Emory Eagle

Ok well never mind about BABIP… Kremer just doesn’t have it. Embarrassing.

Are you aware of the concept of BABIP.

Hays looks like he’s swinging a leaded bat.

Something is off with Hall. Watched his earlier starts this season too. Maybe something mechanical… I know he struggles with control but he should get more swing and miss.

Not during the playoffs he wasn’t.

Love Gunnar but the dude makes a lot of boneheaded mistakes.

Why keep throwing 4 seam FBs to that guy? No changeup? Cutter in?

Tons of hard contact.

Hope he’s not dealing with an injury or something.

This is not MLB quality pitching.

Wells looks terrible. Not himself right now.

It stings to lose games in the late innings. In particular when unusual events or silly mistakes happen in the lead up to the critical moment. I can understand why Red Sox fans are frustrated. And I hope their misery continues for another decade. Only thing better would be for it to happen to the Skanks.

I saw this thread title and I thought it was going to be a complaint thread about watching Cole Irvin pitch.

Need to be looking out for that splitter. Let the ball travel.

Not sure Ramon could make contact if the ball was on a tee right now. He is ice cold.

Royals playing over their heads and with a horseshoe up their a$$ like it’s 2014.

If this is Tate’s velo post injury I don’t see how he can be a high leverage guy

The CC jerseys grew on me over the course of the year. I think maybe just changing the white font to orange or doing something else a bit more interesting with the font and they’d be just fine.

A successful litigator, by most accounts a decent human being, and, unfortunately, a poor steward of an MLB franchise. God rest his soul.

Well that’s a huge disappointment.

Yeah I like the deal overall, just think there is a clear need for quality relief innings now and not entirely sure how they are covered if not from outside the org.

I think Hall is a bit underrated. He would be a valuable contributor and provide many quality innings in ‘24. They will need to add a reliever.

Agree on all fronts, although when you tick through movement data on baseball savant it is interesting how varied the movement profiles are for 4SFBs and 2SFBs across the league. Bradish added a 2-seam FB towards the end of the season to great effect, so hopefully GRod will experience similar success. It seemed to me (purely anecdotally) that he began to have success when he was able to locate his FB consistently at the bottom of the zone, and pitching up with it only selectively in strikeout counts. Earlier in the season it seemed like every FB was up, intentionally or not.

Watch some highlights from last year, his 4-seam has a bit of a tail off to the right occasionally. Maybe exaggerated by the center field camera angle in Camden Yards. Check out the “observed movement by pitch type” graphic on his baseball savant page.

His 4-seamer occasionally had very similar movement to that you would expect of a right handed 2-seamer. Either that or he was already throwing it from time to time in-game last season.