The previous one was ticky tack. That one was an easy and absolutely correct call.
Soto had all the time in the world to get out of the way and instead did that.
TIL That Savant also tracks bat speed on pitchers. Here are the ones on the Astros that have enought data to be shown:
https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/bat-tracking?type=pitcher
Completely agree. Just find it strange that I don’t remember that ever happening and then we get two in a week.
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Just on first glance, Framber getting more squared up and more “blasts” sounds exactly right, along with his highest “competitive swings”. He’s not fooling anyone, and they’re teeing off.
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A breakdown, including a little background on how the current rule came into effect:
This is fun
Watch the video
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The Mets’ problems run a lot deeper than one shaky outing by a so-so reliever, even if he did get ejected and launch his glove into the stands. They can cut him if they want, but that’s not going to stop their defense from throwing balls wildly, or prevent Ottavino from getting crushed, or get Lindor to start hitting, or fix Alonzo’s hand, or …
They cannot ever fix their innate Mets-ness.
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Remember when the league was scared shitless of Cohen’s half billion dollar super-team? That lasted about a week.
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“That’s … where the Mets are at.”
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Thoughts and prayers for the fucking ny steM.
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Yeah I don’t give a shit, I just said it was fun
I didn’t know that Jason Lane is now the 3B coach for the Cubs.
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At least we won’t hear endless debates about whether this guy should be in the HOF
Time for a repost:
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Lifetime ban officially announced for Marcano. One-year bans as well for:
- Oakland RHP Michael Kelly
- Arizona LHP Andrew Saalfrank (AAA)
- San Diego LHP Jay Groome (AAA)
- Philadelphia 2B Jose Rodriguez (AAA)
Marcano put huge bets on baseball (totaling ~$150k, including on some Pirates games while he was on their major league injured list), but the others were all under $1k. Kelly in particular has to be kicking himself—he put down $99 across ten bets in 2021, which will now cost him over $700k in lost salary.
Angel Hernandez level accuracy.
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Betting on individual baseball games has to be one of the riskiest things you can do. There is simply too much variation and too much randomness in any one game for that to be a sane move.
50 years ago tonight: Ten Cent Beer Night in Cleveland
(Free/gift link)
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