southsideirish71

Well someone and his gut thinks there is no correlation. Now he doesn't have data per say. But who uses that.

Tall and fall and lots of cutters will fix this.

KW and Hahn were sure that the friends and family plan was landing machado. Meanwhile the twins picked up something better than both Jay and Alonzo.

Great pitch call and execution there. Nothing like a rolling breaking pitch over the heart of the plate. This playing baseball by the gut thing is amazing.

I am sure JR's secretary prints out his emails and reads them to him.

I don't know what the fascination is with ex-players automatically becoming coaches based on their playing career. Robin Ventura was an absolute beast of a player. Slick glove, great approach at the plate. How exactly did that work out as a manager. Its a twist of your fandom for the player clouding your judgement. If any of these guys wants a job then work your way through the minors learning the craft.

Bill Walton is El Rockin

No HS or college or professional coach would agree with your interpretation of this. Mental errors are not knowing what to do. The facts of the game. The physical execution of a play is just that. Your technique a lot of times and your approach will determine the outcome of the play. This is true especially on routine plays. This is where you need to execute the technique you honed over thousands upon thousands of reps you have had to get you into this situation. Mental errors are typically those where you don't know what is going on. You execute the play however you make a bad decision. Such as trying to throw out a unforced runner at 3rd with two outs, while a throw to first ends the inning. A pitcher not covering first base on a ball hit to the right side. And yes, two outfielders colliding because one ignores priority.

You threw out a 70% stat. Where did you get this stat. If a player comes in on a ball and the ball eats him up at the last hop and it goes off his glove. You might not give him an error, but guess what the scorekeeper will.

Cite your sources here on your stats. Reading the runner out of the box, reading the hop off the bat, deciding on the technique to get that hop on a routine play and picking the short or high bounding hop executing the catch is a repeatable mechanical thing. Most botched grounders are probably in between hops, balls that either are snakes that come up on the lip of the grass, or a ball that is bounding and stays down after transition from grass to dirt. A player not executing a technique is not a mental error. If that was the case then all mistakes are mental errors. Laziness and a lack of committing to technique is not a mental error no matter how you want to quantify it.

You pull that stat out of your ass. Most errors are on throws. Typically not on glove work.

It's a lazy physical error. His lack of commitment to technique is going to continue to show up until he commits to the craft.

No one in or around baseball call errors like these mental errors.

No mental errors are not knowing where to go with the ball, how many outs there are, what base to cover.

Timmy makes errors on the more simple plays. He needs to work on not taking plays off and fundamentals.

That error was pure laziness and technique. It's a forehand push through on the run. You get the mitt down. His mitt wasn't down far enough.

He commits errors that would get HS Shortstops reamed for making. That's a snake on the ground right at him. That's an out from 12u up.

That is a terrible play on an easy ground ball.

Actually no It isn't.

Maybe because that Aaron Rowand-esque OPS wasn't getting other teams to drop their pants and give up prospects that mattered.

Wait I was told that those plays wouldn't exist due to nets being evil.

What kind of contract would you offer your hero and worship target Abreu.

Grandal + Cole or Wheeler would be a great offseason. Robert will be in CF. Madrigal probably will be up at 2nd base. That leaves RF as a hole. We fill that space and I feel pretty good about the direction of where we are going. We just need to start developing the next wave of depth in the minors for two reasons. Just in case some of these first line guys fail and two as trading chits for an influx of talent we cant develop here.

Kenny's mouthpiece has been sent out with marching orders. No reason to say we are keeping him publicly unless you want better offers.