cut open one of the old balls and one of the new balls and tell us if there's juice in the new ones?

but then the juice will spill out and make a mess

 

The flubber would float away.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Torres doesn't play the Orioles enough to keep that pace

[OleMissCub]

Dietrich himself is likely juicing. He already has more HR this year than he had in 4 times as many AB’s last year.

[Banedon]

Dietrich himself is likely juicing. He already has more HR this year than he had in 4 times as many AB’s last year.

 

[UMFan83]

Dietrich himself is likely juicing. He already has more HR this year than he had in 4 times as many AB’s last year.

 

well probably just insane FB/HR luck. He has more HRs than singles, doubles and triples combined

[fromthestretch]

Dietrich himself is likely juicing. He already has more HR this year than he had in 4 times as many AB’s last year.

 

well probably just insane FB/HR luck. He has more HRs than singles, doubles and triples combined

 

The fact that he's playing in a much more homerun-friendly ballpark doesn't hurt either.

[Janelle-Alexis]

Excuse my ignorance, buy why can't someone who is way smarter than me just look at / maybe cut open one of the old balls and one of the new balls and tell us if there's juice in the new ones?

 

Spin the ball on a countertop. A juiced ball will have a much lower spin rate.

[Sammy Sofa]

Excuse my ignorance, buy why can't someone who is way smarter than me just look at / maybe cut open one of the old balls and one of the new balls and tell us if there's juice in the new ones?

but then the juice will spill out and make a mess

 

[sneakypower]

Dietrich himself is likely juicing. He already has more HR this year than he had in 4 times as many AB’s last year.

i mean, Sealboy had 10 HR in almost 1000 career PA coming into the year and now he's already reached a dozen for the season, we're not even to June yet

[entbird79]

Dietrich himself is likely juicing. He already has more HR this year than he had in 4 times as many AB’s last year.

 

Have you looked at Willson's stats?

[Clem Fandango]

Someone not on the list but should be worth mentioning:

 

Jorge Soler hit his 17th home run today. Entering the game he still had a sub .800 OPS, a 104 OPS+ and an OBP below .300. So he's not exactly a wizard at the plate.

 

But he's crushing dongs like we always thought he would.

[Regular Show]

Someone not on the list but should be worth mentioning:

 

Jorge Soler hit his 17th home run today. Entering the game he still had a sub .800 OPS, a 104 OPS+ and an OBP below .300. So he's not exactly a wizard at the plate.

 

But he's crushing dongs like we always thought he would.

 

I think he's going to have a breakout season one of these years where he posts a good OBP along with a good SLG% and lots of HRs (40+). Problem is he'll always suck on defense and he looks brutal in the OF at times bringing his value down.

 

I wish we had sold on him sooner (like right after the 2015 season maybe?) and I bet Dodgers' fans feel the same way about Puig.

[PackLandVA]

How's about puttin' one of these in the umps' locker room??

 

 

[JennieGarthAlgar]

Im sure the umpires would appreciate that very much. Nice gesture.

[CubinNY]

If anyone was skeptical I present to you the 6.13.19 game Cubs @ Dodgers.

[gobigred]

Dodgers are the biggest beneficiaries of this too.. That park at night especially is so difficult to homer in and look at their inflated numbers

[BigSlick]

Looks like Manfred is now acknowledging that the ball is juiced [tweet]

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[Sammy Sofa]

Looks like Manfred is now acknowledging that the ball is juiced [tweet]

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Oh, good; the horsefeathering killjoy narc with this reply is a Cubs fan:

 

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[sneakypower]

https://theathletic.com/1037205/2019/06/20/stark-home-run-madness-it-cant-just-be-the-baseballs-or-can-it/

 

THE THOUSAND HOME RUN PYRAMID – So if you made it through the previous paragraph, you won’t be surprised to learn that at this clip, we’d see 6,591 home runs hit this year, which would be … the most in history! And about 1,000 more than last year (5,585)! And nearly 2,400 more than were hit a mere five years ago (4.186)! Even at the height of the PED era, the most bombs launched in any season was “only” 5,695 (in 2000). We could see that total eclipsed by 900 homers this year.

[CyHawk_Cub]

Jason Heyward has 10 HR already. I didn't think he'd hit that many for the whole season.