Seems like maybe this cold weather has gotten to him a bit...all his at bats on this home stand have sucked.

 

Also hate to see two, first pitch outs against a pitcher with mediocre control.

Crud.

Changeup stayed up enough for Ortiz to get to it.

Danks is just awful this year at keeping the opposition down after the Sox score. His stuff looks terrible this season and no idea why he's throwing a change-up to a lefty.

John is getting really bad about giving up runs right after the offense just gave him a lead.

Why is he throwing a change up to a lefty?

 

You almost never see that.

Looking like Papi found the fun juice again

JDINAA

 

 

And he always. Always. Always gives it right back

Why is he throwing a change up to a lefty?

 

You almost never see that.

Danks has always done that. When he actually has his good change, it can be effective because they never see it...but if he elevates it...

It's kind of amazing how Floyd, Danks and Ramirez seemed to have peaked in 2008.

Can we please start the "KW should be fired for giving Danks that big contract thread!" lol?

 

Every day, we can change to a new player. Yesterday, Viciedo. Today, we can try Alexei Ramirez or Danks if we get tired of picking on Beckham or Morel.

Danks has always done that. When he actually has his good change, it can be effective because they never see it...but if he elevates it...

 

I'd love to see stats on this, cause I don't recall him throwing a lot of change-ups to lefties at all.

It's kind of amazing how Floyd, Danks and Ramirez seemed to have peaked in 2008.

 

And Quentin, too!!!

Danks pitching crappy again.

I'd love to see stats on this, cause I don't recall him throwing a lot of change-ups to lefties at all.

I know Hawk has talked about it, but I don't know where to get stats on pitches thrown to particular hitters by split.

JDINAA

 

 

And he always. Always. Always gives it right back

MLINAA

Danks is throwing the change-up a little bit less than 1% more than last season.

 

The big thing that sticks out is his FB velocity is down a full 1.9 MPH from last year. Is it the April excuse, or something more serious?

A perfect bunt that rolls foul?

 

Roger Bossard...what happened...

A perfect bunt that rolls foul?

 

Roger Bossard...what happened...

Morel looked like a different hitter up there...

Morel just passed Beckham, 179 to 170.

 

Yet another single to RF.

 

 

Morel looked like a different hitter up there...

 

Strike 2 was a real nice swing

MLINAA

 

Dammit tell me.

Danks is throwing the change-up a little bit less than 1% more than last season.

 

The big thing that sticks out is his FB velocity is down a full 1.9 MPH from last year. Is it the April excuse, or something more serious?

Take a look at his velocity charts. He had one game that was way down this year (maybe even erroneously low), but otherwise he's not far off where he was in other years to start the year. In fact, 2010 has as clear of an "increasing as the season goes on" trend as you'll ever see.

Strike 2 was a real nice swing

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

 

Dude actually took an aggressive swing and was right on it.

Dammit tell me.

 

Clearly it means Mike Lavalliere is not an athlete