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Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:23 am
by mister d
Grip and wrist action. I’m guessing that’s a two seam that he gets insane action on. Much safer pitch too.
(A screwball you’re forcing to spin by rolling your hand outward, the opposite of the pull-the-shades-down on a curve. It’s harsh.)
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:25 am
by A_B
They do call it a two seamer. Also, pretty sure the screwball is not the danger people thought it was and actually protects the UCL better than "traditional" motions. I think it was Passan's The Arm that debunked that, or at least informed me of the debunkment.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:27 am
by mister d
I’m not sure how Passan can debunk given that the screwballs two most prominent throwers have died.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:30 am
by A_B
mister d wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:27 am
I’m not sure how Passan can debunk given that the screwballs two most prominent throwers have died.
That's....hard to argue.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:43 am
by mister d
Check how Hubbell died, too. 50/50 chance at a joke setup far better than Earnhardt.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 12:09 pm
by degenerasian
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 12:46 pm
by Giff
That was an all-time ump show. Worst I've seen the Astros be a part of, that's for sure.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 12:52 pm
by mister d
Theumpireisdefinitelykulpabletherehahahahahahaha
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 1:49 pm
by Ryan
Here is, if the link works, every 2-strike 2-out 9th inning swinging strike on a fastball with the go-ahead run on base in the last 3 years and you can click on each result and watch video if it exists (and every pitch from 2018-19 does).
Holy fucking shit. The moon. My god. (Long pause) We're on the fucking moon. Over.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 6:52 pm
by EdRomero
Is Kulpa the crew chief? Because the thing that would probably drive him the most crazy is if the manager completely ignored him and just argued with the crew chief or another on the crew just denying him from having an umpshow. My first memory of Kulpa was when I argued that he provoked Carl Everett.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:21 pm
by mister d
I would guess whoever came in from 3B(?) was the chief.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:39 pm
by A_B
Blue jays have been no hit thru six four times already this season.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 7:47 am
by degenerasian
A_B wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:39 pm
Blue jays have been no hit thru six four times already this season.
They are something like 1 for 67 in the first 3 innings.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 10:23 am
by A_B
Why is Chris Davis still a thing? Ofer in his last 38 dating back to last year.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 10:48 am
by sancarlos
A_B wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 10:23 am
Why is Chris Davis still a thing? Ofer in his last 38 dating back to last year.
Khris Davis is deservedly still a thing.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 11:16 am
by tennbengal
A_B wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 10:23 am
Why is Chris Davis still a thing? Ofer in his last 38 dating back to last year.
It's like an excessively cruel update on the Milgram experiment - with the Orioles being told they have to keep pushing the button, so they do, no matter how much he screams in pain.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 11:31 am
by mister d
RiverAveBlues is shutting down and this is now the worst day of my life.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 11:35 am
by sancarlos
mister d and bronto are tied for the league lead in "cryptic posts that make me go to google to see what they hell he is talking about".
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 4:00 pm
by bfj
Going back to last season, Chris Davis is 1/54 w 31k.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 4:18 pm
by Ryan
I could LITERALLY do that maybe?
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 4:19 pm
by Johnny Carwash
sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 11:35 am
mister d and bronto are tied for the league lead in "cryptic posts that make me go to google to see what they hell he is talking about".
rass is the leader by far for me.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 4:20 pm
by rass
I’d give it to one of the baseball guys.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 4:22 pm
by EnochRoot
mister d wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 11:31 am
RiverAveBlues is shutting down and this is now the worst day of my life.
He should've shut it down at the end of last season if he couldn't commit to another year. Now we've got a vacuum as a result.
ETA: especially when he's citing "the passion just isn't there anymore." He knew it wasn't there last year when he (admittedly) was dragging.
Selfish stuff, IMO.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 4:24 pm
by Ryan
rass wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 4:20 pm
I’d give it to one of the baseball guys.
Huh???
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 4:47 pm
by sancarlos
Yeah, Ryan deserves a nod, too.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 5:11 pm
by mister d
EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 4:22 pmHe should've shut it down at the end of last season if he couldn't commit to another year. Now we've got a vacuum as a result.
