@HoodieAlonso Surely he isnt helping one of the most injured pitching staffs in the league also be one of the best in baseball
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Diddy Butler Stan ⛄️
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@arg82901 @mike5_5_5 Like crushing 2 pitchers who should be in korea cannot be the best we can come up with lol
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@mike5_5_5 @arg82901 Richest team ever and this is the best yall can gloat about come on man
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@under2catching @knucklehead32 You're just parroting the same "back in my day" boomer slop jeff frye pushes all day long because the game changed and none of you care to change with it. The game has never been more difficult for both pitchers and hitters but all you people do is insult them
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@AcunaPlusButler @knucklehead32 Honestly these takes are ridiculous. Difference in 20 years is pitchers became throwers and hitters became swingers
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Here's your debate for the morning.... im guessing Randy Johnson was well over 100mph if he was measured at release too
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@under2catching @knucklehead32 You confuse "players have no approach" with "teams and players realized giving outs up is not a good way to play baseball and making contact for the sake of making contact leads to less runs"
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@under2catching @knucklehead32 Hitters have lower averages because pitching is the best its ever been. Its pretty cut and dry
"They have no approach other than swing hard and lift" this is just literally not true at all. Players still shorten up and try and put the ball in play with 2 strikes
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@under2catching @knucklehead32 Everything i said is verifiably true but sure
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@AcunaPlusButler @knucklehead32 So are so wrong on that its not even a little funny
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@AcunaPlusButler He’s got an OPS that starts with a 5
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People still try telling me Myles Straw is a good player for some reason
Thomas Nestico@TJStats
WAR Leaders by Team — Utility
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@KevinVT90 @IMukima @FoolishBB @AndThatsBB Nah the really crazy part is it doesnt even look like hes going full throttle most of the time. He still has those pissed off moments like thursday vs the padres after dubon let that ball fall in and he walked a run in he threw with so much intensity it looked like he wanted
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I think one of the biggest differences nowadays is how most pitchers are sitting near their max velo.
Randy Johnson touched 96.6 mph with a fastball on 4-25-2008 (at age-44). He also threw a fastball 88.6 mph in that same game.
Mike Petriello@mike_petriello
One of the fun things about some 80s/90s star pitchers throwing so long is that we do actually have data from start of pitch tracking era in 2008, so on the same scale as Statcast. 2008 fastball velo. Obv they were in their 40s here, so not at peak. #results" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_searc…
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@under2catching @knucklehead32 Nobody hits .300 anymore because the AVERAGE fastball is 95 MPH, hitters see more pitchers than ever before and defenses are positioned incredibly well
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@under2catching @knucklehead32 Pitchers throwing 130 pitches every game and facing the order 4 times when we know for a fact pitchers are much worse facing them 3+ times
Hitters have lower batting averages because we are smarter now and understand batting average doesnt matter that much and slugging wins games
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@under2catching @knucklehead32 Pitchers throw harder with nastier stuff but also still locate and sequence lol. This narrative you people push that they just go out and throw it down the middle just tells everyone you dont watch the game or think Greg Maddux level command was the norm 30 years ago
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@AcunaPlusButler @knucklehead32 So what is the reality of modern baseball
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@under2catching @knucklehead32 This isnt the reality of modern baseball no matter how many times you guys parrot this
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@AcunaPlusButler @knucklehead32 Pitchers today arent throwing at hitters or near the inside part of the plate. They throw as hard as they can right down the middle then get pulled after 4 or 5 innings because they max out on every pitch.
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@varshos_glove Oh i was going to say mean things since his mom didnt pass like freddies but thats actually fair enough lmao
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@AcunaPlusButler I don’t think so I think he just represents Canada so he can play lol
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@varshos_glove Did his mom pass like fredwards did
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@AcunaPlusButler Born in the States but represents Canada at the WBC I think his mom is Canadian like Freddie
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@TalksToPeople We be saying anyone is the Cy frontrunner
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This is not our year and that's ok. Cam Schlittler is the Cy Young frontrunner and Ben Rice is firmly in the MVP race so we can enjoy that
Bryan Hoch ⚾️@BryanHoch
Grade 2 strain for Cody Bellinger. 4-6 weeks, per Aaron Boone.
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