reiks12

Probably Flub fans

HAHN WON THE TRADE HOW DOES THE MADMAN DO IT?

are you kidding me, nice play

this umps garbage

i love that man

OOF thats a terrible call by the ump, lucky

there we go

2-0 on a guy 4-43

Surprise another 3-2 count

Why cant Cease get any swings and misses? Thats the third time his fastball was face high and it was still fouled off.

Everyone ready to watch Cease throw 25 pitches?

nice eye

Get ready for an epic thread everyone, its going to get ugly in here!

what the hell was Cooper doing

2 different strike zones again

that wasnt even close, what the fuck

this is last years Cease, ugh

pitch number 20 coming up, 1 out

looks like its going to be another 4 inning start for Cease..

terrible

that fell off a table, too bad it wasnt over the plate

Cease looks really good, those were good takes by the leadoff guy

The Covid bit is a hard sell for me. Yoan is doing exceptionally well against fastballs this year, I would think it would be the opposite if he was weaker no?

Thought we could use a Robert thread after the season he has been having. As of now he is absolutely locked in. I have been looking at his advanced stats and here are some interesting ones: - I always assumed Robert was going opposite field more this year but thats not the case. He has actually been pulling the ball more (42.6%) compared to last year (32.8%). -His average exit velocity is up this year (90.2 vs 87.9) which is probably due to him hitting the sweet spot more (46% vs 36%). His launch angle is down which would explain only 1 home run, but hes been an extra base hit machine! -Robert has vastly improved on hitting breaking pitches. Last year he whiffed on 46.3% of breaking balls. 2021 has him at 34.5%. SIX of his extra base hits have come against breaking balls. -A similar improvement is happening with fastballs. He cut down on his whiffs by 13%. -His contact in the zone has increased by 20%, thats remarkable and supports the above. This is nice to couple with chasing less balls out of the zone (5%) -Teams are starting to throw him more changeups and other offspeed variants and that will be his next adjustment. As of now he is whiffing around 47% of the time on offspeed pitches. -He is murdering anything thats not on a corner, and hes torching balls up and away. You don't need the advanced stats to see that he has done a great job this year, hes passing the eye test with ease. I just love it when numbers tell us what our eyes have been seeing. I hate to see his offense being wasted in the 7 spot. He needs to be moved up. I used this site to look at his stats, fun to look through: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/luis-robert-673357?stats=statcast-r-hitting-mlb

I like having Moncada hit in front of Abreu, especially if Abreu can heat up. I feel pitchers would then throw Moncada more fastballs.