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is it me, or do our young pitchers do a horrible job with 0-2 pitches - i know you dont want to throw a strike, but big league hitters wont chase something two feet out of the strike zone...

Our guys lack a good out pitch. They all have a good out pitch, but none of them have control of it.

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That...really makes no sense. None whatsoever.

Sure it does. If our bats get going, I would say the law of averages indeed exists since no MLB team should have 6 players hitting at or below .200.

If the hitting continues to be this bad, then we can throw the law of averages out of the window.

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