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I am very admittedly old school, so the xBA, exit velocities, barrels, and all of those other stats make my eyes water. I really only care about actual base hits and actual success rather than predictors of success. The 2014 Royals spent the entire ALCS dinking and dunking us to death, making productive outs, and running all over us. It started with that broken bat bloop Alex Gordon double that somehow cleared the bases and then they spent the rest of that series mosquito biting us to death. So in this past week when Rafaela for Boston and Torkelson for Detroit were able to poke run scoring singles to the right side with what had to be really low exit velocities to drive in runs with 2 outs, it made me think.....why can't we do this? What is so bad about a bloop single, or a bunt with the third baseman a mile back, or hitting balls where they are pitched without trying to square up or hammer every pitch? I am sure there is merit to trying to hit the ball really hard all the time. But it doesn't seem to work that well for us since if we don't homer, we have real trouble scoring runs. Maybe we should just watch Arizona and try to do what they do. They seem to have no problem scoring runs. -
Just a terrible approach to hitting for 3 months. Will be very frustrating when the only change the team makes is to settle on just one hitting coach so they don’t get too many messages. -
By birds future is BRIGHT · Posted
They continue to fail the eye test. Hitting with RISP has been horrid. Guys with 4.60 ERAs look like Cy Young against the Os. -
They threw through and the 2B didn’t handle the throw cleanly. -
Interesting but It doesn't make me feel any better. It's like saying hospitalization was because of a fluke accident rather than a serious illness. Still need intensive care. -
Honestly, data shmata.... The good old fashion eye test --- their lack of timely hitting and what looks to me to be a team that's pressing and expecting to lose is all you need to know. -
By Sports Guy · Posted
Of course. You don’t need data to know this although the data just supports the obvious. This has been an issue a lot this year, whether it be for individual players or the team. When you are struggling this bad, bad luck is always involved. Just as when you are tearing things up, good luck is always involved.
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