i played 2 positions in baseball, i pitched and i caught.. while it should be easy enough to throw 4 balls low and away pichers make mistakes and in games where they have to do that 4 or 5 times its likely hes gonna put one in a hittable area or throw a wild pitch.. and it still leaves the decision to swing up to the batter.. thats all i really care about it
Giants eliminated the Padres from the race. Great going! Well, suspensions in the West due to bad behavior isn't slowing the Angels or the Dodgers. Milton and Guillen suspended, kinda peculiar. But anyways things are looking for the Angels! Glaus is defenetly back and very welcome. The A's? Well, their bullpen needs to those K's or else they will end in 2nd place. This upcoming weekend A's vs. Angels and Dodgers vs. Giants should be one to keep an eye on!
Originally posted by forumcrew
i played 2 positions in baseball, i pitched and i caught.. while it should be easy enough to throw 4 balls low and away pichers make mistakes and in games where they have to do that 4 or 5 times its likely hes gonna put one in a hittable area or throw a wild pitch.. and it still leaves the decision to swing up to the batter.. thats all i really care about it
Pitcher's make mistakes when their pitching in the strike zone as pitchers are usually trying to hit a corner or right outside the strike zone. If your pitching outside the strike zone pitchers have a lot of more leeway to hit the wrong location and pitchers if they would miss they try to throw away from the strike zone. I have seen a bunch of at bats of Bonds where he is not intentional walked, but is walked on four pitches where no pitch was even close to the strike zone. The only thing that would happen if the intentional walk rule was taken away is it would just slow down the game.
Mussina didn't pitch better, he gave up a home run, Santana didn't give up any runs period, it's not that the Yankees couldn't hit, it just shows how great Santana is. Even without his best stuff, he was able to shutout the Yankees and get the double plays he needed. Can't wait to see how much he dominates them when he is actually on top of his game. Hope the Yankee fans appreciated the defensive clinic Torii Hunter put on tonight too, that's the only time they'll ever get to watch good defense with the Yankees, and that's why the Yankees won't win this series. They have power, so what, they have no defense and no pitching, you cannot win without those two aspects. Go Twins!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 💃 💃 💃 💃 💃
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GREATEST NEWS EVER! BOB MELVIN HAS BEEN [b]FIREDsorry bout the caps im mighty excited about it though.. also congrats ichiro and goodbye edgar! [/B]
HOORAY!!!
This was a lovely surprise ending to a season that sucked rocks. When they hired Melvin, they were looking for the "anti-Piniella"--and that's just what they got. The latter half of this season I consider him to be exempt from criticism--the second half of this season, it wouldn't have mattered a bit who held the reins of this baseball juggernaut-turned trainwreck, but I COULD not believe it when he got his contact renewed this spring (was it in May--that seems right)--and for three years?!? Argh! I was angry for days. Looks like there was a loophole in the contract, eh? The awful thing is, NOW who do you give the job to? You can't just give it to Bryan Price, whom I thought deserved it last time, and really, who else would want it? They're not where they were 3 years ago--they're not even in the stratosphere of where they were 3 years ago? Who would want to manage a team that is such damaged goods?
Also congrats of course, to Ichiro, he deserves all the success he gets. Kudos to a Japanese man for being able to play our game better than we--and all the while making it look easy.
Oh, Edgar. 🙁 This has not even begun to sink in yet for me. I won't appreciate this until the season is over.
Cards looked great today--
Anaheim looked like crap--they'd batter take it up a couple of notches--