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By ChosenOne21 · Posted
Yeah, you'd think someone would have tried this if there was any reason to think it would lead to more runs. I kind of want some team to try it for a couple of years and fail miserably so I can point it out every time someone thinks the answer to our troubles is to play baseball like it's 1905. I'd love to see Wee Willie Keeler try to hit an 87 MPH slider "where they ain't." -
By ChosenOne21 · Posted
So if Gunnar comes up with the bases loaded and two outs, smashes an 100 MPH line drive right at the second baseman who catches it, was that some sort of failing on Gunnar's part? Would you call that a "lack of timely hitting?" The "data schmata" shows that the Orioles had a lot of well struck balls that turned into outs, much more than their opponents, yet somehow this is a failing on their part? Look, there's plenty not to like about the Orioles hitting of late, but how does whether or not they're "pressing" or "expecting to lose" have anything to do with batted ball data? If "pressing" is hitting the ball harder than your opponents and striking out less, sign me up for more of it. -
By TommyPickles · Posted
I think it would reignite a rivalry between the teams that could last for years. Gunnar vs. Witt The two best players under 25 in the world. -
By Moose Milligan · Posted
If slap hitting were the answer, wouldn't everyone return to approaches from 1905? -
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.
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