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There is no way we are catching Baltimore
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I'm fine with legislating out shifts though I did have a similar thought to Beveridge. I wonder if hitters that have come/are coming up in the last few years are better at pushing the ball to the opposite side of the field to combat shifts
not that I'd want to wait for it. Shifts are lame
not that I'd want to wait for it. Shifts are lame
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I can't have a rational discussion with someone that wants to ban the shift in baseball. The old adage of 'hit it where they ain't' still needs to hold true today. If you can't hit the other way or drop a bunt down when they're basically begging you to try it, then you're just not a complete player. You're a player that just cares about exit velo and launch angle and want to try to hit it 800 miles. You have a right to try to knock it into the next time zone. I have the right as a defense to keep you from getting on base.
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Players that just care about making the majors. But I'm fine with the shifts
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I 100% agree with this but I also think it's hurting the watchability of the game because they can't figure out how to do that. And as a result it's hurting the future of baseball. So I don't knowI can't have a rational discussion with someone that wants to ban the shift in baseball. The old adage of 'hit it where they ain't' still needs to hold true today. If you can't hit the other way or drop a bunt down when they're basically begging you to try it, then you're just not a complete player. You're a player that just cares about exit velo and launch angle and want to try to hit it 800 miles. You have a right to try to knock it into the next time zone. I have the right as a defense to keep you from getting on base.
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Thanks ulf.I 100% agree with this but I also think it's hurting the watchability of the game because they can't figure out how to do that. And as a result it's hurting the future of baseball. So I don't knowI can't have a rational discussion with someone that wants to ban the shift in baseball. The old adage of 'hit it where they ain't' still needs to hold true today. If you can't hit the other way or drop a bunt down when they're basically begging you to try it, then you're just not a complete player. You're a player that just cares about exit velo and launch angle and want to try to hit it 800 miles. You have a right to try to knock it into the next time zone. I have the right as a defense to keep you from getting on base.
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The watchability of the game has also been hurt by the amount of count working that happens in each at bat. The Yankees really started it and yeah, swing at the best pitch but the pitchers haven’t adjusted for the most part and you’ve got starters burning thru 100 pitches in 5 innings.
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The unfortunate part is I just don't really have much of an idea of what the answer is. I have ideas on how to speed up games but it doesn't make the product itself much better. Just less airtime of it. Maybe a bigger strike zone?
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It's just amazing how much the game, especially pitching, has changed the last ten years. There are too many damn "bullpen games" anymore.
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I’ve seen some ideas of raising or lowering the mound, moving it back, etc. Some of it was to protect pitchers’ arms from overuse and the high velocities, but also to give the hitters a fraction of a second more to hit the ball. Not sure if that’s going to happen though.
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It's not just hitters working the count. How many times do you see a pitcher go up 0-2 and the next 2 pitches are a fastball 10 feet high or a breaking ball that bounces 18 inches in front of the plateThe watchability of the game has also been hurt by the amount of count working that happens in each at bat. The Yankees really started it and yeah, swing at the best pitch but the pitchers haven’t adjusted for the most part and you’ve got starters burning thru 100 pitches in 5 innings.
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Why can't they try and throw a strikeout pitch instead of a low percentage chase pitch
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We all need to come to grips that the cat is out of the bag with sports analytics. Nerds with spreadsheets cracked the code on baseball and they’ve done it with hoops too. We all need to sit back and ask ourselves what we *think* baseball should be. Hit and runs? Bunting guys over? Pitchers getting a chance to grind it out in the 8th or 9th inning? No rule change is going to bring any of that stuff back. None of that will change the fact that the most efficient way to get a guy out is to strike him out, and none of that will change the fact that a strikeout is just as much of an out as an out, and none of that will change that the easiest way to score a run it to hit it where they aint (and by aint, i mean they aint in the outfield).
Banning the shift won’t do diddly poo. What will that do? Add a couple points on some overgrown left handed oofuses batting average? Big deal. Kyle seager isn’t going to stop swinging for the fences on 2 strike counts if there is no shift becuase he might be able to squeak a ground ball in between second and first. He is still going to try to hit a dinger (i said dinger) and if he rolls over a changeup, hits a grounder, and it is a base hit becuase the third baseman is actually playing third, he won’t care.
It is too hard to score runs scoring singles, no one gets paid for hitting singles, and no one is trying to do it. Roll tide.
Banning the shift won’t do diddly poo. What will that do? Add a couple points on some overgrown left handed oofuses batting average? Big deal. Kyle seager isn’t going to stop swinging for the fences on 2 strike counts if there is no shift becuase he might be able to squeak a ground ball in between second and first. He is still going to try to hit a dinger (i said dinger) and if he rolls over a changeup, hits a grounder, and it is a base hit becuase the third baseman is actually playing third, he won’t care.
It is too hard to score runs scoring singles, no one gets paid for hitting singles, and no one is trying to do it. Roll tide.
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Losing to the O’s should lose him the MVP
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I agree with you on this point. It drives me nuts in a HS game when a pitcher is clearly overmatching a batter and gasses him for 2 strikes and then messes around trying to get a cutesy off-speed pitch for a strike 3. Just gas him one more time so I can get out of this plate gear a few minutes earlier, please.It's not just hitters working the count. How many times do you see a pitcher go up 0-2 and the next 2 pitches are a fastball 10 feet high or a breaking ball that bounces 18 inches in front of the plateThe watchability of the game has also been hurt by the amount of count working that happens in each at bat. The Yankees really started it and yeah, swing at the best pitch but the pitchers haven’t adjusted for the most part and you’ve got starters burning thru 100 pitches in 5 innings.
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I had a weird feeling this was going to happen.Ohtani pitched and hit leadoff tonight. 0-4 with 3 Ks so far and 4IP 4ER. What a bum. Os snapping like an 18 game skid because if him
Meanwhile in the Dodgers Padres game...
Pollock's homer sends Dodgers to 5-3 win over Padres in 16
— After 16 innings that took 5 hours, 49 minutes to play, featuring 489 pitches by 19 pitchers who stranded a combined 35 baserunners, the streaking Los Angeles Dodgers finally got to celebrate.
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