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He's hitting a ton of ground balls this season, yet striking out more as well. That's a worrisome combination.
how about now?
What is he doing? Seems like it's all smoke and mirrors from the outside, but anybody stringing together decent starts for that team and that ballpark has my attention. Prices on him are still cheap if I can ignore velocity and virtually every metric.Timmy turning back the clock
Drew Stubbs – Demoted to Triple-A right after Dickerson landed on the DL because Walt Weiss hates you. Don’t look around like he hates someone else. It’s you!
Unless he develops a third pitch I'm wary he's always going to be like this, frustratingly dominant. I think his o-swing has dropped below 30 because batters are making him throw strikes early in the count. If he gets ahead then he can just slider them to death, until his arms falls off anyway. He's gotta get ahead though.
#2 OPS in MLB
Yup. Batters seem to be waiting him out more this year—at least the Cubs are. He still gets his Ks, but when he's forced to throw strikes with his fastball, he's vulnerable, because he doesn't spot it very well.
He's gotten further away from being a four-seam, power pitcher and using his other stuff more often. That seems to be why the velocity is down.What is he doing? Seems like it's all smoke and mirrors from the outside, but anybody stringing together decent starts for that team and that ballpark has my attention. Prices on him are still cheap if I can ignore velocity and virtually every metric.Timmy turning back the clock
"Carly Got it" (referring to Carlos Gomez)
Is he an ace like Porcello?the moops said:
The Moose is loose! Batting .333 and looking great on defense.
i enjoyed the spike in hrs by morales last night
Moose fundamentally changed his hitting approach during the offseason. Instead of trying to jack fly balls into the shift every time, he's content with hitting singles to left where there aren't extra defenders. Not sure if the numbers support it, but he seems to be more patient at the plate, too. This is going to keep up until teams stop shifting on him. And like Nugget said, Moose's defense has come a long way. He made a great play to start an inning-ending double play, overshadowed by two highlight-reel plays form Escobar.
He has dropped his pull % from 50 to 35 and upped his opposite field % from 21 to 34 as you noted.
FWIW, other guys who are pulling the ball more than 10% less of the time compared to last year (in descending order of drop):
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Thanks! So Moose seems more patient because he's making more contact, but he's not actually seeing more pitches. Fair enough.
Not if the union has a say. Not sure they can do a DH tomorrow if it's a travel dayIf SF/COL gets rained out again today, would we be blessed with a triple header tomorrow?
On Moose's first PA tonight, STL played the outfield straightaway, put the 2B in shallow right field, and lined up the SS close to second base but not across it. Nowhere near as severe a shift as we've seen teams defend Moose since the rise of the aggressive shift.First pitch, he showed bunt and took a strike.
I don't think so
They weren't bad at anything else. They were just completely obsessed with Colome's slowness. Must have referenced fielders getting bored 10+ times in the hour I listened.
