re: Those bitching about swinging for the fences

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He didn't. I became fascinated with his pitch location and watched, and I'll bet it wasn't 30% and many of those were mistakes that barely missed.

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and as evidenced by the balls that Katz and Ibarra smoked, if every player goes up there with their only goal at the beginning of every at bat being to force this guy to throw one strike, we would have pounded the shite out of him.

Instead we went through the order 3 teams with everybody but Laird chasing high fastballs out of the zone like it was going out of style.