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[The Nemesis]

Go f*** yourself, ump. That's embarrassing.

 

[The Nemesis]

You know it's bad when you don't even need the k-zone overlay to know that these pitches are well off the plate.

 

[Da Cool Rula]

But if they do that then how are umpires supposed to extract petty revenge for imagined slights by players and managers?

Lol

Kikuchi needs to pitch the to any Jay planning on being in the HR Derby

Hahaha good one

Yeah part of me blames Shatkins, but part of me blames Schneider now too, since he didn't want him going down to the minors even though Kikuchi wanted to.

While they need him to eat some innings I think now he shouldve gone to minors. Who knows may have built up his confidence

 

[Da Cool Rula]

27% strikeout rate isn't that bad. I mean yeah it's bad but it's not like he's out there whiffing like crazy and having nothing to show for it. He is what he appears to be: a loud power bat that gets on base because he also takes a ton of walks and is more than playable at 3rd even before you get into the fact that he is a super-elite defender.

As for contact, yeah he doesn't make a ton but if we look at raw contact % (as in all instances of striking a ball that is swung at, regardless of outcome) he's not even the worst guy on the team. He ranks higher than Teoscar and Springer.

Interesting thx for this post

 

[ER89]

when was kik's last scoreless inning? good god hes been complete ass - feel bad for the fans and for him

 

[DFF]

Get rid of Kikuchi before more damage is done

 

[justashadowof]

MLB inching slowly towards blernsball.

I love speeding up the game. There was never a reason the game couldn't be played faster. It's too bad that it requires a complex rules system instead of the elegantly simple rules baseball has traditionally had.

The shift rule will be very interesting to see over the decades. Look for the next generations of sluggers all being dead pull hitters. Many hard-contact hitters over the years have been defensed into mediocrity.

 

[Da Cool Rula]

I know speeding up the game is important for some. Especially in our times. But baseball is soooo different. You go to a game with friends and it ends up being one big picnic. Chatting half the game. And the players have their own personality. Who can forget the human rain delay. I think that's what makes it unique.
Just my opinion though. And im ofcourse old skool.

 

[Cloned]

Between the strike zone and the players left on base against a pitcher having a good season but an average game, this is extremely frustrating to watch.

 

[The Nemesis]

when was kik's last scoreless inning? good god hes been complete ass - feel bad for the fans and for him

August 28 he faced 1 batter and got him out. But if we want to actually hold him to having to finish a whole inning, it'd be 10 days earlier. On August 18 in New York he faced 5 Yankee batters and gave up 1 hit, 1 run, struck out 2 and allowed no runs.

 

[TMLeafer]

Lol that dude with the sign??

"I'm missing a ball, toss me 1"

 

[Cloned]

Everyone reminds Tabler of Devon White lol

 

[canucksfan]

Good news is the Rays will be using a lot of their bullpen again.

 

[Cloned]

Good news is the Rays will be using a lot of their bullpen again.

It’s the Rays. They’ll just option down a bunch of guys who pitched today and call up a bunch of pitchers no one has ever heard of. And they’ll all throw shutout innings.

So now the ump decides to start narrowing his strike zone, lol.

 

[TMLeafer]

I'd say these umps are a much more critical problem in baseball than the shift or pitch clock.

 

[canucksfan]

I'd say these umps are a much more critical problem in baseball than the shift or pitch clock.

Easy fix too

 

[Da Cool Rula]

I agree TML. MLB always bandaging things.

Easy fix too

The thing is I hate losing human judgment but these umpires just got too big head/ego. If they softened up i think things would be alot nicer

 

[Canada4Gold]

I hate these Rangers jerseys. I'm multitasking and they look close enough to the Jays baby blues that I keep mis-interpreting which team is which

 

[ChuckNorris4Cup]

I want that Bubba Thompson on the Jays, he's a legit threat.

 

[Da Cool Rula]

I hate these Rangers jerseys. I'm multitasking and they look close enough to the Jays baby blues that I keep mis-interpreting which team is which

Lol my feelings too. Hahaha

 

[TMLeafer]

I agree TML. MLB always bandaging things.


The thing is I hate losing human judgment but these umpires just got too big head/ego. If they softened up i think things would be alot nicer

How about robot umps with randomized decisions for borderline pitches. then we can complain about sabotaged software.

 

[canucksfan]

Going to suck having Merrifield on the team next year

 

[ChuckNorris4Cup]

Come on Vladdy hit a bomb

Ok Bo hit a bomb

 

[canucksfan]

this ump is dog shit

 

[The Nemesis]

Interesting thx for this post

Just to add to that post, I plugged in the numbers for all Jays hitters with 250+ Plate Appearances (11 guys: Bo, Vlad, Teoscar, Kirk, Jansen, Hernandez, Springer, Biggio, Espinal, Chapman, Tapia) and compared to the MLB-wide average at that same >250 PA threshold.

Dead center is the league average swing rate (your average MLB batter swings at 48% of pitches thrown) and contact rate (the average MLBer gets the bat on just over 77% of balls swung at, including all balls in play, HRs, and foul balls) and shows how far above or below the average each hitter is. The further right the more aggressively the hitter swings at stuff, the further up the more frequently he gets his bat on the ball.

It doesn't tell the whole story because outcomes paint guys in a much different light (Chapman alone in the bottom left is offset by his ability to draw walks. Teoscar sits at the bottom but when he does make contact he tends to put the ball in play a lot. Espinal is up in the Kirk quadrant, but his increased aggressiveness manifests as a lot fewer walks and more balls in play. And while Tapia is more aggressive and makes more contact than Bichette, he doesn't put nearly as many balls in play and tends to get himself out a lot more often when he does. But if nothing else it shows what they're doing at the plate.