Former Viva El Birdos editor, current Cardinals Twitter complainer. On the lookout for the next Gregg Jefferies.
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I wrote about the difference between Kyle-Gibson-type middle-aged-pitcher fantasies (using your wits and guile to escape certain death) and the Lance Lynn type (propping yourself against a wall and blasting through waves of your enemies until you die)
mademdashes.substack.com/p/k…
I'm glad we're doing one of these videos again because it is unequivocally true that Japan has better baseball TV content than we do
When my wife and I were there in ~2019 I saw Christian Yelich do one of these target challenges on a TV at a little restaurant, but I can't find any footage online except for this 28-second Facebook video teasing it: facebook.com/watch/?v=698387…
Important update to help all of us channel our overreaction more precisely: xitter.cf/jonmberra/status/21086…
OK I'm in
Elevated 96.8 mph heater from Tekoah Roby for strikeout #6 on the day through three innings.
He struck out the side in the 3rd.
Fun!
My feeling about tipping pitches for a long time has been "if a player is good at identifying it, that's a fun and real part of baseball," but I think we're officially too good at it. Not sure how you could actually deal with that, because you can't keep guys off Twitter, but...
Level of offseason I'm on today is "free agent class at third base is a mess, get Ivan Herrera taking a million ground balls a day immediately."
(Obviously I would love Teruaki Sato, but if you're an agent representing a power hitter from another league and you let him go play in Busch Stadium you should be arrested by the Japanese government.)
I missed this at the time, but it's a reminder of how old I am that OPS is now treated as a Real Stat by people who hate analytics. I literally discovered OPS because I wanted to argue with number-haters about Ray Lankford, go back to batting average or wear your pocket protector
I just watched three Ruben Sierra swings for no reason in particular, and I invite you to do the same. He's already swinging way harder than he safely can... if we were measuring bat speed in 1995 I think he might have broken his neck trying to max it out youtube.com/watch?v=1f9aFLLx…
A lot of people in the mid 90s said weight training was ruining baseball players's swings, and they were pretty clearly wrong about that. But having watched these again you have to consider the possibility that they were right about this one guy
Some hero has uploaded his first career triple and it's just a completely different guy. Beginning in ~1992 he was replaced by Scott Steiner, who was not given any baseball lessons beforehand youtube.com/watch?v=Sdo8hv8P…
