Blue Jays GDT: 2023 v11 | Wed, Sept 21 | @ NYY | 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT | Berrios vs Cole

[mikeyz]

JERRY JERRY!!!

 

[MS]

Huge mistake by KC to not IBB Springer there when Horwitz has looked baffled by Greinke.

 

[canucksfan]

Annoying Buck rant

 

[Forgotusername]

How many drinks is this Buck rant worth?

 

[Discoverer]

Annoying Buck rant

I would be more open to these kinds of screeds if I thought Buck had the slightest idea what he meant when he says "analytics".

 

[The Nemesis]

Oh no, Schneider sucks now!

 

[The Nemesis]

I would be more open to these kinds of screeds if I thought Buck had the slightest idea what he meant when he says "analytics".

He has a very good idea of what he means when he says "analytics." He means "numbers I don't understand/like, which are different from the numbers I'm comfortable with."

 

[MS]

What a slide.

 

[canucksfan]

Great slide by Vladdy

 

[dredeye]

Great hustle and slide by vlad

 

[Forgotusername]

Wow with the way the home plate has been calling the game I am shocked he got that Vladdy safe call right.

 

[dredeye]

I thought you weren’t allowed to try and pick off twice without the base being awarded on the 2nd one

Well that answers that lol it’s 3

 

[The Nemesis]

lololol Grienke.

 

[The Nemesis]

I thought you weren’t allowed to try and pick off twice without the base being awarded on the 2nd one

You're allowed two pickoffs (or "disengagements" to account for stepping off and not throwing over to the base). It's on the 3rd attempt that you have to succeed or it's a balk.

 

[dredeye]

You're allowed two pickoffs (or "disengagements" to account for stepping off and not throwing over to the base). It's on the 3rd attempt that you have to succeed or it's a balk.

Just edited it lol. Funny it got answered right away

If your argument is to play the hot hand, you should also understand that Schneider didn't play much for a bit because after his amazing first three games he struck out 11 times in his next 21 PA. You're only the hot hand until you're not.

I remembered that after posting but I’ve been out.

 

[dredeye]

It’s a trivial moment that doesn’t truly define a game. It’s not like it was the bases loaded and the check swing directly brought in the game winning run. Those events happen all the time both for and against teams. I know for a fact it’s gone against the Jays and yet I can’t specifically reference a time when it happened. Unless we’re going to start adding plate line technology now this will continue to happen even with robots calling balls and strikes.

I get that the outcome changes a million times in a game based on bad calls. This one had a direct affect on the outcome. Without that the inning is over the team is a little more defeated blowing chances again. Instead they got a mulligan and built off of it. Even if the call was right there’s a chance they come back of course. It doesn’t change the fact it changed the whole dynamic of the game. I’m not sure why that’s such a hard concept.

I would be more open to these kinds of screeds if I thought Buck had the slightest idea what he meant when he says "analytics".

Lol. That’s great

 

[Discoverer]

He has a very good idea of what he means when he says "analytics." He means "numbers I don't understand/like, which are different from the numbers I'm comfortable with."

Ha, fair enough. I remember him going off on rants about how Adam Lind should be in the lineup every day instead of being platooned because "good hitters are good hitters". I think he understands that lefty/righty splits exist by now, but the fact that he didn't even get the most basic matchup-based concept as recently as ten years ago is telling.

 

[Da Cool Rula]

will Gauz go 8?

 

[Da Cool Rula]

Another great play by Vladdy

 

[TMLeafer]

Nice Vladdy

 

[The Nemesis]

Springer: "f*** it, I'mma do it myself."

 

[Discoverer]

Just edited it lol. Funny it got answered right away


I remembered that after posting but I’ve been out.

I find this stuff really interesting from a player development standpoint. Like... it's easy to say "Look how well he hit when he got back into the lineup... he obviously should have been in there all along!" But how much of his success is at least in part because they gave him some time off to work on things when he struggled instead of making him work through in a high-pressure situation?

I know hockey's different, but I remember going back and forth on it when the Leafs called Kadri up and he played really well and fans started the "See! He should have been up months ago!" But would he have been the same player without those months of working on things in the minors? It's probably impossible to know, but it's also not as simple as "X happened, so they should have done Y".

 

[Forgotusername]

So nice Springer did it twice.

 

[Guided by Veseys]

Holy shit! Who is banging a trash can there?

 

[Discoverer]

HR to left, clutch single up the middle, HR to right. A little of everything from Springer today!