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spain park usually aint that good at SOCCER!!! enjoy the once in a lifetime moment @Boisgreat !!!!Suppozedly COACH hates soccer BUT HE WUZ ON THE SIDELINES foe SPANE PARKS CHAMPYUNSHIP!
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Bottom line is the hitters need to get better. There is no reason to mess with the rules of baseball yet again.I like the minor league initiative they have started this season. You can shift, but all infielders must have one foot on the dirt when a pitch is thrown. So, you can shift into the 4 hole all you want or have all four IF on one side of the field, but you can’t play short RF and eat up the scorched ground balls hit by LHH and still throw them out. You’re either going to wear it to stop the ball or they can’t a play on the sharply hit balls, just like would be the case with no shift at all.
although this is true, the problem with this idea is, if a guy like Freddie Freeman hit .700 on the season by bunting every at bat, the opposing teams will have been successful in what they’re trying to accomplish with the shift.Hell no. The easiest way to beat any shift is to lay a damn bunt down. There's no reason Freeman or Albies shouldn't be able to lay a bunt down 3rd when other teams put the shift on. It's a huge part of the game that Snitker and the Braves refuse to utilize. Small ball is the purest form of baseball.
Suppozedly COACH hates soccer BUT HE WUZ ON THE SIDELINES foe SPANE PARKS CHAMPYUNSHIP!
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They have gotten better. But it’s not in the average department. Power numbers are way up. Power pitching and power hitting is the name of the game right now. And that’s what is getting players paid. More velo and more power hitting numbers.Bottom line is the hitters need to get better. There is no reason to mess with the rules of baseball yet again.
Hell. Not sure that’ll help them call a better zone.All they need to do is make the strike zone smaller.
If your advocating to fundamentally change the game simply because the hitters can’t hit to all fields or even lay drown a drag bunt when half the infield is wide open then they aren’t better hitters. It’s a disgrace.They have gotten better. But it’s not in the average department. Power numbers are way up. Power pitching and power hitting is the name of the game right now. And that’s what is getting players paid. More velo and more power hitting numbers.
One of the minor leagues is experimenting with it back a foot this seasonI think they are more likely to move the pitching mound back
The pitcher can do that....But they don't. Batters continue to try to pull balls on the outer half of the plate and round over the ball with a grounder to the infield. Most MLB pitchers now throw above 90 mph with very average locating ability at that speed. For the most part it is not pitching it is flame throwing.People arguing that you should learn to hit to both sides of the field don't seem to understand the direction you hit the ball is dependent on the location of the ball in the strike zone. For instance, if the infield shifts right, a pitcher can throw every pitch inside to a lefty or outside to a righty and make it impossible for the batter to hit it to the left side of the field.
Yes.In order to create more offense and further viewer enjoyment, I suggest that MLB should require two fielders to be on either side of second base before each pitch
I agree with you but doing this is much harder to enforce. Spin rate is like Aero in racing. The smallest difference has a big effect.I’ve got a crazy idea. Enforce the foreign substance rule with pitchers.
Spin rate is much more damaging to batting averages than velo. Batting averages are down, strike outs up, hbp up and most importantly imo, balls in play are way down. Focus on launch angle contributes to this too but the super spider stickem affects the game more than moving the mound, shifts or peds.
Yep. Hit it where they ain’t.NEGATIVE.
batters gotta lern to hit to BOTH sides of dat field
Not 100% true. If that were the case they would shift for every batter based on how they want to pitch him. Certain hitters are known to not be able to hit opposite field at all.People arguing that you should learn to hit to both sides of the field don't seem to understand the direction you hit the ball is dependent on the location of the ball in the strike zone. For instance, if the infield shifts right, a pitcher can throw every pitch inside to a lefty or outside to a righty and make it impossible for the batter to hit it to the left side of the field.