I wish Lucas would pitch like the tall guy that he is.

Pittsburgh is an absolutely awesome park. It's location, proximity to the Ohio River, the city as a backdrop is dead set one of the finest baseball experiences I've encountered.

 

on TV it looks absolutely stunning. before my dad passed he went to a game there and raved about it as well.

He has nothing on these pitches. Plus Curve once again only a myth

Gio looks like s***.

Gio just doesn't look sharp, probably going to be another 1, 2 strikeout game

Who is talking like he isn’t physically gifted? I don’t think anyone cares if he was physically gifted or not. We just want him to strikeout less and get on base more.

Um, the guy whose post I just replied too? Maybe you haven’t followed his posts in these game threads, but he talks like Moncada is a talentless hack. The strikeouts are an issue that need to be addressed, but Moncada can still be a damn good player with a higher average K rate and Stryker doesn’t understand or believe that.

Nice defensive positioning. He's fooling no one

Nice play TA. If you switched his jersey with Shields' -- could you tell the difference?

 

If I'm being honest not much separates them stuff wise right now. Ugh.

on TV it looks absolutely stunning. before my dad passed he went to a game there and raved about it as well.

 

It is. Your dad was spot on. I've also been to Camden Yards...Pittsburgh blows it away and Camden is nice as well.

 

Another great thing about Pittsburgh is the weather can be temperate and breeze coming in over the river in the summer seems to keep it from being brutally hot, great sight lines you can get a great ticket for 15 bucks....people sit out on their boats in the river and watch the game from their boats (not the yokels in john boats trying to get the random baseball)...its an event.

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Hard to understand Giolito's dropping velocity. Have to wonder if this ends with a surgery for him.

Ok, that's fair. His wOBA is .294 but his xWOBA is .384. Better?

 

Sure. But I’m not a huge sabes guy. What does that mean and how does it negate whiffing 35% of the time? My lasting viewpoint, FWIW, is that hitting it hard doesnt mean much when you often don’t hit it at all. Not that revolutionary, but it doesn’t seem like Benetti agrees.

Sorry, kid, but wiseass remarks aren’t a great rebuttal to the fact that our cornerstone prospect in this rebuild strikes out 35% of the time. Do better.

 

Take your own advice.

lmao engel. wow.

Engel should never be playing in a game against Berrios

Engel should never be playing in a game

 

fixed it.

Um, the guy whose post I just replied too? Maybe you haven’t followed his posts in these game threads, but he talks like Moncada is a talentless hack. The strikeouts are an issue that need to be addressed, but Moncada can still be a damn good player with a higher average K rate and Stryker doesn’t understand or believe that.

 

I think I’ve used detailed hypotheticals to show that’s not the case. If he gets his Ks down, he can absolutely be a star. But if it doesn’t improve drastically, he’s not going to be the player we need him to be.

not sure. I've been to about half the parks in MLB but only safeco out of those . of the one's I've been to camden, safeco and AT&T are my favs. least favs are probably comerica and rogers centre.

 

Glad to see I wasn't the only one who hated Comerica.

Hard to understand Giolito's dropping velocity. Have to wonder if this ends with a surgery for him.

 

Was his velocity better to start last year? Don't think so

Um, the guy whose post I just replied too? Maybe you haven’t followed his posts in these game threads, but he talks like Moncada is a talentless hack. The strikeouts are an issue that need to be addressed, but Moncada can still be a damn good player with a higher average K rate and Stryker doesn’t understand or believe that.

He never said anyhing about his physical gifts or his talent. The argument is that s*** doesn’t matter if he keeps striking out

 

Sox look like a single A team against this pitcher tonight.

Another one

Yoan is fouling off too many fastballs over the plate instead of squaring up.

Yoan needs a day off or something

this sucks.

We traded Chris Sale for this guy?