a midseason wbc would hopefully allow more teams to secure insurance and let more players participate
imagine seeing a usa rotation of skenes, skubal, and crochet with mason miller closing out games
fox broadcasters acting like venezuela isn’t that good of a team and the us lineup being stifled is uncharacteristic
venezuela’s bullpen has been lights out all tournament with high strikeout relievers while the usa offense is strikeout heavy
this feels like a pretty realistic outcome. a close game where strikeouts...
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the wbc needs better announcers.
you 100% would rather have the player who hits the ball 125 mph but strikes out 150 times more than a player like luis arraez
weak contact, even at a high frequency is more likely to produce less valuable expected outcomes than hard contact at lower frequencies.
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these are all the called strikes for us pitchers. home plate ump definitely expanded the lower half of the zone, especially in the late innings
miller and whitlock definitely benefited from this. but also no guarantee tatis would have gotten a hit off miller
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something i hope we see more of from the american lineup—base stealing
witt, henderson, pca, and turang all stole 20+ bags last year and boast 75+ percentile speed
austin wells has a below average pop time (1.97 second, 38th percentile) and below average arm (81 mph avg, 58/84 qualified catchers)
out slugging the...
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