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But the emphasis on launch angle resulted in more home runs, and run scoring stayed pretty much the same. This year run scoring has dipped down to 4.38, from 4.83 in 2019 and 4.65 in 2020. It appears that the difference may be the baseballs, which have higher seams and produce more spin. So now fans of offense and runs are getting the worst of all possible worlds.
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It's not really the hitting into the shift that's unwatchable. It's all the K's and the lack of balls in play.
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Guys like Steve Matz have good nights. He wouldn't be still in the bigs otherwise.
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That ain't gonna happen. It's already been tried to some degree with the tax and revenue sharing.
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The juiced ball was blamed for the surge in home runs, not hits.
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Sale's 300 K's night comes to mind.
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It's been said that some pitches are more high-stress than others. In any case, Boone is clearly not at fault.
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You can blame whoever you want. Maybe the analytics people and coaches who are apparently telling the hitters to work on their launch angle and not worry about K's. Regardless of who you blame, the game has changed fairly radically in some ways. And unfortunately those ways are not good for the fans.
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Kershaw vs. Greinke - a classic pitching matchup.
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And Kluber was coming off the no-hitter.
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And there were other people who said the Red Sox were lowballing him with the $300 mill offer. People have some widely diverging opinions.
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As an accountant, I buy into the deferred money factor.
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Me as well. Under normal circumstances, the deal he signed with the Dodgers was a team-friendly one, when you factor in the deferred money and the 25.55 million AAV.
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It was only $6 million saved for 2020 because of the pro-rating. Sorry, but bean-counters gonna bean-count.
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Which shaved a little fraction off the team's massive financial losses from the pandemic. Not much of a cause for celebration.
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I don't think you'll ever hear Mookie say that even if it's true. He's got too much savvy and class to do that. He knows no good would come of it.
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5/23 at Philadelphia
Bellhorn04 replied to Maxbialystock's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
It's a nasty little feature of the forum software that when you screw up starting a thread you can't just delete it. -
It also turned out that the same pandemic that turned it into a 60 game season may have heavily influenced Mookie's decision to take the Dodgers' offer.
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Red Sox fans and media are a tough bunch. They have very little tolerance for underperformance, whether it's injury-related or just a slump. Maybe that's something Mookie was thinking about when he resisted signing the big deal with the Sox.
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The Rays are a biblical pestilence.
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2021 MLB draft
Bellhorn04 replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Our new head of ops is a pitching savant, though. -
So obviously you think Judge should be leading off for the Yankees.
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That's a hefty BAbip in May! Looks like April should be .246, though.
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His K/BB and FIP are both good. I'm starting to wonder if some of these peripherals should be chucked out the window, though...
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Obviously it's not that cut and dried.
