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jvett77
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it will be.
Rich Hill is a great pitcher and fun to watch
Hill probably has the edge in curveballs (2.07 wCB/C for Hill vs. 0.98 for Eickhoff- ranked 5th and 19th respectively in wCB/C this year in all of baseball), but they're two of the best in the business. Hill's curveball breaks vertically 7.89 inches downward (a far cry from your two feet- I think only Koufax could have done that) while Eick is barely behind him at 7.80 inches. Hill, however, has almost double the horizontal movement as Eickhoff (8.78 inches for Hill vs. 4.89 for Eick) which results in more of a slurve and may make it tougher to hit.Yeah, his curve seems to break about 2 feet. Eickhoff's is similar, maybe not that good yet.
Hill probably has the edge in curveballs (2.07 wCB/C for Hill vs. 0.98 for Eickhoff- ranked 5th and 19th respectively in wCB/C this year in all of baseball), but they're two of the best in the business. Hill's curveball breaks vertically 7.89 inches downward (a far cry from your two feet- I think only Koufax could have done that) while Eick is barely behind him at 7.80 inches. Hill, however, has almost double the horizontal movement as Eickhoff (8.78 inches for Hill vs. 4.89 for Eick) which results in more of a slurve and may make it tougher to hit.
As far as actual results this year, Eick was better at generating whiffs/swing at a whopping 39.46 w/s, while Hill was only at 22.55. Eick was able to give up a lower batting average with it (.159 to Hill's slightly higher .168) but Hill was able to generate more singles, with a much lower slugging percentage (.226 to .282).
Rich Hill is one of my favorite pitchers to watch (that is, when he actually pitches). Here's a good article on him I read back in August. Rich Hill Truly Curveballs Like No One Else | FanGraphs Baseball
Cubs should wake up with their bats in the next game.
? Baseball hasn't been around "several hundred years" lolI'd like to see the Cubs in the WS since they haven't won it all in several hundred years. But if the Philodgers somehow pull it out, that would be OK.
? Baseball hasn't been around "several hundred years" lol
Blanton to be the goat. Too much pressure for him to deal with!