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I wonder if that change is due in part to the change in the buffer zone that effectively shrunk the strike zone. Walks are up and strikeouts are down, and hitters are taking more pitches labeled as being outside the zone and making more contact when they do swing. Launch angle is also down a tick which might explain part of the drop in HR/FB percentage. If they are making the ball deader, that’s not the worst thing even from the offense’s point of view, since stolen bases and bases taken are up and it’s easier to score runs stringing together hits now than it was before the bases ballooned in size.

“Who do you work for, Bet365?!”

Can’t fault Javy there. Hope it fires up the rest of the team.

Military people are not generally the biggest supporters of the idea of democracy.

The kind of extreme left politics you’re talking about will never, ever, ever be the platform of the mainstream Democratic Party. That’s just hair on fire thinking. They will always be a fringe element that will never rise to the numbers that MAGA has.

Rosenthal probably wrote that column because he’s offended by the idea that Skenes is being wasted in Pittsburgh.

Fun fact: Maddux could have been on this list in 2000 since he had 13 strikeouts on 81 pitches, but he got yanked after seven, probably because the Braves had a 10-0 lead. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MON/MON200009230.shtml

Yes.

I’m hoping for a scratch single since we opted to not go to today’s game and drive home instead.

The unexpected aspect is MLB not being 100% anticonsumer instead of just 90%.

Sucks for me since I am driving across the state now after the kickass weekend my wife set up for me as a Xmas present. By the way, I am using this as an opportunity to relive my youth by listening to the game exclusively on broadcast radio and changing stations as I pass through cities. Right now I am going through Ann Arbor, home of WTKA 1050 AM, Washtenaw County’s news leader. Next up: Jackson.

Benetti calling the game on the radio. I wonder if Dan wanted or needed the day off. I don’t dislike Benetti, really I don’t—but I like him less now after hearing him call last night’s game neutral for the Fox national audience and sound excited when Cleveland scored on us.

Manning is not even in my consideration set anymore.

Yeah they’re on a good run and we aren’t.

That’s Randy Wolf from 2015.

Better hitter?

That was my issue with the play Jake made. I don’t think he was in the wrong spot necessarily, I think his positioning was fine. I just think he caught the ball too far in front of the play because then he had to sweep behind him to try to get the out and he was never going to catch up to the runner that way. I think he needed to let the ball travel closer the runner before catching it so he’d just put the mitt down for the out.

Wouldn’t that cede the front of the plate to the runner, since the catcher would have to reach across the plate from the back of it to tag him out?

I did!

I’m sorry do you mean the catcher standing behind the plate where the umpire is?

It might, although they run into the probability that the throw will hit the runner before it gets to the catcher.

That’s true if Kahnle hangs one.

I don’t think that run scoring was Tori’s fault for making the throw. I think Rogers tries to make the play too far in front of the plate. Although I will say it’s difficult to get a runner out at the plate from the right side of the field.

Yeah, he also gave me three or so minutes of conversation as well. Nice guy. Appropriately MLB big, which is to say, a couple inches taller than I who am 5’ 10”.

But how else can you place your prop bet in an informed manner?