Jim Cowan

Just now, Jim Cowan said:

 

Corrected to say first base coach, not third

1 minute ago, Jim Cowan said:

I know it's only spring training but when a guy gets picked off at second by such a ridiculous margin, does the first base coach not get his butt kicked up to his shoulders?

Here is how you coach first base, with a runner at second:  you yell at him YOU WATCH THE PITCHER!  I'VE GOT THE SHORTSTOP AND THE SECONDBASEMAN!

 

I know it's only spring training but when a guy gets picked off at second by such a ridiculous margin, does the third base coach not get his butt kicked up to his shoulders?

Here is how you coach third base, with a runner at second:  you yell at him YOU WATCH THE PITCHER!  I'VE GOT THE SHORTSTOP AND THE SECONDBASEMAN!

10 hours ago, casimir said:

In case you missed Ueck's birthday.

Lol!!! According to the late Norm Mcdonald nobody has a worse potty mouth than Uecker, which in my mind somehow makes him even funnier.

Malloy gets on base, he's got a chance to find a spot.  I read something a couple of days ago written by someone who didn't like his arm, which isn't a fatal flaw in LF.

11 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

This is absolutely embarrassing for Tim Scott. Complete invertebrate. 

This is the legacy that Tim Scott, at one time respected, has chosen for himself.  The Black man, grinning broadly, at Trump's KKK meeting. 

13 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

Wasn't there a case several years ago where a player filed for less than the team offered?  

Al Kaline?

If your "joke" causes someone to receive death threats, it's not a joke.

If you give in to Putin now, and concede Ukrainian territory, he will obliterate the rest of Ukraine within the next 12 years.  It will all be Russia.  So the only question that matters is, do you care?

10 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

He accused him of raping underage girls.   That goes being trading barbs.   I don't think the apology is enough.  I do think Kimmel needs to sue him.   I just threw out a billion dollars because I hate Aaron Rodgers. 

Did Rodgers apologize?  I don't think so, I can't find it anywhere, does anyone have a link?

I know who did apologize, it was Tank-Top Punter F-Head, for "his role" in the defamation.  But Rodgers?  I imagine that the first words out of his lawyers' mouths were "don't apologize".  But if anyone has a link to a Rodgers apology I would like to see it.

Even stupider than the defamatory statement is the whole idea that he would want to trade with Jimmy Kimmel.  Why would anyone do that?  Did he think that Kimmel would give him the faux-rival status of Matt Damon?  What an a-hole.

I still want there to be a difference between the 2 leagues.  Late last season I looked at the top 10 hitters in the National League, and I didn't know any of their first names.  That's how I want it, I don't want to care about the National League.

He's going to play out the Supreme Court appeals until he dies, which can't happen soon enough.

Our Lord sent Trump here to lead us.  That's all I need to know.  I don't need to read some old Jew books to know that Christ is showing us the way.

1 hour ago, Edman85 said:

All this minor league OBP gushing reminds me of this.

Which former Tigers prospect is this? Hint: he played several years in the Majors. MLB career OBP was sub .300. 

Well this guy clearly is no comparison to Malloy, 2 reasons:

(a) his OBP in 2 years in the very low minors was .370, and then .400. Malloy's is .410 at every level including AA and AAA.

(b) your guy seems to have hit 3 home runs in 1000 PA's at the very lowest levels of Milb.  Malloy hit 23 in 600 PA's at AAA.

So, I might have some doubts about Malloy, and I do, but not because of whoever this guy is.

6 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

Malloy ahead of Meadows.  Interesting.  

 

Malloy has a .410 OBP at every level of the minors.  Does that mean he could do .375 in the majors, with some power?  If so, he has to be on the team at DH, mediocre defense in left, and relatively poor defense at third.  If he does not make the team I don't want the reason to be "well the have Canha now and he's going to lead off".  Canha is a nice player, for an old guy, but I'm not sure that he adds a lot more future value than Malloy or even Baddoo.  We'll see next spring.

When I look at that aggregate photo of all the scouts I am genuinely surprised at how young they are on average.  They aren't 65, they're 45.  It's possible that only the oldest guys got fired, but is that because they were the most resistant to industry-wide changes in methodology?

This feels like out-of-court, here's $30,000 each, your scouting recommendations sucked but anyway take the money, now f off.

If I were you guys I'd be more focused on finding those tunnels, the ones that criss-cross the country.  They contain decades worth of food and fresh water.

5 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Will need to lose some of that leg kick.

My exact thought when I saw it.

If Toledo had a decent rotation in 2024, that would be light years ahead of 2023, when almost nobody here could have named even 2 starters.

Seeing BP used for "bullpen" makes me cringe.  It means "batting practice".  Period.

6 hours ago, chasfh said:

I still play and I still do it the same way I always did: clipping the left lower corner of the bag with the outside edge of my right foot on the turn. That probably cuts a foot or so off the distance versus trying to clip it with my left foot, since that way most of the body is over the bag versus my way where the none of the body is over the bag.

Try it the other way next time, none of your body is over the bag in either case.  Look at the angle of Cobb's body rounding third, his left foot touched the inside corner, just barely, and his hips and shoulders are just about to make a violent turn that is a lot sharper than the slower momentum shift from starting the turn with the right foot.  The only risk is losing your footing.

5 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I found this:

https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2106&context=ijes#:~:text=Since softball rules do not,foot is still in contact

 

yes that is it.

5 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

I suppose it might make a difference whether you know your are going to the next base or not. If you are going 1st to 3rd and you try to run that as a smooth arc at max speed, you are probably better off hitting 2nd with which ever foot keeps you on stride. If I'm going straight to 2nd, then decide or am waved to 3rd, I need to make a sharper pivot and if you go inside foot to the bag you get more leverage to make the sharper turn?

I never got any coaching about which foot to hit the bag with but I saw that Cobb photo at a very young age and from then on it was left foot at every base and it wasn't that difficult to slightly alter your stride.  It just seemed that the hockey stepover gave you a sharper turn, it shifted your momentum more quickly.

1 hour ago, oblong said:

That’s how I was taught in HS (right foot on inside corner) but later on saw Gibson in a clinic advise to do the opposite, left foot on outside corner, his reasoning being at that point it’s more of a straight line.  Seemed weird to me. 

That famous photo of Cobb rounding 3rd base shows him touching the bag with his left foot and stepping over with his right, like a hockey player.  I think he must have touched all the bases that way.

3 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Not to mention playing games like Strat O Matic and figuring batting averages and era's 

ERA was sort of next level, more difficult than batting average.