I just need to wait until 2044 for the Royals to make the playoffs again
But they'll win it all again in 2045 so there's thatI just need to wait until 2044 for the Royals to make the playoffs again
No need to dig into too much detail on this. Any of the teams in the postseason was good enough to win. But the Phillies not winning was obviously a thinly veiled attempt by the liberal media to distract us from the recent Bigfoot/Alien sightings that everyone seems to be ignoring.
The other team scored more in 4 games.
Truer words never typed. The Phillies played more games than all but 2 teams. It doesn't make sense to base any analysis of their season on the 3-4 performance against the Diamondbacks. The same is true with all the teams that made the playoffs and didn't make the WS. It's especially annoying when someone that didn't even follow a team all season starts making recommendations on all the moves a team should make in the offseason based on what they saw in the postseason. But I guess it's good for getting clicks.
Oh shit, I get it now. I was fine the last couple days when there was no baseball. But now that the series is about to start and the Phils aren't in it I might need to be talked off that ledge.
All the D’Backs had to do was go in with a plan to not throw strikes. It’s a desperate attempt for a team down 2-0 and fuck if it didn’t work. They had guys swinging through balls off the plate the rest of the series. I read in Games 6 and 7 Trea Turner saw 22 pitches and he swung at 19 of them. I can’t believe that the Phillies didn’t adjust when it was apparent to nearly everybody that they weren’t throwing strikes. Lots of blame to go around but one guy who has skirted blame is Kevin Long. He’s given wide latitude all season in developing an approach at the plate. Our hitters went up there without a plan. If it was one or two guys that would be on them but it was the whole freaking lineup.
oops, sorry to open up this again. Dude, stop trying to make sense of it. It's baseball variance. I really don't think a lot of planning goes into it. Trea Turner is a hacker and always will be. Sometimes it will work out, sometimes it won't. The truth is plate discipline is something that rarely changes over the course of a players' career. Hits depend a lot on luck but plate discipline is consistent. For example, I'd bet you any amount of money that barring injuries Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber will always have at least twice as many walks as Castellanos and Turner. Every time, Every year no matter what any of their batting averages is or what kind of planning or programs their hitting coaches worked on with them.
I agree with a lot of this. At the same time, when you get into playoff competition in every sport teams make you beat them left handed. There are things that can be done and said to change an approach at the plate. We’ve seen it with both of the players you named. There have been times this season where both players made the adjustment and changed approach. I am a believer that winning baseball is making adjustments and then making adjustments to the opponents adjustments. I’m on board with what you’re saying if we are talking about 162 games. But in October you have to be able to adjust. Fuck! Trea Turner is fucking trying to bunt for a hit he was so frustrated. If you’re frustrated then changing it up should be taking pitches. Not necessarily to pass the bat, but to get a mistake. When you don’t have to make shit even look like a strike to get a swing you’re not getting that mistake. The mistake paints the black haha.
I agree there are adjustments made back and forth by pitchers and hitters. But my main point was trying to dive into the minutia that of what a hitting coach is supposed to do and what adjustments a batter makes seems like a futile effort that will only frustrate us as fans.
