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So JBJ has proven that if a RH pitcher gives him a pitch that is not breaking that is far enough out away from his body that he can view the pitch long enough and not lose sight of it way out in front of the plate, he might actually hit the thing. Anything and I do mean anything middle in, he is not likely to hit whether it is a straight FB or anything else. He will be the blind pig that occasionally finds a truffle if he does not actually fix this or at least try to go oppo as an effort to get back on track during the season.
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Has anybody heard anything on Carson Smith? Are they still waiting to do a further evaluation?
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Good start for Eddie. He may never be able to get through 6 innings with less than 100 pitches. But for Eddie, this was a darned good start.
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I would believe that were it not for: - both hitting AND pitching being turned into power games for no particular reason that would make sense other than that is what MLB wants to do - rules implementations clearly designed to favor big power hitters and power hitting over other aspects of the game. MLB has allowing the shift to flourish unabated for no particular reason and we have the rules around second base. - Adopting stats that favor starters going fewer innings like the quality start which is a mutation if I ever heard of one. Just because Bill James likes something is not a reason for MLB to adopt it as meaningful. - The juiced baseball is another example. We have hitters hitting HR's with broken bats now I could go on but will resist the temptation.
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A bit surprised Buck has let Hess stay in here for this. even though its only the 5th.
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Billy Hamilton is a speedy guy playing on a team that is going nowhere that has been going nowhere for years now. The league needs teams and teams need players. That does not mean Hamilton is studying pitchers the way a Ricky Henderson did or as any of the truly great base stealers did. Hamilton's best year stealing yielded 23 stolen bases. He has 2 stolen in 45 games this year. He has quickly turned into a roster filler on a bad team.
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Talented baseball players, not good base stealers. Good base stealers study pitchers religiously. Nobody does that any longer. They depend on coaches reports and if a guy is a total slug pitching the ball to home plate, they will steal off of him. Guys used to have starting pitcher's moves to first down pat. Of course now that starting pitchers only stay in the game for an average of 6 innings meaning some are only going to be around for 5, there is simply not as much incentive to put in that work. MLB has purposely pursued turning MLB into a power game, power hitting and power pitching. No real telling how it will work out. But there is no question that is what they are trying to do.
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Most of them shouldn't bunt. They should all be able to bunt a little and some of them should be downright good at it. That damage is done before they get here as is the damage to Devers fielding for example. Everybody tries to hit for power now including guys that can't hit more than 15 HR's a year if God came down from the heavens and was picking balls off their bats and carrying them over the wall. Those are the guys that should learn how to be good bat handlers and be able to bunt and if they have the speed should actually know how to steal.
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They don't work at stealing bases even if they have the speed to steal bases. No matter how good a baseball player you might be or how good an athlete you might be, you do well what you study and practice. They don't steal bases well, they don't bunt, some of them have bat control but not that many. The everyday players now hit for power and some of them field and thats it.
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Beni should be carving this guy up. Moreland should have too.
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Jesus we have some good defensive CFers in this division. Some of them even hit a little.
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He needs to stop tilting his head into the swing. At least one of his eyes losses the ball completely, maybe both. Pick a spot on the wall using both eyes and focus on it. Now cover one eye and tell me if your focus has not moved off that spot. That would be a stationary target which a pitched baseball is not.
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Jones is such a pain in the neck. He will hit a HR on you on occasion but more often than not he does more with pitchers pitches than most hitters in this league now.
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lol
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Hess is probably the best shot JBJ has had at getting a hit in days. He might not get one. But Hess does not have much ammo against LH hitters.
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Just ridiculous. JBJ can't see the ball. He losses it way out in front of the plate and is just swinging at air.
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I will take it with our guys up. But this is another blind ump
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I am not sure Hess has much of a way to get to LH hitters. JBJ might actually be able to hit this guy.
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JD has got such a Yankee Stadium RH hitter swing. They are going to hate seeing that guy come into MF Yankee Stadium.
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That was a nice cutter to finish him though
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You are right. King Nibble strikes again.
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1. Mookie Betts ® RF 2. Andrew Benintendi (L) LF 3. Mitch Moreland (L) 1B 4. J.D. Martinez ® DH 5. Rafael Devers (L) 3B 6. Eduardo Nunez ® 2B 7. Brock Holt (L) SS 8. Christian Vazquez ® C 9. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) CF
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Well its evident from continuing to insert JBJ in the lineup without any indication that he is actually trying to change anything that they are still in the "fight with JBJ's stubbornness about his swing" stage of events. They have to get past that first. But its pretty obvious that they are still making the effort. He certainly would not bring back anything worth talking about at this point because I imagine the rest of the league knows this is where the Sox are with him. So for now, its keep trying though I would insert him in the lineup less at this point as inserting him in the lineup won't help with his stubbornness. God help him the first time he sees an actual breaking pitch again because pitchers are so completely without concern for him at this point that they are not even bothering to do more than just zip four seam after four seam past him and watch him flail helplessly.
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Nice win...really nice outing from Rick. Hope we do get the game in tomorrow. Should win against the O's
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"So you might think that a ball would go farther on a dry day than on a humid day. But for every water molecule that we add to the air, we displace a heavier nitrogen or oxygen molecule. Since the addition of humidity actually makes the air less dense, a ball will go farther on a humid day than it will on a dry day."