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  • shadow_operative2.0
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    I'd be willing to bet a shit-ton on this thread grew up watching Cubs & Braves at their grandparents' houses in the summers. 

  • tx 3 putt
    tx 3 putt

    dont bother him, he's about to pitch the ninth for the dodgers 

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1 hour ago, UTexasFight said:

Why did Jazz get pulled?

hammy?

looked like he tweaked his oblique on his first swing, may have aggravated it on the slide. his facial expression after coming out looked to me like he was trying to hold back/hide considerable pain.

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in LA just now:

•runner called out at 2B, marlins challenge
•first replay shows he was safe, both LA announcers agree, say, “this should be a quick review

•the review takes 3+ minutes and they still call him out, despite like 100 angles showing he was never tagged 

•dodgers announcers are flabbergasted, and openly critical of taking that long just to get it wrong 

 

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The torpedo bat was more moment than game changer

Oh, the halcyon days of opening weekend, when Yankees hitters unleashed the torpedo bat and looked as if they were about to revolutionize baseball.

With this novel-looking piece of equipment that forsook the standard shape of a bat and aimed to place more wood in the part of the bat that strikes balls most frequently, the hitters who embraced the torpedo looked like world beaters. The numbers from that opening series against Milwaukee were undeniably good.

Jazz Chisholm Jr.: .417/.500/1.167, 3 HRs, 6 RBIs in 14 PA
Austin Wells: .200/.333/.800, 2 HRs, 3 RBIs in 12 PA
Anthony Volpe: .167/.286/.667, 2 HRs, 4 RBIs in 14 PA
Cody Bellinger: .400/.357/.700, 1 HR, 6 RBIs in 14 PA

Since then, those players' numbers have been:

Chisholm: .151/.279/.312, 4 HRs, 11 RBIs in 111 PA
Wells: .212/.258/.425, 3 HRs, 14 RBIs in 89 PA
Volpe: .242/.327/.434, 3 HRs, 15 RBIs in 113 PA
Bellinger: .184/.273/.322, 2 HRs, 10 RBIs in 99 PA

The torpedo bat, it turns out, doesn't erase weaknesses of hitters. It's also not fool's gold. Cal Raleigh is using it with his left-handed swing, but not his right -- and seven of his 10 homers have come from the left side, where he has an OPS nearly 300 points better than the right. Steven Kwan, who might as well be the anti-Raleigh, is also swinging a torpedo and is batting .333, seventh best in the big leagues.

Because of that opening-weekend blitz, though, the torpedoes will continue to be associated with the Yankees. And it's worth noting that Judge has continued to swing a traditional bat and not only looks like the best hitter on the planet but by a significant margin. Judge leads MLB in each of the triple-slash categories (.412/.507/.728), ranks second in RBIs (29), second in runs (28) and third in home runs (nine). He is striking out in a career-low 20.6% of his plate appearances and continues to hit the ball harder and more consistently than anyone. 

But i was told those were fake too [emoji848]

1 hour ago, thunderlounge said:

Figured Miami would have been black with white dust all over.

Just dress in the suit.

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6 minutes ago, Scraps said:

Guess what....Mike Trout is hurt again

Man, what could've been.  I say he's still a HOFer.

53 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Mets just got fucking screwed on a ball fouled off Winker's foot. So goddamn stupid shit like that can't be quickly reviewed. 

So dumb

 

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Judge ends April with 50 hits. He’s on pace for 261 hits this season. The record is Ichiro’s 262. 

10 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

Would wife Taylor McGregor. 

Her career really took off…as soon as she left the Rockies organization. 

Giants lost to the fucking Rockies tonight. I didn't get to watch it, thank God. 

12 hours ago, Derka said:

guess who’s back? back again?

 

Wait... Baez is playing center field now?  

Anthony Rendon has made $168,000,000 in his contract with the Angels so far and he has played in fewer than 250 games in his 4 years there. 

This is the worst contract in baseball history.

 

 

lulz 

6 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Safety bag 

 

 

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