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I didn't even look at them until CW11 brought up hard and soft% but I don't see anybody scolding him for looking at that small sample. I completely agree with everything you said but I can't not see last year's first half struggles as a result of trying to yank everything. Like I said, Joe acknowledged it as a problem and he wanted them to shift their approach at the plate and they pretty clearly did and they saw a 48 point BABIP increase and got back to plating a [expletive] of runs. I feel like I'm watching them bang their heads into the wall when they hit a bunch of atem balls and have nothing to show for it. I'm not labeling it as a fatal flaw. I'm saying that I'm not surprised they have a low BABIP. All the horsefeathers I cited and complained about in the first half last year only lingered until the break. It's not like I was egregiously wrong about any of it.
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Since we are digging into those numbers I will point out that we are 1st in pull % and have the highest BABIP among the top 5 in that category at 280. I get it that we are hitting the ball hard and we want to summarily attribute that to bad luck but I think we must acknowledge that in this day of defensive shifts and more accurate than ever spray charts, we are playing into our opponents hands a bit. This is the same nonsense you spouted ad nauseam last year. We told you repeatedly that you were digging too deep into things and trying to make stats say things that they weren't capable of saying. And then the Cubs BABIP'd .328 in the second half last year, completely debunking your notions. And now you're ready to dive back in after a 5 game sample? I mean, seriously, you are trying to take Pull% from 4 games and deducing some Big Theory about our organizational philosophies. First half 2017: 43.6 (1st) Second: 39.9 (16th) They didn't debunk horsefeathers. Maddon even talked about it several times last season. He said he was preaching the same thing but the hitters weren't listening. It's not an organizational philosophy; it's a lot of young hitters who aren't yet adept at hitting the ball where it's pitched.
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Proposal for TBL theme in this thread
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Dudes in Houston pulled out all the stops to get the cover off the new WS banner, including using a leaf blower as another dude climbed the stanchion to physically separate it. That was hilarious.
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Since we are digging into those numbers I will point out that we are 1st in pull % and have the highest BABIP among the top 5 in that category at 280. I get it that we are hitting the ball hard and we want to summarily attribute that to bad luck but I think we must acknowledge that in this day of defensive shifts and more accurate than ever spray charts, we are playing into our opponents hands a bit....if we have a high BABIP for similarly pull-heavy teams, then doesn't that kind of crap on your point? 280 is nothing to write home about and would have been 28th in the league last year.
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Since we are digging into those numbers I will point out that we are 1st in pull % and have the highest BABIP among the top 5 in that category at 280. I get it that we are hitting the ball hard and we want to summarily attribute that to bad luck but I think we must acknowledge that in this day of defensive shifts and more accurate than ever spray charts, we are playing into our opponents hands a bit.
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Watched it right in your wheelhouse, Kyle
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That failed toss into the stands is a good representation of our first 5 games
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Watching the Shlubs
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Give us Almora
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Have they not been abysmal against pitchers they've never seen? Is Matt Davidson not slugging 1.857? Really don't know. I'm only giving a horsefeathers about the Cubs.
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25 year old Jarlin Garcia goes 6 innings of shutout ball Caleb Smith 5.1 1 ER Dillon Peters 6 shutout 27-year-old Matt Davidson is Hank Aaron. Have they not been abysmal against pitchers they've never seen?
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*checks notes* 25 year old Jarlin Garcia goes 6 innings of shutout ball Caleb Smith 5.1 1 ER Dillon Peters 6 shutout
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Hot take alert: I question our scouting on pitchers our hitters are facing for the first time. They've been abysmal.
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I agree. It's a short arm herky jerky motion.
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Chatnogood
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General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
We Got The Whole 9 replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
Random but I always thought fouls would be included in swinging strikes (swstr%) rate. Is that not the case? -
General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
We Got The Whole 9 replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
Rangers and Blue Jays, as a team, are making contact like Joey Gallo in the early going -
Both teams lead the league in shutouts
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Kontos comes in in relief and throws one pitch 5 feet outside to the backstop and on the next pitch he crosses up Cervelli and plunks the ump in the head, knocking him out of the game. Lol
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Bruce Miles profile pic reminds me of
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i hated it when they used CGI for MAWWWWWWWWW in the late seasons I hated when they used her ever
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NL Central: Reds, Pirates and others
We Got The Whole 9 replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in General Baseball Talk
What the horsefeathers was Anderson doing even sliding there... -
To Lester and Kyle in the field
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I love that they lost but did take Thor down a peg. Dude is obnoxious and the fawning over him makes me ill.