BigSlick

I can deal with how boring an unexciting Zobrist is if he keeps OBPing .380

Nice. Nice.

Zobrist is definitely the one that has the highest probability of walking in a run and jeez he just missed screwing up that opportunity. Walk in the run!!

Does this mean we're gonna get a doubleheader at some point? I love doubleheaders (as bad as they may be for managers and potentially for the health of the team, as evidence suggests)

I know, I'll get a Kyle Hendricks shirsey (if they even sell them)

I was very close to buying a Schwarber shirsey, I still want to get one for one of the new kids. Bryant is too *clean* he's the obvious one that everyone loves, I want someone that's a little bit off the beaten path. Schwarber being a big football player that awkwardly fits into a baseball jersey and mashes dingers was perfect. Maybe I'll go for Soler and lend him some good feels mojo.

Javier Baez is incredibly likable He's got all the weirdness and childishness (in a good way) of Starlin Castro, so he fills that gap this team needs

This is a really great read and it seems very believable to me, without any stats to back me up, that Dex playing too shallow has hurt his defensive value. He's athletic and seems (again all anecdotal) to get good jumps on balls. I'll definitely trade a handful more singles over giving up doubles and triples over his head. Yeah, I'll trade the singles all day in order to take away some extra-base hits over his head. It seems really counterproductive to play that shallow in order to stop some balls from falling in front of you. It also seems like playing shallow would shrink his range down artificially, because balls hit deep or going to tend to hang in the air longer. So the extra balls he could get to by playing shallow aren't going to hang in the air as long. Which means, he has less time to cover ground. And that means his probable catch zone radius is going to be smaller. I wonder if we have any data to back this notion up. Statcast is going to be a great tool to help with defensive positioning. You can plot how often a ball is hit to every spot on the field and how long the ball hangs in the air, and then come up with the optimal spot to stick a guy, based on a catch probability zone. It's also much, much easier to get to balls in front of you than balls over your head, playing dudes shallow seems to make little sense to me, but I await more learned gentlemen with more evidence to show how wrong I am.

This is a really great read and it seems very believable to me, without any stats to back me up, that Dex playing too shallow has hurt his defensive value. He's athletic and seems (again all anecdotal) to get good jumps on balls. I'll definitely trade a handful more singles over giving up doubles and triples over his head.

We also would have had like 4 more runs from a Dex and a Rizzo homer each Good game to grit out, even against a garbage team

That gave me just a little bit of a scare there hahaha

sit down, scrub

Christ almighty can someone be on point when they get up

One of our first butt clenchers, I guess its good to get used to this as they're not all gonna be laughers (no matter how much I enjoy those)

Baez really can't lay off that low stuff can he

the Run Differential God demands tribute

Well done Wood

This ump is doing nobody any favors

Great.

Watching Strop gives me serious Marmol flashbacks

More BABIP love for Rizzo now, nice to feel that even out

Wow I think Javy *is* safe despite the throw beating him by a mile

Adam Warren makes me not miss Castro at all tbh

I. Love. Addison. Russell.

C'mon Soler, let me admire your big, beautiful, uh. Uh. Single up the middle or something