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Series Thread: The annual Silver Boot series kicks off tonight - Rangers in Houston May 1-4

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You can say what you want about our pitchers " being bad at throwing strikes", but I think the book is out on the Rangers pitching staff. Teams know that if they go up to the plate, be patient, work the count, hit a few foul balls ( not saying anyone does those on purpose), that our pitchers will nibble by trying to throw the perfect pitch and the other team will get lots of walks. I really think they need to change their pitching philosophy.
 

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Fuck... I thought for sure we'd have single digit strikeouts today.
 

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I really think they need to change their pitching philosophy.

Problem is, the coaching staff says there's nothing wrong with the philosophy, it's that the pitchers aren't executing it correctly.
 

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Wow. We must be on some sort of record strikeout pace. I've never seen anything like this.
 

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Fuck... I thought for sure we'd have single digit strikeouts today.

It must be one heavy burden to carry that "it's hell, always being right" mountain around all the time?
 

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It must be one heavy burden to carry that "it's hell, always being right" mountain around all the time?

Well, I'm certainly wrong more than I intend to be, that's for sure! :thumb:
 

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Wow. We must be on some sort of record strikeout pace. I've never seen anything like this.
I think we are on a pace to obliterate our team record.
 

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You can say what you want about our pitchers " being bad at throwing strikes", but I think the book is out on the Rangers pitching staff. Teams know that if they go up to the plate, be patient, work the count, hit a few foul balls ( not saying anyone does those on purpose), that our pitchers will nibble by trying to throw the perfect pitch and the other team will get lots of walks. I really think they need to change their pitching philosophy.

This may be the most confusing of all your posts.

First, you start with our pitchers throwing too many balls but the "book is out", thus indicating you think things will/could get better. Then you go with, the exact opposite argument of, "if the other team will just be patient, we'll play/pitch right into their hands".
 

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I think we are on a pace to obliterate our team record.

If I read it correctly, we're on pace for the 14th highest K rate in the HISTORY OF BASEBALL.
 

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I bet the batters set a team K record and the pitchers set a team BB record.
 

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10 walks by the pitchers 10 Ks by the batter...how did we win this game?
 

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Did Gomez just tell houston fans to suck his dick?
 
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