You need to watch the other CF we have. Every time the other guys pull and play those balls on a bounce I will be sure to point it out to you. Heyward literally has ran down balls in CF to RCF as a CF the last few games that Almora whiffs on. You’re just a horsefeathering idiot, dude. We will keep a running tally every game the rest of the way, because you seem to forget about the balls he doesn't get.
What a loser not catching a Barreled ball that on average have over a 2.500 OPS on them. Should have started Heyward who would have just stopped and played it off the wall. Yeah I don’t care, that was an incredibly catchable ball and so was the other one he came in on. You need to watch the other CF we have. Every time the other guys pull and play those balls on a bounce I will be sure to point it out to you.
What a loser not catching a Barreled ball that on average have over a 2.500 OPS on them. Should have started Heyward who would have just stopped and played it off the wall.
They are grasping at straws trying to fit a round peg in a square hole with Zobrist out, its why 8 other guys have got starts there and why we have a overall OBP of .285 from the spot in the order.
Everyone knows teams do that. It's widely considered to be dumb and meaningless when you're talking about things like a dozen AB or less. It's old timey meatball horsefeathers. Why do all these teams who spend millions on analytics do it if it was totally meaningless? You would think Theo or Jed would say something when they go over things with Joe everyday.
For people who don't think they use SSS splits to make the line up. Heyward 1-for-13 vs Gray, Almora 3-for-7 with a HR.
If Russell was on the roster he would be at 2nd or SS with his 3-for-8 and 2 HR
Only 13 of those PA came hitting 5th and 30 came 7th despite the same PA total between the two spots. 5th .200/.385/.200/.585 in 13 PA vs LHP .367/.466/.617/1.082 in 73 PA vs RHP 7th .172/.200/.276/.476 in 30 PA vs LHP .367/.429/.571/1.000 in 56 PA vs RHP
You spelt I picked the best year since it fits the narrative better despite always bitching about SSS wrong. That "good" year with RISP has him up to .193 lifetime which only Mike Zunino is lower among players with 400 or more PA in the situation in all players fangraphs has listed in modern history.
Wait, wait, wait....so your response is to blatantly shift the goal posts to now argue that he must have just bad luck of the draw seen more LH pitchers when hitting 7th vs. 5th? Come on, man. When Heyward was hitting leadoff the first time Joe was moving him from 1st to 7th on some days so I would bet those bad 7 hole numbers were due to facing LHP and getting dropped down.
Schwarber has a .222 .351 .486 .837 line with RISP this season, which is clearly not "comically bad," with a BAbip of only .216 for a guy who usually is around .260, so, yeah, he's been reasonably unlucky in those spots. He's under 200 lifetime
The player has said he dislikes leading off and has had terrible numbers there since he said that, yet idiots think it doesn't mean anything. :lol: Maddon must just be really unlucky to pick every time he slumps to put him in the leadoff spot .296/.376/.478/.854 over 362 PA .159/.227/.377/.603 over 75 PA
Its not even about being better. There are good BP arms who can't handle the 9th trying to lock down a save, Good hitters can't hit in RBI spots or leading off. Baseball is a mental game as much as its physical and some roles or situations make players uncomfortable leading to poor performance.