Look at Ray Ray Run

Because in his two most dominant seasons he basically never threw it. He was 94-95% sinkers since it's a completely dominant pitch. 2017-18 he threw the slider 18% of the time and he wasn't nearly as good. His ratio this year is similar to 2018 instead of 2019-20 when he was dominant.

Why can't pitchers throw to first base. This has puzzled me my entire life. I remember being told in college that we practice on a mound and the ground is flat lol. Like what? Everyone plays catch on flat ground everyday guy

Sinker isn't really a whiff pitch

Still convinced that dumb slider has messed him up a bit. Looked better tonight I thought

Correct

3 ground balls from bummer there. Good to see but they found holes. Tough break

If he can't get more command consistently with that change yeah, but I think that change still has room to improve and that peak change is filthy.

I did a study on crede when I got Into statistics in college. You could argue he's the most clutch player in the history of baseball. The difference between his regular performance and his clutch performance is by far the best In baseball in the past 40 years, blew Ortiz out of the water but Ortiz was obviously much better typically. His numbers with risp, risp 2 outs, bases loaded, and lips situations is remarkable.

I'm still a matt foster Stan. Poor man Keith foulk maybe

Needs to cal up crede and ask him how it's done. Joe would be In the hof if he only came up in big spots

Gotta say, you know something negative about every player regardless of how great they are and I respect that about you lol

Vs a lefty too. Gotta start taking the balls again. 1 bb would be nice lol and we know I'm the biggest ta guy around

Lol no. That's not at all what it means. It means the guy with cerebral palsy didn't actually play in the mlb so he defers on things related to that kind of expertise to the guy that actually did... which is his job. Time to move on from this, ta7 bout to go yack ball

Again that's literally his job. Stone is the analyst, benetti is the play by play guy.

Yeah that was awful. I remember that. At least with Walton he embraced how little he knew and played into it.

This is how I see it as well. He adds his thoughts on analytics and advanced metrics steve isn't about and defers to Steve on the other side of the game.

Hes asking the opinion of his analyst which is literally his job. Stone is supposed to be the "expert" on certain areas and he flatters and defers to that expertise.

Played the game for 18 years. I've never thought benetti is clueless. Him and stone not knowing what pitchers were looking at in their hat was weird and embarrassing, but I've never thought benetti was ignorant about the game. He can be overly complimentary sometimes but that's what it is. Guess we can just agree to disagree.

Really messed up thing is if the Sox win and don't give up this lead at any point, Marshall will get the win lol

Good thing Marshall has a long leash and Dylan is on a choker.

Lol this nonsense again. Benetti probably does more homework on broadcasts, opposing team and the game than 95% of broadcasters.

Youre basically telling the kid if he ever gets in trouble he's done. Is what it is. I think we're gonna score about 8+ tonight so it wouldn't have mattered. Oh well.

They have a 3 run lead vs a terrible team that's already in their bullpen. This was a prime chance to let him work through it

The walks are bad and the whip near two isn't great but the guy had given up 3 hits. I just dont like it at all. He'll never grow as a pitcher without getting the chance to work through some jams. This rangers team is bad, and there was room to let him work through this imo

And I get he was struggling there. I just dont see how he improves if he never works through anything. Tough spot in general.