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Post by Saint on Mar 29, 2019 13:30:39 GMT -6
Hopefully we get a little more successful with our basestealing soon, haha. I'm just glad they're trying to steal. It seemed last year like they were coached out of running. Agreed. I'd rather see teams go down being aggressive rather than always waiting for a HR. |
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Post by m240 on Mar 29, 2019 15:56:48 GMT -6
And yet every run scored in our game yesterday was scored via the home run, for both teams.
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Post by unionstation82 on Mar 29, 2019 20:08:16 GMT -6
I'm just glad they're trying to steal. It seemed last year like they were coached out of running. Agreed. I'd rather see teams go down being aggressive rather than always waiting for a HR. I agree. You’ve got to keep the pressure on the opposition. Hitting a home run is not easy contrary to how the team makes it look. |
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Post by marshall on Mar 30, 2019 1:34:24 GMT -6
Agreed. I'd rather see teams go down being aggressive rather than always waiting for a HR. I agree. You’ve got to keep the pressure on the opposition. Hitting a home run is not easy contrary to how the team makes it look. I respectfully disagree. If you aren't successful at least 75% of the time, you're just wasting base-runners. We aren't close to 75%. Perhaps in the future, we'll figure it out or have the personnel to be successful. But we aren't there right now. |
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Post by unionstation82 on Mar 30, 2019 4:38:03 GMT -6
I agree. You’ve got to keep the pressure on the opposition. Hitting a home run is not easy contrary to how the team makes it look. I respectfully disagree. If you aren't successful at least 75% of the time, you're just wasting base-runners. We aren't close to 75%. Perhaps in the future, we'll figure it out or have the personnel to be successful. But we aren't there right now. Being aggressive is not just stealing bases. Hit and runs and going first to third also applies pressure. |
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Post by marshall on Mar 30, 2019 6:30:42 GMT -6
I respectfully disagree. If you aren't successful at least 75% of the time, you're just wasting base-runners. We aren't close to 75%. Perhaps in the future, we'll figure it out or have the personnel to be successful. But we aren't there right now. Being aggressive is not just stealing bases. Hit and runs and going first to third also applies pressure. True, but we aren't being successful at a rate that justifies extra outs and fewer base-runners.
For example: On the two run double by Brantley, he (or a PR) could have been on second and in a position to score on a solid single instead of making the 3rd out trying to stretch the double to third base by aggressive base-running. That wasn't a SB attempt, but that aggressiveness backfired and so far, it has backfired more often than not.
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Post by unionstation82 on Mar 30, 2019 9:26:11 GMT -6
I feel as if allowing runs immediately after scoring is an issue too.
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