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  1. notin
    Yeah his 5% walk rate is definitely not good. It was 10% in the minors, but it’s going backwards…
  2. notin
    What’s your point? That I’m the only one who’s right? The way Grissom has hit the ball, meaning his GB/LD/FB splits, his BA really should be .250-275 range. It’s nowhere near that. So why do you say he’s lucky?
  3. notin
    And what does that have to do with him being lucky? Or will this just be another one of those “it’s just my opinion” things people like to hide behind?
  4. notin
    A BABIP of .167 with a line drive rate of 25% is absolutely unlucky. What’s your logic for calling him lucky, I ask, not expecting any sort of actual response?
  5. notin
    I remember Gamble and his card. The man finished his career with 666 RBIs, and then nearly doubled down with 656 runs scored. He’s too evil to quote…
  6. notin
    Fred is the worst umpire. You can’t get through to that guy…
  7. notin
    The rules do explicitly state even on infield flies the runner can be called for interference, as the fielder has the right of way on a batted ball. Controversial ending, but Junior Valentine (for once) might have made the right call. Andrew Vaughn needs to stay awake on the bases….
  8. notin
    I think the Sox might re-sign him if he clears waivers. But he is a tough player to claim given his injury history, recent performances, and lack of options…
  9. notin
    But there still had to be people on base for any player to drive in. Know why Rafaela leads the Sox in RBI this year? He’s come up with more people on base than anyone else on the Sox. The reason you can’t really count on RBI is there is nothing about Ortiz or ARod or any premier hitter that guarantees he will come up with people on base. Just like Devers this year…
  10. notin
    Mata seems very likely a DFA candidate…
  11. notin
    Just like a teenage girl is to Austin Maddox. Sorry. Too soon?
  12. notin
    Also helps that Spalding threw underhand…
  13. notin
    An over the top or 3/4 pitcher is releasing the ball significantly higher than the strike zone and throwing at a downward angle. A sidearm pitcher can throw it more level and the lack of an angle can give the illusion of a rising pitch…
  14. notin
    But the Mike Tyson Mysteries was far superior to the Muhammad Ali cartoon…
  15. notin
    We will never know, but what we do know is players are bigger now, more athletic now, train longer now, are more exposed to baseball now, and throw harder now. If Koufax was a young major leaguer today, he’d have been exposed to all the advancements and trainings and youth leagues, and he’d very likely be an even better pitcher for it…
  16. notin
    Or the myth of Bob Feller throwing 114 mph and Nolan Ryan throwing 116 mph…
  17. notin
    Cobb would tell you he’d still be the best player today…
  18. notin
    “Ball one!”
  19. notin
    A pitcher can’t get two blown saves in one game. Unless you go play a position for an inning while your team retained the lead. Once he blew the first save, he was in line for a win or loss…
  20. notin
    It was the fifth run in a 5-4 game. It didn’t feel so important at the time, but it wound up being the difference. But it’s never had the proper significance attached to it…
  21. notin
    I think so, too. Not even sure if giving them a year to adjust makes that much difference. If only it was so easy...
  22. notin
    Yes and no. Mays and Robinson's plays were great, but in this exit velocity/launch angle era, we are seeing harder hit balls with less time to react for a defender. This not only comes from better hitter mechanics, but also the increase in pitching velocity, which means more kinetic energy to the pitched ball. If a faster pitched ball gets barreled, it becomes a faster hit ball, simply because that energy cannot be destroyed. That is, unless some hitter goes all Roy Hobbs on that ball and just pounds it into a scattered pile of leather and twine...
  23. notin
    The expanded players gets more teams in, but we still just crown one winner. It makes the path through the post-season tougher, but also includes those teams whose sole flaw before that they just happened to play in a division with one better team. I hate seeing good teams eliminated solely based on geography....
  24. notin
    Without that year, what would you say?
  25. notin
    Part of his point is they didn't have them. Of course, they didn't have a lot of things as well, like a complete talent pool made of more than just mid-sized white guys. Even if you want to argue the best players were comparable to today's best, the back end of those players is much worse, even with the league being nearly one half the size. That's probably a big part of the reason more players hit .400 back then, while also facing more pitchers with sub-2.00 ERAs...
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