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  1. Jason Ross
    Right shoulder discomfort. Not great.
  2. Jason Ross
    Looked at the statcast on Soroka and then the video of him coming off. He looked to be favoring his right side a little and explaining something to do with his ability to throw the slurve (the way he was gesturing would be a curveball/slurve rotation). Then in the Statcast, he didn't throw another slurve after he hung that pitch bad to Stephenson. Also, fastball was down 2 mph on those pitches and he was suddenly leaving everything up to the arm side. Probably not a nail.
  3. Jason Ross
    Stroman looks like he's done. He's been among the worst pitchers in all of baseball.
  4. Jason Ross
    There's a chance, but it would be a decent coincidence. He had changed his arm slot and the way he was throwing was creating more shape. He was using his fastball, specifically, very different before and after the velocity drop. Those are a lot of very specific changes to occur. It's almost assuredly that he changed something to help him maximize his pitches. He had a nail issue a few weeks ago. There is a real chance that Lodolo and Soroka got knocked out for similar reasons.
  5. Jason Ross
    I doubt he's getting pulled before like the 6th or the 7th inning. So however many PA's that will be.
  6. Jason Ross
    Sharma says he had a nail issue a few weeks ago. Let's hope it's that popping up.
  7. Jason Ross
    Alright, we can save this. We just need a time machine. And to send current Jed back to the past. Then we can trade for another SP.
  8. Jason Ross
    Well, apparently Michael is banged up.
  9. Jason Ross
    Nevermind. Looks injury related.
  10. Jason Ross
    Probably not. They'll probably let him play a few innings before torching the bench immediately.
  11. Jason Ross
    Ben Brown is warming up. Looks like the Cubs are planning on using him more as an "opener" and a piggyback with Brown.
  12. Jason Ross
    Would be great to see the Cubs punish the Reds bullpen. Reds have the 25th best bullpen based on xFIP, and the 25th worst walk-rate. Go beat these guys up on Monday and their pen will be hurt the whole series. Bummer for Lodolo, I never enjoy seeing someone hurt. For his sake, a blister issue will not be a killer long term at least.
  13. Jason Ross
    CB Bucknor is the best advertisement for why the ABS challenge system is needed.
  14. Jason Ross
    Actually, it does! Don't focus on the velocity so much - I know we're conditioned to see 91 and think "uh oh!" but since his velocity dropped, he's gotten much better results on the fastball. Throwing 94-95 is cool to us, but his shape suffers at that velocity. By dropping the velo, allows for the earth to react to the baseball a bit more and create more shape. Now, his issue with the fastball tonight has been placement - don't love him down at the knees with that thing. It's shaped and designed up in the zone. Think of him as a poor-mans Shota in that aspect. Shota throws 90-91 but it's the shape of the fastball (his is better than Michaels) and gets good whiff when he gets it up. Ideally Soroka would be on the upper third of the plate when he comes with the four-seam, not on the bottom third.
  15. Jason Ross
    horsefeathers. He hung that one.
  16. Jason Ross
    Matt wrote an article about it. The velocity drop is designed and isn't really a bug, it's a feature.
  17. Jason Ross
    To bring some data, he gets a whiff 38.1% of the time and has a 27.4% put away on it.
  18. Jason Ross
    That slurve is nasty.
  19. Jason Ross
    wOBA: .282 xwOBA: .305 League 3b wOBA: .307 I'm not sure he's underperformed so much as he's been the recipient of poor batted ball variance. Part of what is happening more recently stems from change, but part of this is that he's always been unlucky and some balls that weren't dropping are more frequently.
  20. Jason Ross
    Well, Akin has a .371 wOBA against for LHH. This isn't a bad spot for Pete.
  21. Jason Ross
    Brasier has a 2.14 ERA and a 3.33 xFIP in the year. He didn't pick Ethan Roberts, he picked a RHP who has been very good between two RHP who has been very good.
  22. Jason Ross
    Well, bad luck on Counsell's end. Yeah it was a rough pitch.
  23. Jason Ross
    Ahh! Well Braiser vs LHP - 29.6% K%, 3.7 BB%, 2.68 xFIP He's crushed lefties too.
  24. Jason Ross
    Because the top of the Orioles lineup is super lefty heavy. Henderson has a 67 wRC+ against lefties and Thielbar crushes lefties this year to the tune of a .147 wOBA. It's bad luck but it wasn't a bad call. In fact, it was easily the right call. It was just the wrong outcome, which can happen even when you make the right call. Henderson is an MLB hitter and a good one at that. Thielbar is a human. Sometimes the 1 of 100 happens.
  25. Jason Ross
    Fun inning from Kittredge
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