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Post by scrappyunderdog on Jun 17, 2021 13:17:13 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 4h So, this is baseball with non-sticky baseballs?
In a two-game sweep by the Sox, the teams combined for 36 runs on 49 hits — 27 for extra bases — over 7 hours and 42 minutes. Not really. With Richards, yes, it is a sticky issue. But with ERod, he's been pitching this way all season. Offense is up, but not to the level of the last two RS games.
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Jun 17, 2021 13:18:38 GMT -5
Lou Merloni @loumerloni · 9m All week long I’ve defended this staff when it comes to spin rate and how their rates haven’t changed much in the last 2 weeks. Until last night. Richards FB -233, his Slider -250. IMO, that ain’t Bullfrog and Rosen. He didn’t even attempt to throw a CB. Now we’ll see who he is. Just Lou being Lou. Some guys are going to get busted big time, and some won't be affected at all. We just have to hope that less of our guys are getting caught up.
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Post by Kimmi on Jun 17, 2021 16:57:46 GMT -5
Has he? Has Verdugo really come that far? Or are the writers simply starting to recognize the talent? He's gotten better, but he has always been good to very good. And I miss the writers writing about Graterol every day, and how he would fit perfectly. And yes, Jon, I am beating a dead horse, but that's the only way dead horses learn a lesson. I am with you 100% Joe.
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Post by Kimmi on Jun 17, 2021 16:59:24 GMT -5
Keep winning ugly. Good time for a day off, but still important to note that we've won 10-16 this month, in a fairly tough stretch of games. A win is a win. I'd rather not give up 8 runs a game, but if we can score 10, then so be it.
Christian Freakin' Arroyo.
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Post by Kimmi on Jun 17, 2021 17:02:38 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 4h Awful base-running by Acuna there. Brutal. Thank you Acuna.
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Post by Kimmi on Jun 17, 2021 17:07:58 GMT -5
Lou Merloni @loumerloni · 9m All week long I’ve defended this staff when it comes to spin rate and how their rates haven’t changed much in the last 2 weeks. Until last night. Richards FB -233, his Slider -250. IMO, that ain’t Bullfrog and Rosen. He didn’t even attempt to throw a CB. Now we’ll see who he is. I don't think we can really defend Richards any more. He pretty much admitted he was using sticky stuff.
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Post by Kimmi on Jun 17, 2021 17:11:02 GMT -5
That was about as bad as it gets. How is it that ML players don't know that. My teammates would've killed me for making that mistake. He's a young player trying too hard to make something happen. He still should know better, but I can understand what his mindset was.
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Jun 17, 2021 18:23:40 GMT -5
Lou Merloni @loumerloni · 9m All week long I’ve defended this staff when it comes to spin rate and how their rates haven’t changed much in the last 2 weeks. Until last night. Richards FB -233, his Slider -250. IMO, that ain’t Bullfrog and Rosen. He didn’t even attempt to throw a CB. Now we’ll see who he is. I don't think we can really defend Richards any more. He pretty much admitted he was using sticky stuff.I'm not thinking in terms of blame or anything else. If a lot of pitchers were using it, and the league didn't do anything, it is the eternal conundrum of you either do something which is against the rules, or you allow the other pitchers to obtain an edge on you. That said, I'm not overly sympathetic to the argument that we should allow them to cheat the rest of the year. Now you have to play by the same rules as everyone else.
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