Series Thread: Mariners vs Diamondbacks: Aug 24th - 26th

[ulmax]

For all you Seager lovers...lol.

escobar is better....and a free agent...not that i think they will go after him...but you can dream...lol


Escobar, E ARI 3B 119 450 61 125 43 3 18 75 43 103 2 3 .278 .341 .507 .847

but as long as i am dreaming...maybe i could dream of seager useing the other half of the field

 

[NWinAZ]

Gordon is hands down the worst contact hitter in the history of contact hitters.

 

[ulmax]

spanning.....the globe

 

[NWinAZ]

In his last Ab, I said to my wife that Span has the best approach at the plate of any Mariner. He proved me right.

 

[megalodon30]

Denard Span! 10 HR of the season! Whoo!

Go Mariners!

 

[NWinAZ]

Span just found out in the dugout while talking with the bat boy that he grabbed the wrong bat. The batboy said it was his broken bat he grabbed.

 

[megalodon30]

Don't know how that wasn't fair. Mitch got screwed. At least from my vantage point.

 

[megalodon30]

Hermm the worm time!

 

[seahawksfan234]

Yikes. Not a good start for Diaz...

 

[megalodon30]

Couldn't keep Goldschmidt quiet forever.

 

[megalodon30]

Nice play. Double play to end it would be nicer.

 

[megalodon30]

Crowd fired up on both sides right now.

 

[seahawksfan234]

Diaz becomes the youngest player to ever record 50 saves.

 

[megalodon30]

Man, Ketel came close to making my night miserable. Nope, though. Diaz is the man.

Go Mariners!

 

[ulmax]

diaz==50....servais=thor...cut


Thor's Fight with the Giants (1872) by Mårten Eskil Winge.
In Germanic mythology, Thor (/θɔːr/; from Old Norse: Þórr) is a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, oak trees, strength, the protection of mankind, and also hallowing and fertility. Besides Old Norse Þórr, extensions of the god occur in Old English as Þunor, and in Old High German as Donar (runic þonar ᚦᛟᚾᚨᚱ). All forms of the deity stem from a Common Germanic *Þunraz (meaning 'thunder')

 

[ulmax]

In baseball, a ground ball pitcher (also ground-ball pitcher or groundball pitcher) is a type of pitcher that has a tendency to induce ground balls from opposing batters.[1] The average ground ball pitcher has a ground ball rate of at least 50% with extreme ground ball pitchers maintaining a ground ball rate of around 55%. Pitchers with a ground ball rate lower than 50% may be classified as flyball pitchers or as pitchers who exhibit the tendencies of both ground ball and fly ball pitchers.[2] Ground ball pitchers rely on pitches that are low in the strike zone with substantial downward movement,[1] such as splitters and sinker balls.[3]


Main article: 1996 World Series
In a World Series game on October 21, 1996, against the New York Yankees, then-Atlanta Braves pitcher Greg Maddux pitched one fly ball and eighteen ground balls, earning nineteen of twenty-four outs on ground balls with Wade Boggs grounding into a double play. Yankees’ catcher Joe Girardi said of Maddux’s performance, “[H]e has a great sinker and he gets a lot of ground balls.” Braves center fielder Marquis Grissom noted, “He [Maddux] works fast. His games are not boring, by no means. That’s his style of pitching. He’s a ground ball pitcher.”

this is interesting...but i am looking for....deception in ground ball pitching

ground ball guys are usually starters....but i am thinking of detwiler out of the bull pen

 

[ulmax]

fan graphs
ground ball pitches

One of the Best Ground-Ball Pitches in Baseball Isn’t a Sinker | Community – FanGraphs Baseball

An Attempt to Quantify Pitcher Deception | FanGraphs Baseball

Deception is still an integral part of a hurler's delivery.

 

[ulmax]

but maybe.. deception is becoming a lost art of pitching...with a lot of mlb...focusing on power

they may be losing there deception skills..........which is why ..top gun ..was created..

cuz all of a sudden...the airplane had too much power...which the pilots then rely on that power

and lost there dog fighting skills

 

[NWinAZ]

 

[NWinAZ]