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I completely agree with you. That is a productive inning.
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True. I dont know why I included pitch count with first pitch strike. As a pitcher, I go into every game with a strategy. This could be said for all pitchers. 1. First pitch strike- how many can I throw and what will be the total affect on the outcome of my game. 2. More change-ups- I will throw the first 5 hitters at least one change-up per AB. Obviously dont throw a weak hitter a changeup. 3. Second time through the order, start your best hitters off with a change-up or off-speed pitch. 4. After I have thrown a change-up, I throw my best fastball(talk about messing with a hitters timing) 5. Throw a 2 seam fastball to get movement 6. Work in and out, up and down 7. When im ahead in the count 0-2, I usually throw a letter high fastball from the center of the plate in, or a curveball in the dirt.( I never throw a 0-2 for a strike) 8. Work the ladder- first pitch fastball low and away. Second pitch fastball belt high in, third pitch fastball letter high. Keep this in mind if your son is a pitcher. I gurantee you he will succeed. But, there are always set backs.
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Wood better be working on making his shoulder stronger this whole off-season. But, then again, you dont want to over work yourself.
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The most important count in baseball is 1-1. 2-1 offspeed pitches do nothing, if a pitcher changes his arm speed or the batter can't catch-up to his FB and the pitcher does the batter favor by speeding up his bat for him. The most important/best pitch in baseball is first pitch strike. If the batter is ahead of the count 2-1, then the hitter is looking fastball. I dont care how hard a pitcher throws. If you throw a changeup on a 2-1 count, then your batter will probably pull it foul. Then you have many options on the 2-2 count. Jam the hitter with a fastball, or a slow curveball outside of the zone could get the hitter to chase. The only situation I see to not throw a changeup on a 2-1 count is if the hitter has shown he cannot catch up to your fastball. Then obviously throwing a changeup 2-1 would make no sense. Because it would speed up the hitters bat.
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lol, sorry I forgot about your question. In that situation I would rather have Johnson get on-base. But, if you're going to make an out, then make it productive. I rather have one of my batter's make a productive out, rather than not doing anything productive.
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Yeah the quality of the opposing pitches dictates how well a batter can do. If you put every pitch into the same quality catagory, you'd be in a fantasy world. It doesn't work that way. Sure, he didn't get the job done, but that doesn't erase how, why, or what took place to get that result. Similar to telling me that a hitter went 2-4, that doesn't tell me enough as how good did he do. The <1.000 OPS is good statistically but did he hit 2 line drives or 2 seeing eye singles or something in-between? which is why statistics are only meaningful in a large sample size. nevertheless, that at bat is not a successful one regardless of who he was facing. great hitters get hits off great pitchers. weaker hitters don't. this is all reflected statistically. And that is why I said stats dont tell you everything.
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Yeah the quality of the opposing pitches dictates how well a batter can do. If you put every pitch into the same quality catagory, you'd be in a fantasy world. It doesn't work that way. Sure, he didn't get the job done, but that doesn't erase how, why, or what took place to get that result. Similar to telling me that a hitter went 2-4, that doesn't tell me enough as how good did he do. The <1.000 OPS is good statistically but did he hit 2 line drives or 2 seeing eye singles or something in-between? If the count was 2-1, 3-1 or sometimes 1-1, then the hitter should be looking for a fastball. If the pitcher gets ahead of the hitter, then the pitcher can make the hitter chase his pitch. Nothing better than a 2-1 off-speed pitch. :)
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Without having watched the game, it's once again all situational. Did Mark Ellis get to 2B, b/c he was robbed of a hit and the IF'er in a rush to get the close threw the ball into the dugout? Did Johnson fall behind in the count 0-2 and did the best he could with a tough pitch? How well did the pitchers throw against them? It's incomplete to me. It wasn't productive based on the game situation rather than non-situational outcome. I think its safe to say the count wasn't 0-2 when he walked up to the plate. therefore, its safe to say he failed. how well did the pitchers throw against them? what is this kindergarten? now we are giving players credit for doing "the best they could" against tough pitches? That's ridiculous. he failed. He did not fail. He brought the runner home, and to me that means he got the job done. A failed situation would be him not doing anything productive in that situation.
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:roll:
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I'm pretty sure you're missing the point completely. No im not missing the point. He said he thought Kendall's Ab was the only good one in the inning. Which is completely false. Not everyting has to be about stats. Stats aren't useless, but stats are so subjective that one must really pay extreme attention to other details of the game that stats don't record. :shock: I stand corrected raisin. What is that supposed to mean?
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I'm pretty sure you're missing the point completely. No im not missing the point. He said he thought Kendall's Ab was the only good one in the inning. Which is completely false. Not everyting has to be about stats. Stats aren't useless, but stats are so subjective that one must really pay extreme attention to other details of the game that stats don't record.
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How can you not give credit to Dan Johnson for bringing that run home?? I dont understand why you dont give credit to a guy who did his job. :? you're not serious are you? the A's were down two in the bottom of the ninth . . . pretty self explanatory, isn't it? Yeah it's pretty self explanatory. Not giving credit to a guy who did his job is crazy. If you're going to make a out, make it productive. That is exactly what Dan Johnson did. I would rather have Dan Johnson bringing home that run on a sac fly, rather than not bringing home that run at all.
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How can you not give credit to Dan Johnson for bringing that run home?? I dont understand why you dont give credit to a guy who did his job. :?
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Johan Santana, Jake Peavy or Carlos Zambrano. Someone who has the ability to dominate hitter's will have the best chance.
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I know when one of my teammates moves a runner over he did his job. And when he walks into the dugout he gets high fives left and right from everyone. I agree with most of things you say jaxxradio. Some people on this forum get so caught up with the numbers. Numbers dont tell you everything. Its the little things that win baseball games.
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Milton Bradley
baseball7897 replied to RockTheIvy's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I would rather keep Jones. -
He reminds of Jamey Carroll . A good utility player.
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Some ideas on the Cubs as they stand
baseball7897 replied to LuvChicagoSports's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I dont like the bullpen. Counting on guys like Novoa or Aardsma is foolish. -
Yeah, because I had two things I wanted to say. I didnt know it was against the law to do something like that. There's no law against it. There are also no laws against hitting the enter key and just making a new paragraph for a new point. I dont really know why someone would carry this on. :roll:
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Yeah, because I had two things I wanted to say. I didnt know it was against the law to do something like that.
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The hips deliver the baseball. You may think the arm is the reason for a pitcher being able to deliver a 90mph fastball, but really it is the trunk area of the body that supplies the power. That is why pitchers are always working on their core muscles. It all starts with a stable foundation. If you're imbalanced in the core area, your chances of injury are really high. Arm speed is more important than arm strength. The more arm speed a pitcher can generate the faster his fastball will be.
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The Cubs target the hard throwing Dominican pitchers with improper mechanics.
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This is my biggest beef with Dusty...I've never felt a team he's headed has been fundamentally sound, and there's no excuse for that at this level. Is Sullivan ripping on a guy who is trying to make a diving catch?
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Pitchers use their hips more than anyother part of the body to deliver a baseball. I could see this coming. A pitcher has hip problems, and a couple of years later he is having shoulder surgery.
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What happened to that CubsBullsBears guy?