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  1. UK1679666180
    Nate, any guesses on what will happen in the MWL next year as far as new location and diff. affiliates? I've heard several rumors, but none appear to close to being true.
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    As far as local baseball, this might be a win/win if Beloit and Kane Cty. win. Although, I've seen both teams more than enough.
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    What's he still doing spending a full season at low-A at age 22 with 5 viable pitches, given the success he's had this season? Ft. Myers is loaded w/them as well.
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    Pino also threw a good cutter as well.
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    The 3 year contract doesn't help that cause.
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    It was good to see Oneri there. It was the best I've seen Atkins the few times I've caught him, especially his curve. I don't think Peoria had a runner past 3rd, when they did get runners on, they hit into DPs. Pino didn't overpower anyone, but he pitches backwards and locates as well as anyone in the MWL w/good movement. Terry Ryan was also there from the Twins.
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    UK vs. 1-AA North Texas. Uk was slaughtered by UL and NT was beaten badly by Texas. 24-15 UK as UK gets 1/4th of the way to their season's win total in the farewell Rich Brooks tour.
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    I think the Farnsworth trade has been considered good for quite a while now. I thought he was traded when his value was its lowest coming off that poor second half. The year after the trade he did very well w/Det and ATL. I didn't have a problem with trading Kyle, the timing didn't work for me. There was a good possibility at the time that Farnsworth would increase his value from the point he was traded from the Cubs, his trade to ATL helped confirm that. Not directed at you Bruno.... Statistically, Novoa has been far from avg., he's been one of the worst.
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    When the Sox were playing Tampa, did Thome cancel out Zobrist being from the Peoria area as far as rooting for TB? After all, Thome is from the same area. :)
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    Those types of camps are usually only for 2 days and about 4 hours long, those aren't geared towards anything beyond an introductory course w/little personal attention. But, the Bulls/Sox academy has Fall Leagues geared towards personal instruction as well as extended playing w/wood bats and the academy also offers separate personal instruction depending on the financial capabilities. Cangelosi also runs a very good academy.
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    Because that's what personalized instruction involves. one instructor and 200+ kids. Exactly. Why spend $200 on something you wont remmeber in a couple of months? Instead, you will have Mr. Mill's videos at your house all the time. With you being in the Chicagoland area, I'd love to see a reference as to whom you might be speaking of. I know baseball in this area and I know the academies for the ones that have the most demand, they are extremely well run and able to provide instrux that has worked. I've seen enough players in this area that have been able to make dramatic improvements from the Summer of going into their Senior year into the next Spring.
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    I might catch the one in Beloit, but that's a maybe at this stage.
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    It depends on the program, the legit programs restrict the number of players in their academy at one time for that reason of personalized instruction. Some are in it for the money where the round up as many kids as poss. and some are truly concerned with getting the kids in there are working with them.
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    College players use this as well. You can call him on Thursdays for pitching advice. I'm sure it's helped out some pitchers and he offers sound advice, but I'd never recommend it over personalized instruction (assuming I know the instructor).
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    But that's a ML pitcher, they aren't going to Mills for pitching advice. His site is geared towards HS players and overzealous parents w/little leaguers (worry more about your kid still having fun than drowning him in technical issues). While reading a book or DVDs on mechanics, they're putting their trust into that player or parent as the one to judge his flaw, that's why I don't like it.
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    It's just not personalized enough, it can't break down a pitcher's individual problem like a personalized instructor can. If a pitcher's leaning too far back or his center of gravity is too far behind his stride at foot strike, the pitcher watching it will likely overcompensate and start rushing. I've seen enough improvement and good instruction to be able to have confidence in local instructors.
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    While I'm sure his interest is in the right place, anyone who would downgrade the importance of local instructors is misguided. If a parent had a choice between that program or one of the better instrux programs in the area, I'd hope they'd do the research and find they'd be better off with personalized instruction.
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    You're working from the rare exception. HS kids are lucky if they have a command pitch and an out pitch, even then they're likely all-conference. You're talking about pitchers with 4 pitches (FB, 2 seam, Ch, CB) and the ability to locate all of them. Most ML'ers can't do that. It's a good principle, finding someone who can do those things is another story.
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    Each pitcher has a "command" pitch, more often than not a command pitch will be his FB and he if can locate it properly, the pitcher should throw it. Each team should have an idea of a hitter's hot/cold chart as well using his batting style as an indicator of where the hitter typically likes the ball (crouched hitters like the ball up more than not and hitter that stand tall usually like the ball low). If the pitcher can't throw his change for a strike as much as his FB, the chance for the hitter taking and getting the count 3-1 is too high. The ability to throw a change where he wants is extremely rare and it's a pitch that's typically at its best down and away from the strike zone. Not enough pitchers are comfortable enough with the change to throw it when they're behind in the count.
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    Pitch is different than a count, which is why a batter is more unsuccessful down 1-2 in the count rather than 0-1.
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    Heh, let me look at your previous statement.
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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.
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    Had Johnson hit a line drive that CF made a great diving catch that allowed Ellis to score, determining whether or not it was a "good" AB is much more difficult than the cut and dry productive measure. Without watching it, I can't tell you if it was a good or bad AB, I can tell you it was unproductive as far as the game situation.
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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?
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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.
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