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  1. BigSlick
    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)
  2. BigSlick
    I know, I'll get a Kyle Hendricks shirsey (if they even sell them)
  3. BigSlick
    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.
  4. BigSlick
    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
  5. BigSlick
    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.
  6. BigSlick
    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.
  7. BigSlick
    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
  8. BigSlick
    That gave me just a little bit of a scare there hahaha
  9. BigSlick
    sit down, scrub
  10. BigSlick
    Christ almighty can someone be on point when they get up
  11. BigSlick
    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)
  12. BigSlick
    Baez really can't lay off that low stuff can he
  13. BigSlick
    the Run Differential God demands tribute
  14. BigSlick
    Well done Wood
  15. BigSlick
    This ump is doing nobody any favors
  16. BigSlick
    Great.
  17. BigSlick
    Watching Strop gives me serious Marmol flashbacks
  18. BigSlick
    More BABIP love for Rizzo now, nice to feel that even out
  19. BigSlick
    Wow I think Javy *is* safe despite the throw beating him by a mile
  20. BigSlick
    Adam Warren makes me not miss Castro at all tbh
  21. BigSlick
    I. Love. Addison. Russell.
  22. BigSlick
    C'mon Soler, let me admire your big, beautiful, uh. Uh. Single up the middle or something
  23. BigSlick
    This ump really loves his tight zone
  24. BigSlick
    Warren looking nasty
  25. BigSlick
    Heywards poise is so strong he took ball two down the middle
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