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Honestly, with the way that the Braves run bases, I wouldn't want them to steal. I don't know about any of the other teams, but the Braves may be one of the dumbest base-running teams in the bigs. There's been a multitude of base-running errors. I hope that's over with now that they're actually playing good baseball, but it's probably not.

But yeah, Schafer has the potential to be one of the main base-stealers on the team. Too bad he's hit the rookie wall just a month into his career. :P

 

 

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Cujo

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And allow me to bring Ryan Zimmerman's hit streak into the conversation. Now at 30 games and counting...

I think you've jinxed him....

I know it's too late, but:

Rule #20-A in the Hitter's Club: Don't talk about the streak.

Edit: Thanks a lot Curty :P

My bad. :D

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Ryan Zimmerman made it to 30 games, only 54 percent of the way toward equaling DiMaggio, yet the streak was a big deal.

Yet, if a guy hits 39 home runs, 54 percent of 73, nobody would even think about saying he made a run at Barry Bonds' record.

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Ryan Zimmerman made it to 30 games, only 54 percent of the way toward equaling DiMaggio, yet the streak was a big deal.

Yet, if a guy hits 39 home runs, 54 percent of 73, nobody would even think about saying he made a run at Barry Bonds' record.

That's because people are hitting 39+ homers all the time. Can you tell me who the last guy was to have a 30 game hitting streak before Zimmerman?

 
 
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And allow me to bring Ryan Zimmerman's hit streak into the conversation. Now at 30 games and counting...

I think you've jinxed him....

I know it's too late, but:

Rule #20-A in the Hitter's Club: Don't talk about the streak.

Edit: Thanks a lot Curty :P

My bad. :D

I was right... :lol:

I saw, I came, I left.

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Ryan Zimmerman made it to 30 games, only 54 percent of the way toward equaling DiMaggio, yet the streak was a big deal.

Yet, if a guy hits 39 home runs, 54 percent of 73, nobody would even think about saying he made a run at Barry Bonds' record.

That's because people are hitting 39+ homers all the time. Can you tell me who the last guy was to have a 30 game hitting streak before Zimmerman?

Its probably partly what jayjackson said, but its also I think that its also the nature of the two records. You can get to 39 home runs without ever threatening the record. In effect it isn't 54% of the way. That being said, think back to the home run chase between McGwire and Sosa a while back, and both players were having a fuss made about there efforts from early on, when it appeared that they were on pace to beat Maris's record.

If you get to 30 games, automatically you are on pace for the record. Its quite interesting seeing and reading people talk about the atmosphere that surrounded Di Maggio's streak. The excitement is there from fairly early on by the sound of it. Also bare in mind that Di Maggio's streak was in the same season that Ted Williams became the last player to average .400, and Di Maggio's streak took far more coverage than Williams' average, which only really got a lot of coverage towards the end of the season. I guess the point is that to continue your streak you have to perform every night. By deifinition to overtake Bonds' figure you can have a bad run and miss out for say 10 games in a row.

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I just realized something watching this Yankees/Marlins World Series film from 2003; Every expansion team since 1993 has made the World Series.

1997 & 2003: Florida Marlins win WS

2001: Arizona Diamondbacks win WS

2007: Colorado Rockies make it to WS

2008: Tampa Bay Rays make it to WS

5 appearances by the expansion teams, 3 wins, 2 of which over the Yankees. Expansion's been a pretty nice success for baseball.

 

 

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Ryan Zimmerman made it to 30 games, only 54 percent of the way toward equaling DiMaggio, yet the streak was a big deal.

Yet, if a guy hits 39 home runs, 54 percent of 73, nobody would even think about saying he made a run at Barry Bonds' record.

To be fair, if a guy has hit 39 home runs and is ahead of or on pace to reach 73 home runs then people would start talking about him making a run at Bonds' record. A hit streak can happen over any 56 game stretch of the season. The home run record requires a player to be hot from the front to the end of the season. Nobody's going to make a big deal of the record about a guy hitting 39 home runs in August.

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Whatever happened to David Ortiz? The dude went 0-7 today, obviously to my delight, but really, what the hell happened to Papi? He didn't have a great year last season either, did he?

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My fantasy team needs him, badly. I am in a dogfight with the New York Clippers (and anybody who's in the AA knows how bad your team has to be in order to say that :P.).

 

 

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Whatever happened to David Ortiz? The dude went 0-7 today, obviously to my delight, but really, what the hell happened to Papi? He didn't have a great year last season either, did he?

When the guys who took PEDs fall, they fall HARD!

On January 16, 2013 at 3:49 PM, NJTank said:

Btw this is old hat for Notre Dame. Knits Rockne made up George Tip's death bed speech.

 

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Whatever happened to David Ortiz? The dude went 0-7 today, obviously to my delight, but really, what the hell happened to Papi? He didn't have a great year last season either, did he?

When the guys who took PEDs fall, they fall HARD!

That was my assumption, but I wasn't sure if he'd been actually found of using PEDs. Oh well, hopefully the rest of the Sox follow suit.

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You want to know what is going on with Papi? implosion. That's essentially it.

Starting at the pitch level, we begin by seeing a completely mind-boggling stat. After only swinging at about 18.5% max from 2004-07, last year Ortiz swung at 20.6% of pitches outside the strike zone. This year? He swings at 25.1% of all pitches thrown to him out of the strike zone, and around 7% more than his career average. Insane! He has also set a career high for contact % at pitches swung at outside the strike zone. You might think this is a good thing, and obviously you don't want to swing and miss, but balls out of the strike zone are far less likely to be well hit balls. (As with the swinging, this trend started last year) He makes contact with 59.5% of these pitches, which as I said is most likely bad for him. This will become more apparent as we move to pitches within the zone. So far we know that 14.9% of all "balls" thrown to him are put into play. That compared to a career average of just 8.7%. (Interestingly, however, lower than the MLB average of 15.3%). Anyway, pitchers are picking up on this and throwing him 55% pitches out of the zone, way more than both his career average and the MLB average.

On the more central part of the plate is where it gets uglier. He is swinging at 74.6% of all strike zone pitches, actually not too much higher than his career average but almost 4 points higher than his average when he was hitting 50 homers a year. And this is the weird part: while he is making contact with outside the zone pitches about 6 percentage points higher than previously, he is swinging and missing at strikes 2.5 percentage points more than before, and he has increased his overall Swing percentage by a whopping 4.5%. It is two different worlds for him, and both are moving in the wrong direction. These phenomena have combined to raise his first-pitch-strike % from 50.3% to 58.2%. Incredible.

I mentioned earlier that balls out of the strike zone are less likely to be well-hit, and it shows. He is actually hitting marginally more Line Drives than before, but this year 52% of his balls hit in play are fly balls. 52%!!! Compared to a career average of 45%. And to add insult to injury, 16.7% of his fly balls are infield flies! this is nearly double a healthy limit. This by default means he is hitting far fewer grounders, going down from 36.5% to 27%. So while his BABIP hasn't actually fallen off the face of the earth (.270), it has come close, and the worst part is, it is clear this is a direct result of pitch-level results and probably involves very minimal luck.

Oh, and he has even managed to increase his strikeout % by 4.3, all the way up to 23%.

Goodbye, David.

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Dear New York Yankees,

Hit with Runners in scoring position.

Sincerely, Fans.

Dear New York Yankees,

Just keep doing what you're doing.

Sincerely, the rest of baseball.

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