I'm hoping Dalton looks kind of good but we lose all of his starts, prompting the switch, and we dump him onto a win-now team when their QB goes down. One can dream, right?
I continue to be totality blown away by Marte. This mf has 20 steals, 0 CS, in 30 games with Oakland. A freaking perfect 100+ pace. He's 42/45 on the year. Top notch sprint speed but your do not get there without unparalleled instinct and know-how. At his age it's one of the most incredible accomplishments this season in baseball.
Watching highlights on the MLB app with captions on is quite a bit of comedy. They have a data bank of names that sometimes hilariously override what the announcers actually say. So the announcer says "breaking ball" and then caption says "Zack Greinke ball". Then for "grand slam" it said "Greg Amsinger" and so on. Every highlight is littered with them.
None of them are as important as launch angle and speed, but wind, spin, and altitude also play pretty big roles in total distance. Thank you. I figured wind did, but on such low trajectory, I just couldn't see it making such a drastic difference.
I readily accept that there's a lot I don't know. This article has me bugging. Maybe some of you can explain how this works. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/a-steep-dive-into-shohei-ohtanis-latest-homer-and-other-statcast-extremes/ So I'm looking at these tables and I see some numbers that are confusing to me. I see 2 different home runs, with almost identical launch angles and exit velocities but with drastically different distances traveled. Look at the table for home runs with the highest EV of the Statcast era. You have Stanton and Machado each with the lowest LA ever recorded on HR, at 15 degrees, Machado at 119.6 and Stanton at 119.3. But Machado's bomb went just 357 feet, whereas Stanton's went 416. Doesn't add up to me.