It was good but it was better on Sunday night baseball. It helps to have the graphics and percentage for pitches, batters’ hot zones, etc. it was still cool but just…not as cool.
I thought it was interesting, but became numb to it by the 5th inning. Perhaps it didn't need it to be the entire game?
I really wanted a statcast explanation of the sprint speed of all of the hotdog race competitors
Well, so long as we can hit some pop ups, we can count on the White Sox to botch a few of those into runs for us.
-76 Rtot, -87 Rdrs, -35 OAA. Pick a metric, they stink.
And it’s not even just this year. Their defense has sucked for years now.
I’m afraid he’s going to give us trouble. He throws strikes and doesn’t give up many homers. He also doesn’t strike out many guys. That suggests we’ll need to put multiple hits together to make a rally. Not exactly our strong point. Hopefully, we knock him out early and put up another big inning but we might need our pitching to shut them down again.
I only watched a couple of innings. My personal feeling is that type of discussion should be done separate from the game but that’s just me. I actually think they missed a good chance when Ben brought up a “back up” breaking ball which is basically a breaking ball that doesn’t break.
Ben made the point that the hitter misses the pitch because he sees the spin, expects the ball to break, and swings where he thought the ball was going to be and it’s not there.
I think that was a great spot for the guy to say “hey the spin can’t be exactly the same or the pitch would have broken the same as his regular curve or slider. Let’s explain why a backup curve/slider doesn’t break”.
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