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Is This an Unprecedented Offensive Turnaround?


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QUOTE (iamshack @ May 11, 2014 -> 08:56 AM)
He's actually fallen right back into the same old habits...look at his May splits...in April he was laying off the bad pitches...but he's not anymore...

 

 

Well, it's hard to say anything conclusive yet, since he was sitting for more than half of that month (April) before Garcia went down.

 

He was at .348 and has now had a pretty bad stretch for 35 at-bats. That said, he very easily could have gone 2/4 yesterday again, as he was robbed on a great play by Owings.

 

We'll know a lot more which Viciedo he is by the All-Star break. There's no arguing that he's never been close to the walk rate he's putting up now since his last hot extended streak in the minors when Ozzie didn't want to play him over Juan Pierre.

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QUOTE (iamshack @ May 11, 2014 -> 09:56 AM)
He's actually fallen right back into the same old habits...look at his May splits...in April he was laying off the bad pitches...but he's not anymore...

I think it's too early to assume anything with him to be honest. Maybe April was just a hot stretch, maybe the first week and a half of May is just a slump. Who knows at this point.

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QUOTE (raBBit @ May 10, 2014 -> 08:12 PM)
New Flowers replacing old Flowers.

 

New Viciedo replacing old Viciedo.

 

2014 Ramirez replacing 2013 Ramirez.

 

New Gillaspie replacing old Gillaspie.

Not sure you can throw new Gillaspie in there since he had his best month in April last year but yes so far big turnarounds in the others. Vote now for them as All-Stars. Abreu too.

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 10, 2014 -> 08:32 PM)
Not just patient, but a plan of attacking each pitch.

Hitting is always about knowing your strengths and your weaknesses as well as the pitchers . You get behind in the count and the pitcher knows you chase high heat or sweeping breaking pitches down and away you should realize those pitches are coming and teach yourself to lay off them. These are the constant battles and adjustment hitters must make .

 

You know statistically you become a better hitter when ahead in the count so a lot of hitters take the 1st pitch. Other hitters swing at the 1st pitch thinking a pitcher also wants to get ahead because its to his advantage then and they're more likely to throw a meatball on that 1st pitch.

 

It's the game within the game. With men on base you're pitched one way . With bases empty you're pitched another way. A hitter has to constantly monitor the situation and know the likely strategies of how he will be pitched in all situations.

 

Hitters have to be educated on the game, certain things drilled into them. They have to anticpate like Flowers yesterday running to 3rd on a GB to his right when he was on 2nd base. Clearly he didnt tell himself stay put on a GB to my right unless it goes through the hole . You're not going to score on a single to left anyway if its between SS and 3rd base.

 

Just as there are mental errors running the bases. Imagine the miscalculations that go into every at bat. The pitcher has to think like a hitter , the hitter think like a pitcher. Where's the ball going ? What's the location? Is he going to throw me a strike or try to make me get myself out ? Fastball ? Curve , Changeup ? He has to remember tendencies by many different pitchers .

 

The best plan starts with knowing your strengths and weaknesses and the simple fact you become a better hitter ahead in the count thereby forcing the pitcher to come to you and if he doesnt you take your walk.

 

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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 11, 2014 -> 10:30 AM)
Tyler Flowers is hitting. 330, if that's not drugs it's gotta be a miracle from above.

 

Yeah those 2 homers man... dude's JACKED all the way to a .425 SLG.

 

He has a .493 BABIP. That's the miracle from above.

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QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ May 11, 2014 -> 10:54 AM)
Hitting is always about knowing your strengths and your weaknesses as well as the pitchers . You get behind in the count and the pitcher knows you chase high heat or sweeping breaking pitches down and away you should realize those pitches are coming and teach yourself to lay off them. These are the constant battles and adjustment hitters must make .

 

You know statistically you become a better hitter when ahead in the count so a lot of hitters take the 1st pitch. Other hitters swing at the 1st pitch thinking a pitcher also wants to get ahead because its to his advantage then and they're more likely to throw a meatball on that 1st pitch.

 

It's the game within the game. With men on base you're pitched one way . With bases empty you're pitched another way. A hitter has to constantly monitor the situation and know the likely strategies of how he will be pitched in all situations.

 

Hitters have to be educated on the game, certain things drilled into them. They have to anticpate like Flowers yesterday running to 3rd on a GB to his right when he was on 2nd base. Clearly he didnt tell himself stay put on a GB to my right unless it goes through the hole . You're not going to score on a single to left anyway if its between SS and 3rd base.

 

Just as there are mental errors running the bases. Imagine the miscalculations that go into every at bat. The pitcher has to think like a hitter , the hitter think like a pitcher. Where's the ball going ? What's the location? Is he going to throw me a strike or try to make me get myself out ? Fastball ? Curve , Changeup ? He has to remember tendencies by many different pitchers .

 

The best plan starts with knowing your strengths and weaknesses and the simple fact you become a better hitter ahead in the count thereby forcing the pitcher to come to you and if he doesnt you take your walk.

 

Awesome post man, and this doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of "the game within the game". Stats will always be useless for the majority of player evaluation by FOs

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QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ May 11, 2014 -> 11:48 AM)
Yeah those 2 homers man... dude's JACKED all the way to a .425 SLG.

 

He has a .493 BABIP. That's the miracle from above.

 

So with the change in pitchers approach to Flowers (he is seeing a lot more high fastballs instead of sliders off the plate with 2 strikes) his BABIP has fallen over 100 points, and he is still hitting .330.

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 11, 2014 -> 11:41 AM)
So with the change in pitchers approach to Flowers (he is seeing a lot more high fastballs instead of sliders off the plate with 2 strikes) his BABIP has fallen over 100 points, and he is still hitting .330.

 

RIGHT SO STEROIDS

 

Edit: and .260 since 4/18 despite the BABIP still being insane

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