CliffKlowers

No need to kick your dog yet. It is only the second inning. It will be OK perhaps.

The effect of defensive shifts on baseball averages and power is discussed in this article. This topic would warrant a separate thread however. http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-baseball-defensive-shifts-20150719-story.html

I can respect and honor all of the all time greats baseball players. Mantle was great, Williams may have been the greatest pure hitter. Willie Mays and Roberto Clemente were super versatile. It was a joy to see or read about all of them. I do not need to rank them. Same with basketball and hockey. Any metric that attempts to rank them is futile and meaningless. If I were a St. Louis fan then I would say Musial but I am not. Why bother? It depends on who you rooted for. Such wasted energy trying to do so.

His best game was the five innings against the Yankees a few weeks back. What are the MLB rules about shifts? I thought that they were implemented by the team managers and their FO? Was the Lou Boudreau shift against Williams implemented by Lou Boudreau? The shifts really hurt Big Papi much more than Ted Williams since many teams employed it. Only a few teams did it against Ted. Many hitters today are hurt by the shift.

Stolen bases may be less important now than in years past because many teams use sabermetrics and have read Bill James. Many teams may have decided that SB attempts are a poor percentage move in general. MLB at the top level is not responsible.

Right field requires the better defensive player ( more acreage, sq. ft. ). Right field also demands a stronger and accurate throwing arm.

You are correct -- mea culpa. Just read up on it. Humidity is a measure of the percentage of water vapor in the air. An increase in humidity has a surprising effect on air density: As humidity increases, air density decreases. In damp air, the large, heavy oxygen and nitrogen molecules are replaced by lighter water molecules, resulting in less density -- in essence, lighter air. Physicist Paul Doherty explains it this way: "We think of humidity as something that's added to the air on a hot, muggy day. 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." The changes in air density related to humidity are not large: Compared to dry air at the same temperature and pressure, there's only about a 1 percent reduction in density for a humidity of 80 percent.

Batted balls travel further in the dry air. Think of Denver. Ask any Physics 101 student. Dry air, less density, less resistance.

OK, FU. You are an impulsive BS artist. Try to be patient.

Benintendi HR. Life is good.

Yeah Mookie. Good to be a Red Sox fan. Concentrate on what is good.

It is a given that every new manager sucks. There is no honeymoon. We are mean and all knowing. We also all have 20-20 hindsight. We are smart.

I live out of market for Red Sox games since I live outside of New England. I subscribed to DirecTV Extra Innings and get every single game with two feeds ( home and away). I have no problem whatsoever. Very happy with the service. I pay about $180 per year but that also gives me the games on my mobile devices. A good buy, only $1.50 per game.

I just got these new eyeglasses to cure my JBJ myopia. I was really hoping to have a wider and deeper vision. Fuking eye doctor.

How does the bullpen fare statistically with others?

Good article in today's Herald about E-Rod's mechanics being affected by his sore knee. They will make adjustments.

The best use of technology in any sport that I watch is in tennis. No more John McEnroe types shouting to the judge " Are you serious?" Of course that technology only looks at chalk lines and baseball is much more complicated.

If you need a definition of what is an Internet troll All you have to do is to Google " internet troll" Read it, comprehend it, remember it, recognize it.

The moderator is on vacation so we will have to live with the Babe. Humor him but don't take him seriously. He doesn't.

I come here expecting to hear Red Sox fans complaining about the umps after a Red Sox loss. That is par for the course and typical on a Red Sox forum. What I don't expect is to see posts from a Yankee fan who is not only on the wrong forum but is obviously obsessed with annoying Sox fans on their own forum. Doesn't he have a life? Why the hatred and need to irritate innocent people?

If a pitching machine was set up at home plate and different speeds were inputed and the ideal trajectory angle ( 45 degrees) was calibrated then the longest balls hit would be from those at the highest exit speed. Nothing new here. Just the laws of physics that are taught on day #1 of rocket science 101.

I also think that Farrell is doing a decent job but then I don't scrutinize every lineup change and decision that he makes unless an obvious mistake is apparent.

If the topic at hand is "exit speed" off the bat Then among other factors The length of the bat is also a factor or variable Others are weight of the bat Speed of the swing Strength of the batter's grip. Exit speed and trajectory determine how far a ball will be hit as well as the wind, atmosphere, altitude

Did anyone take notice that De La Rosa stinks with Colorado? Didn't we used to have him? Looks like getting rid of him was a wise decision.

Another factor not mentioned above is the the exit speed off of the bat would vary with leverage which would increase with how far down the bat that contact was made. Those using 42 inch bats would get more leverage / momentum than those using a 34 inch bat. I.e. a long catapault would usually throw a rock much further than a short one.