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Can I take credit for this.... cuz I want to.
Can I take credit for this.... cuz I want to.
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Rizzo bomb followed by olt torpedo
Olt shows patience getting 2 walks and gets one he can handle
Olt shows patience getting 2 walks and gets one he can handle
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Pitcher must suck
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We need to get Riz in on the HR derby as well as the all star game. He has man power! Him and Stanton could win it for the NL alone haha
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Just a thought on Lake...
Wondering if he pressing now with coghlin and Ruggiano hitting and playing more and the possibility of Alcantara coming up and playing some CF
Could be looking at a demotion
Wondering if he pressing now with coghlin and Ruggiano hitting and playing more and the possibility of Alcantara coming up and playing some CF
Could be looking at a demotion
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I've heard this a couple times recently... anyone have evidence to support this? Not that I think it's impossible... just wondering if anyone's looked at the numbers.
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I don't really buy that myth.. How can one night of extended BP really throw off a guys rhythm he has been working on for years? Doesn't make much sense. I think it's just in dudes' heads.
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Bryant seems to have responded just fine after winning his derby...
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Probably more of a madden curse type thing or the rule of 270 for RBs. Likely a lot of the guys who end up in the HR derby are perhaps having abnormally good years and when they slump in the 2nd half people blame the HR derby rather than a normal regression to the mean. Ken Griffey won a bunch of HR derby's and it really didn't change him. There are cases of players who were in it having bad years but like the madden curse I think it's more a case of other circumstances.
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They change the the plane of their swing for the HR Derby. Some people get it back more quickly than others.
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There has been some players over the years that were not your typical big HR hitters who struggled a bit after going a couple rounds in the derby because of a few reasons...
1. Adjusted swings to hit HRs
2. Stayed with that type of swing because they had some success in derby with it
3. Some guys actually said they were still fatigued from all the swinging they did.. tired arms, legs
Most hitters find their groove again after a while though
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So... perhaps Wada is the next in line of cubs out of no-where pitchers? In AAA this year he had 9.30 k/9 and 2.30 bb/9 with 2.66/3.66 ERA/FIP. That got a bit of a meh response given he's 33. But, today's been nice.
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I know they wanba get him qualified for win but unless he gets a DP ball need to think sbout pulling him if he gives up another base runner or two
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Castillo looks better n better with those pick offs at first
Now if he can improve a bit with throwing them out at 2B
Now if he can improve a bit with throwing them out at 2B
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I can't tell you about individual players, but this is an example of how the Derby swing works...
[video=youtube;y9CEuJ5e2cM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9CEuJ5e2cM[/video]
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Our pitchers are God awful at keeping runners close.
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Castro with two nice plays to stop the bleeding. I would venture to guess 2 years ago he would have never made both plays. Maybe 1 of them, but not both.
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Cant disagree there....
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I sometimes wonder if that is a philosophy of Bosio. We have had from extremely slow pitchers to home the last couple of years. I wonder if they tell them not to break mechanics just to get it there a touch faster.
As for Billy Hamilton, the only way you catch that fucking dude is a chest high fastball and hope he didnt get a great jump. You throw any kind of breaking pitch. He is going to steal second easily.
