Having pitchers try to hit isn’t grownup baseball. It’s like watching kids play.
I object to your thinking.
I recall that his teammates called him “Wamby”.
He tells his story well in “The Glory of Their Times”, which is probably the best baseball book ever.
No, I wouldn’t consider starting Wright, but would be a nice long arm out of the bullpen.
Price couldn’t hang long enough to record a W. And Kimbrel, ugh, I’m going to be sick if we have to bring him in to close out a 1 run game.
Ian Kinsler is the guy that I have never liked but now he’s on my team so I feel like I have to root for him. And yet, sick as it is, there is almost satisfaction when he goes 0 for 4, golden sombrero, stranding 7 runners. Hopefully that’s the last we’ll see him.
Said by you after a pitcher hits a homer off one of the premier starting pitchers in the NL. :smack:
Which is notable because it happens so extremely rarely.
And it is a beautiful thing!
Look, it’s simple. If you like the DH, watch AL ball. You don’t have to knock on my door like a Jehovah’s Witness, trying to get me to convert.
Watching catchers, and for that matter most first basemen, try to run the bases isn’t real baseball, it’s childish. Let’s institute the Designated runner rule. Teams are allowed to have a sprinter on their roster who’s only job is to run the bases in place of the catcher, and maybe the first baseman, and possibly the DH if there is one. They stand right behind the batter and run if they make contact.
Also while we are at it there are a ton of shortstops who are brilliant fielders that never get called up because they can’t hit. We should be able to DH for them too. And catchers.
Ok let’s have three teams. One group just plays defense. One plays offense. One runs the bases.
Also unlimited pitchers. New pitching matchups for each batter.
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Here’s just the dumbest question from myself, an actual baseball fan…
I’m watching everyone talk about how great of a fastball Beuhler has, and that he throws it all the time. So, like, why aren’t hitters just hitting the shit out of it all the time? They know it’s coming, they don’t have to worry about movement or anything, just swing away.
Clearly there’s a reason, can someone enlighten me?
Because he’s got a pretty good curveball (and an average change up) that start in the same location as the fastball, but don’t end up in nearly the same place. ETA: so I guess I disagree that he throws it “all the time.”
I’d almost go for a DH for catchers after watching Grandal stink it up all postseason.
When someone actually proposes anything like this, let me know.
I haven’t seen Buehler, but I saw Mariano Rivera, who was another 1-pitch pony. The thing about Rivera was, even though he had one pitch, he perfected his technique so that slight changes in the grip, slight changes in arm angle were difficult to detect. The hitters see essentially the same motion again and again, but very fine adjustments to grip and angles and release points aren’t obvious - which means that hitters have to try to detect the spin. Basically, Rivera was so good at tinkering with his one pitch that hitters almost had to guess right.
Compare that with a guy like Kershaw who has 5 pitches. Yes, he has 5 pitches, but hitters probably can pick up on subtle cues to guess which one might be coming next. When Kershaw’s on, he uses speed to fool hitters, but the one weakness he has is location. There are pitchers out there who use better location than Kershaw (Mad Bum, for instance).
I believe his point was to satirize the reasoning behind the DH for pitchers. :rolleyes:
I know what his point is, of course.:rolleyes:yourself. My point is that it’s stupid since no one has ever actually proposed that.
But I find this sniping by both sides about the DH in almost any baseball thread tedious. I really should have resisted the temptation of responding.
That Marlins fan was behind the plate again. I enjoyed watching him in games 1 and 2.
Or was it the lovely lady sitting next to him that I enjoyed watching?
Counsell left his starter in for a 5 1/3 innings this time, which makes a lot more sense with that bullpen. Bringing relief too early puts a lot of pressure on the pen, especially in later innings. But by allowing starters to get into the 6th (or even just the fifth) makes the bullpen more effective, because they can be utilized in different ways. If he’s gonna pull starters in the 3rd, then he needs to convert a 4th or 5th starter a reliever.
Counsell could come out of this postseason as the genius here. Or at least this NLCS. It’s fun to wonder about his decisions (Jeffress left in all alone again?), but he’s the one who led this team to the playoffs. Time will tell, and soon. This has been fun to watch so far.
Counsell left Miley in for 5 2/3. It’s Gonzalez he doesn’t trust to go long. The plan all along was to let him go through the order once.
Now he can do the same today with the Gonzalez/Woodruff combo, if he chooses. Hader only threw 8 pitches, so he’ll be available for two innings if his pitch count doesn’t get too high. If it all works, he’s one win away from the WS.
Man, that guy is doing real harm to his free agency.
HD has made watching baseball a little strange. When the ball popped in and out of Grandal’s mitt last night, you could clearly see an enraged, older woman snarling at him. She looked really mad, lol. Turns out it was Mary Hart, the host of Entertainment Tonight once upon a time.