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Orioles
JudasIscariotTheBird replied to Tim's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
After checking Gausman's stats (including minors and what most sites have projected for this season as a starter) I wasn't so sure he'd be an improvement upon our starting 5, until I read something like this: should-kevin-gausman-and-james-paxton-throw-more-high-fastballs ...and then I start to wonder. Are the Orioles just really, really dumb? -
In case anyone missed it, Herrera made the squad along with Szczer. Sweeney was DFA'd.
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I'll have you know that I averaged over a sack a game during my short stint as a high school JV defensive tackle. I know my football almost as well Roy Knitski.
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OD Roster final stretch
JudasIscariotTheBird replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I thought Morgan was making a go of it in the Alaskan leagues. -
You don't dive at a pylon though, you only dive to avoid being tackled/stepping out of bounds, before your arm crosses over an imaginary line Yes, you do dive at a pylon, because touching the pylon is a touchdown, and that exact point is often the best route to take toward the endzone because of the angle the potential tacklers are taking to try and tackle you, since standing on the sideline would be a waste of space. What are you talking about? The line isn't imaginary, and neither is the pylon.
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The ability to adjust is a good point, but I'm saying that athletes are fully capable of jumping and touching something at a point. The difficulty level is being grossly over estimated here. You could also use the "diving at a pylon" example. As for injuries, each group was apprised to ignore that aspect of this matter, but yeah, no one here is advocating actually doing the dive on every close play. I myself think maybe this could be worthwhile in high leverage situations in a pennant race or in playoff games by your replacement level players (how devastating would it be if Couglan broke his wrist beating out a dp to drive in the winning run in the 9th of game 2 of the nlcs?)
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I'm getting sucked in here. They dive because that is where the baseball is going and that is the only way to catch it. If you dive at a stationary object it is impossible (or close to it) to run full speed before you leave your feet. After you leave your feet you are going slower (by definition) than when you are running. You'd have to time the dive to the last step from the base to wherever you could make it to the base in the air to not encounter friction from hitting the ground before you reach the base. So you are saying you can dive to a point that a moving object is heading toward, but a stationary object is too difficult to pathom? (Yes, you will slow down ever so slowly after you take your dive, but if you reach the bag without sliding with an outstretched arm, you get to arrive before your center of gravity does, and that would more than make up for air drag. I'm not even positive that "by definition" is right, as just taking steps has a frictional cost, too.)
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I think I was involved in this chat 7 years ago, and on the pro-dive side. The sprinter arguement doesn't really apply, as crossing the line is defined by the torso. Reaching your arm out doesn't count like just touching the bag does in baseball. I also don't see why this would be impossible to pull off with some practice. People run and dive at moving objects like baseballs all the time. How much harder (or easier) is it to dive at a stationary base?
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2015 Spring Training Game Thread
JudasIscariotTheBird replied to David's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
All of those HRs were amazing in their own way, but when Bryant seemingly takes a measured swing and DESTROYS the ball to the opposite field...that's Sosa-esque right there. =P~ -
And thanks to that link, I now can't be sure if Wellington Castillo is worse at catching than I thought he was, or just a bigot: http://www.outsports.com/2015/3/5/8159353/dale-scott-injured-cubs-giants
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2015 Spring Training Game Thread
JudasIscariotTheBird replied to David's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Just fired up the radio feed and this is approximately what I hear: "Shifts are something that has not been traditional over the years...all this stuff with sabermetrics and graphs and stuff, the giants are one of the teams that apply it the LEAST" Glad we are winning. -
Semi-topical
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I'm a Solar fan myself, but I think it is going to be more of a slow burn rather than bursting into industry. Higher oil prices will help.
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Arrieta finishes 2nd in the Cy Young award voting. Fowler leads the NL in runs scored.
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I went and checked out David's link, but I didn't see any mention of the effect of double switches. We can all agree that in most cases you want your worst hitter batting 9th (unless you really buy into the good-hitter cluster idea...but that all depends on the difference in quality of the hitters, I believe), and I could see how the effect of pinch hitting an actual hitter sooner would be a benefit, but having the pitcher in the 9th spot gives you the benefit of being able to have your starting pitcher go longer into games if you'd like (not having to pinch hit for him as soon). I would also think that some benefit of the pinch hitter batting sooner would be negated by how often double switches would happen. Your pitcher is going to be inserted into a near-random part of the line up, anyhow. ...although I suppose that is a similar effect as just pinch-hitting...whatever, I'm not going to bother thinking about it anymore since it all adds up to a lot of nothing.
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plzplzplzplzplz Unless that pitcher happens to be Travis Wood, why would this be a thing we would want to have happen? Because the pitcher usually only bats twice (three times if you're lucky and he and/or the offense is doing well), after which point you're probably going to have hitters available to use in the 8th spot that are better than whoever your worst hitter in the lineup that day is. I would guess that with how often double switches happen, and how it will force you to use a man more often, this would not be enough to make up for having the pitcher batting 8th (unless he hits better than Ross or something.)
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plzplzplzplzplz Unless that pitcher happens to be Travis Wood, why would this be a thing we would want to have happen?
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...despite his high OBP, especially for his position. This caused me to ask myself who the opposite of Dusty Baker would be? Yes, because his career BB% is still 5.2%. Meaning his OBP is almost entirely dependent on a high BABIP. Like I said, if he maintains his significant jump in career high LD% and HR/FB% from 2014 because he turned some corner in development, great. If it turns out he was just having a one off really good year hitting the baseball, he's going not going to help the team in OBP in 2015. If you are going to be concerned with one-off years, 2013, at age 23, is the example. (.290 BABIP, .284 OBP). The rest of his career has been amazingly consistent in both arenas. Any player can suddenly have a stinker of a BABIP in any given season, but Castro has established his in over 3000 PA to be .325 to go with a .325 OBP. He is good at getting on base. I also don't think it is unreasonable to observe or expect increases in LD% or HR/FB% as he starts to enter his late 20s. He also had a career high in walk rate last year...
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...despite his high OBP, especially for his position. This caused me to ask myself who the opposite of Dusty Baker would be? Yes, because his career BB% is still 5.2%. Meaning his OBP is almost entirely dependent on a high BABIP. Like I said, if he maintains his significant jump in career high LD% and HR/FB% from 2014 because he turned some corner in development, great. If it turns out he was just having a one off really good year hitting the baseball, he's going not going to help the team in OBP in 2015. If you are going to be concerned with one-off years, 2013, at age 23, is the example. (.290 BABIP, .284 OBP). The rest of his career has been amazingly consistent in both arenas. Any player can suddenly have a stinker of a BABIP in any given season, but Castro has established his in over 3000 PA to be .325 to go with a .325 OBP. He is good at getting on base.
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...despite his high OBP, especially for his position. This caused me to ask myself who the opposite of Dusty Baker would be?
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Him working out at 3B would be the ideal, but my biggest concern is long term health. Seems like a tall guy diving around at 3B would invite back problems.
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https://twitter.com/jkmumford/status/557214670520852480/photo/1
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says there right in the link that phil rogers is involved, so that would explain why it has not been posted or talked about anywhere. I don't normally read a lot of sports writers or bother to memorize their names...so he never has any idea what he's talking about? The Luis Valbuena era...I'm still upset about it.
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I haven't seen this article posted or talked about anywhere. The title was preposterous enough for me to click on it, so I had a heads up that some non-sense was coming, but it still prompted me to shout, out loud "what the f---?!" Merry Christmas, everyone (especially Luis Valbuena). http://m.cubs.mlb.com/news/article/104808518/phil-rogers-cubs-shouldnt-wait-to-promote-kris-bryant-to-majors
