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He's throwing high and in to all the LHB, maybe they need to back out half a step and force him out of his pattern.

Baddoo can't K there....

Cease pitching to Tork's strength

no arg that the key for him is to flatten it out. It's odd but you do get guys who go their whole career always hitting either the top half or the bottom half of the ball and never adjusting. Alex Avila falls in that class. But the fact that Meadows didn't always hit that way is certainly in his favor. Getting back to something you once did *should* be easier than doing something you'd never mastered. Of course baseball is weird that way - look at the counter example of Dontrelle Willis. Never could regain the mechanics that made him successful once he lost them. I suppose injury or even growing into your final adult body can play a part in that as well.

he could just get his picture painted and hang it on his wall....

Last point on the broadcasts is that I think on television, if you can get two ex-players, one doing PBP, you have an advantage over one broadcast pro and one player because the two players will talk back and forth about the game in ways a player and broadcaster can't. I noticed that listening to Cone and Flarhety for the Yankees and of course it was true for George and Al, and even Hawk and Steve Stone. Of course good ex-player PBP guys don't exactly grow on trees.....

that would be a reason!

yup, although I didn't realize Lance Lynn would be back - I thought for some reason he was done for the year.

definitely 'exceptional'. And so careful not to inject politics into the court.

don't know why they missed him in the paperwork but as per last night's box he started at 2b for the flying tigs, went 1/3 with a walk.

I also think this is true. Shep knows a lot of baseball is fine for the PBP, but he is so deferential to the ex player and spends so much time and obvious effort trying set them up instead of just conversing with them that it tends to ruin the broadcast. I'm assuming as he spends more time with Morris/Petry/Gibson that deference should naturally start to fall away and the broadcast improve --- I hope. That said, I've never been that big a fan of Gibson or Morris. Not so much because of their polish as broadcasters, but because their content added doesn't do much for me. Heck Kaline never did develop much polish as a broadcaster but he was still part of a great broadcast. Petry is a problem the other way, I like his commentary but he's just hard to listen to. Craig Monroe has improved by miles and miles since he started, IDK - he might yet get to good. Other than that they should be looking for new talent....

The radio broadcast is always available on MLB and the gameday radio subscription is only something around $25 for the year. If you take the audio on the stream, you can adjust it's time delay there, since usually it's still way ahead of steamed video. I can usually get it pretty close that way, though still not ideal.

Not specific to Meadows, but in general, aren't those two things linked by the physics? Energy transfer to the ball is the is the sum of momentum of the bat + ball times the cosine of the angle between the swing plane and the inclination of the pitch. As the flight of the batted ball diverges away from the input path of the pitch, the energy available to the flight of the ball goes down. TL, DR version. physics says you shouldn't be able to hit a pop up as hard as line drive.

except that the newer version of 'recording' something in the cloud DVR usually is that they only mark an access right on their server for you for 'x' days, so it's temporary and you never own it. Nothing is actually recorded, you get is is an on permission and link to an item in their library, for as long at that library is there or they will honor the link. For instance for DirectTV that is now 90 days. That also means if you change services your library is gone. Of course that part has always been true on a service like Amazon Prime, even if it's a viewing you paid for. Now I suppose back in the day when I had a comcast box with a harddrive in it, my library was gone if I changed services also because the box went back, but with a very little initiative I could take the HD out of the box, hang if off my computer and record off 'my' programming, then put it back together before I turned in the cable box. In either case if you want something for a permanent home library you still have to DVR it to your own external recorder, for which you may need an de-encrypting HDMI splitter, etc. They're trying to insure that nothing is simple....

So apparently contract talks between Aaron Judge and the Yankees have broken down, which led Brian Cashman to do the 'Dombrowski vs Scherzer' thing and publicly lay out the terms of the contract they offered that Judge refused. Have to think this is likely to end the same with the Yanks as it did with the Tigers and Scherzer.

The most in depth analysis I saw on Meadows was that his FB rate had gone up past optimum and his BaBIP was dropping on too many pop flies, but I didn't make any effort to check the claim independently.

And I don't know what the wind was doing at that moment, but it had been blowing in hard from RF, so that was a pretty good shot.

Grossman, Candy, Meadows - we've some guys who work pitchers hard. Tork probably also once he gets his feet under him. We're starting to be hard team to pitch against.

Regardless of the outcome, letting Hendricks go +30 pitches in his first day back in the cold is really a pretty stupid move by LaRussa. If they lose him they are probably toast for the division.

electronic zone can't get here soon enough

Good play by Baddoo. Easier inning for Eduardo. Jack White should have dyed his hair orange - not blue.....

Rodriguez looking better in the third but he has to be close to his pitch limit.

I love watching Schoop. He can miss a pitch by a mile and look like he'll never get another hit, then stroke a double.

THAT was a nice change-up. 😠

It's cold for both teams... I don't know if you try to get Rodriguez through the 3rd. He's at 60 pitches and the FB is at 89.....