ETA: especially when he's citing "the passion just isn't there anymore." He knew it wasn't there last year when he (admittedly) was dragging.
Selfish stuff, IMO.
It was free.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 5:15 pm
by EnochRoot
mister d wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 5:11 pm
EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 4:22 pmHe should've shut it down at the end of last season if he couldn't commit to another year. Now we've got a vacuum as a result.
ETA: especially when he's citing "the passion just isn't there anymore." He knew it wasn't there last year when he (admittedly) was dragging.
Selfish stuff, IMO.
It was free.
Yes, but that's irrelevant to my point. I'm simply stating that by bailing on his blog now, he's leaving a void that would've been easier to fill had he left at the end of last season.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 6:25 pm
by Rex
Been a while since I spent a lot of time at RAB, but for a time it had the status of “only website I’ll visit when the Yankees are knocked out of the playoffs”, which is really a sacred status. I have to imagine it’s exhausting to cover a baseball team day in and day out, especially if you consider it important to cover the entire farm system, analytics & the business of baseball too. I wonder if they sought out a new editor and none of those fucking lazy millennials would bite.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 6:27 pm
by Rex
Man it just seems wrong to see Andrew McCutchen in a Phillies uniform. I mean that’s not supposed to happen to beloved ex-Yankees.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 6:31 pm
by EnochRoot
Rex wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 6:25 pm
Been a while since I spent a lot of time at RAB, but for a time it had the status of “only website I’ll visit when the Yankees are knocked out of the playoffs”, which is really a sacred status. I have to imagine it’s exhausting to cover a baseball team day in and day out, especially if you consider it important to cover the entire farm system, analytics & the business of baseball too. I wonder if they sought out a new editor and none of those fucking lazy millennials would bite.
I think there's likely some truth in what you're pondering. They opened up a few positions the past year and a half and were accepting applications (for what, I don't remember). That wound up morphing into guest contributions, but I think the jobs he was soliciting were of a more permanent nature.
He's working at CBS Sports Online - I'm sure he's burned out doing RAB because he's got to churn out a few thousand words a week on the job anyway..
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:27 pm
by degenerasian
The Rays are going to be 4.5 games ahead of the Red Sox. I know its early but that's going to be hard to make up since the Rays are a very good team.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:40 pm
by tennbengal
degenerasian wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:27 pm
The Rays are going to be 4.5 games ahead of the Red Sox. I know its early but that's going to be hard to make up since the Rays are a very good team.
The rays are a good team.
That’s not gonna be hard to make up because...it’s April. And somehow Boston has not played one home game yet.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:43 pm
by tennbengal
The Reds have scored 11 runs.
This season.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:45 pm
by A_B
tennbengal wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:43 pm
The Reds have scored 11 runs.
This season.
Yeah. I made fun of jays to deflect.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2019 5:18 pm
by rass
tennbengal wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:43 pm
The Reds have scored 11 runs.
This season.
They scored 5 today!
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 5:37 am
by tennbengal
rass wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2019 5:18 pm
tennbengal wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:43 pm
The Reds have scored 11 runs.
This season.
They scored 5 today!
And yet not enough. This is going super well.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 7:19 am
by EdRomero
tennbengal wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:40 pm
degenerasian wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:27 pm
The Rays are going to be 4.5 games ahead of the Red Sox. I know its early but that's going to be hard to make up since the Rays are a very good team.
The rays are a good team.
That’s not gonna be hard to make up because...it’s April. And somehow Boston has not played one home game yet.
11 game west coast road trip is a real fan friendly way to start the season (having the team be historically bad for a returning World Series Champion doesn't help either).
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 9:11 am
by tennbengal
I don’t remember that last time any team was sentenced to that kind of slog to start a year. It’s weird.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:08 am
by A_B
Probably good from a weather perspective.
Re: MLB Regular Season 2019
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 1:19 pm
by tennbengal
A_B wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:08 am
Probably good from a weather perspective.
Probably - although the twins and tigers and Cleveland etc etc didn’t get banished to that kind of road trip. Like I said, it was unusual.