Baseball Miscellany

Changeups and two seamers have natural armside run because of the way you grip the baseball. Cutters, sliders, sweepers(which are all really just variations of of throwing the same grip) and curves have glove side run because your fingers are positioned on the outside of the baseball, causing it to spin that direction.

Wrist position matters a ton too

Good changeups are all arm side. A screwball is glove side and is an elbow wrecker.

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Aranda (Rays) just got his left wrist screwed up trying to catch a throw from 3rd that was drifting up the 1B line as Stanton (Yankees) arrived. Stanton was every bit as far inside the line as Cam was the other night when he was called out for interference. Today, not a peep.

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Gotta protect those mlb golden geese- the hated dojers, the bawston massholes, and most especially, the Evil Empire/yanks :man_shrugging:t3:

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:grimacing:

I cannot adequately describe the deliciousness of the Yankees’ RFer’s fuckup, or the “smash” that scored the winning run for Miami. Do yourself a favor and look it up.

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Yanks were up 12-10 starting the bottom of the 9th
 and then it all went to hell, glorious hell

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The Accidental Squeeze

Good grief.

Bananas, i say. He almost stuck the landing.

I have a lot of respect for Correa’s character. He’s a man who knows how to handle his business appropriately.

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Another good article from Chandler. I found this interesting.

I hadn’t thought about the idea of potentailly trading Pena. Of course, Correa has said on multiple occasions that he wants to play 3rd base going forward and not SS.

Far more likely imo is finding a trading partner who’ll take Walker, with salary bought down somewhat depending on how he performs the rest of the season.

Then again I initially thought the Correa talk was unrealistic bullshit so my opinions of what’s “likely” aren’t worth jack.

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“Crane, realizing he suddenly had the Twins’ attention, used his business acumen. The Astros kept hammering away at the Twins, and at one point, even talked about Astros first baseman Christian Walker being part of the package. By mid-afternoon Thursday, hours before the trade deadline, they got the Twins to swallow $33 milllion that would be spread over the life of the contract.”

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Trading Peña would just be abject stupidity.

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All of us:

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I believe it would be easier to find a first baseman’s mitt for Isaac.

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Nightengale clarifies that the Twins brought up Walker and the Astros said no.

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