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Post by unionstation82 on Aug 10, 2021 15:26:14 GMT -6
Yordan is like Reggie Jackson. He can hit them as far as him but also strike out as much. What is his SO rate, and what is the average SO rate? I’d have to look it up. I just remember his rookie year where he just stopped making contact. Sometimes, pitchers will just throw stuff in the dirt to get him out. |
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Post by ɮօʀȶǟʐ on Aug 10, 2021 16:14:52 GMT -6
What is his SO rate, and what is the average SO rate? I’d have to look it up. I just remember his rookie year where he just stopped making contact. Sometimes, pitchers will just throw stuff in the dirt to get him out. You mean the year when he was Rookie of the Year? That rookie year wasn't good enough for you? |
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Post by blcoach8 on Aug 10, 2021 16:17:02 GMT -6
I don't remember Yordan striking out as much when he was a rookie as he is now. At times he has the Correa Syndrome......taking pitches he should hit and then going after pitches that are way too high or too low.
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Post by ɮօʀȶǟʐ on Aug 10, 2021 16:54:54 GMT -6
He is right at the league average in SO %
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Post by talshill on Aug 10, 2021 17:47:58 GMT -6
The hardest thing in sports to do consistently is hitting a baseball. Those guys who are successful 30% of the time for long enough wind up in the hall of fame. Those who are successful 25% of the time wind up in the hall of decent. The main difference between those guys is one extra hit per week.
The pitcher has almost all the advantages. He can throw the ball in different quadrants at varying speeds (some upwards of 100 MPH) with tremendous spin rates. Plus he has eight other guys behind him in case the poor sap of a hitter actually makes decent contact. On top of that human reflexes, spatial orientation and mindset differ from day to day; maybe the guy's wife is cheating on him or his mother is terminally ill and he finds it difficult to concentrate on baseball that day. It happens.
If the hitter starts his swing early (because he'll have to in order catch up to 100 MPH heat), guesses right, strikes the ball at the proper launch angle and hits it far enough and with enough backspin for a HR he's a hero. If he's wrong on the pitch and misses it or is off on his launch angle by three degrees and pops up, he's a bum. Then a bunch of guys like myself who didn't have the capability of batting .050 in the major leagues get to sit behind a keyboard and either criticize a much superior athlete or, having become baseball experts with the skills we learned from pee wee ball through little league and sometimes even high school (!) baseball, get to offer opinions on why he sucks.
Good old baseball and its forums. A breeding ground for the misinformed and the uninformed. But it's entertaining to read.
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Post by unionstation82 on Aug 10, 2021 18:52:19 GMT -6
I’d have to look it up. I just remember his rookie year where he just stopped making contact. Sometimes, pitchers will just throw stuff in the dirt to get him out. You mean the year when he was Rookie of the Year? That rookie year wasn't good enough for you? He was great for a rookie. Just saying he tends to get fooled by the dirt pitches. |
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