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Posted on 10/30/17 at 8:41 am to Cdawg
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And not Puig's one handed back swing low and away HR?
I was looking at the box score and it has Puig's HR 20ft longer than Correa's. But they ended up almost in the exact same spot. Puig's was caught in the first row of the Crawford boxes, and Correa's was second or third row.
Posted on 10/30/17 at 8:48 am to Groovie
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Balls have been juiced the last two years. It's not a secret.
The approach at the plate is a perfectly plausible reason. It's not like HRs are up but everything else is flat. The strikeout record was broken again this year too.
Posted on 10/30/17 at 9:02 am to cubsfan5150
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It's like college baseball in the 90s
It wasn’t the balls. It was the bats and juice.
Posted on 10/30/17 at 10:40 am to Captain Crackysack
LINK
Players and coaches from both teams commenting that there is definitely a difference.
McCullers saying he took the "blindfold" test and was able to easily discern which ball was which between regular seaon and world series balls. This is just odd.
Players and coaches from both teams commenting that there is definitely a difference.
McCullers saying he took the "blindfold" test and was able to easily discern which ball was which between regular seaon and world series balls. This is just odd.
Posted on 10/30/17 at 10:45 am to Wayne Campbell
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I was looking at the box score and it has Puig's HR 20ft longer than Correa's. But they ended up almost in the exact same spot. Puig's was caught in the first row of the Crawford boxes, and Correa's was second or third row.
Correa's was coming straight down. The distance is an estimate of where it would have landed at ground level.
Posted on 10/30/17 at 10:54 am to Captain Crackysack
Posted on 10/30/17 at 11:28 am to Captain Crackysack
Don't forget the one-armed HR by Piug (?) = never seen a HR without both hands on the bat at impact.
Posted on 10/30/17 at 11:31 am to Speedy G
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Correa's was coming straight down. The distance is an estimate of where it would have landed at ground level.
correct
Posted on 10/30/17 at 11:46 am to ChineseBandit58
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Don't forget the one-armed HR by Piug (?) = never seen a HR without both hands on the bat at impact.
I guess you didn't watch the ALCS.
Posted on 10/30/17 at 11:56 am to slackster
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The approach at the plate is a perfectly plausible reason. It's not like HRs are up but everything else is flat. The strikeout record was broken again this year too.
I thought the cybermetric thinking swung in favor of more home runs at the cost of more strike out.
Posted on 10/30/17 at 12:16 pm to SammyTiger
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I thought the cybermetric thinking swung in favor of more home runs at the cost of more strike out.
This is true. Part of the point of this post however is that many of the HRs hit did not incorporate that swing. Like Puig's HR was reaching with 1 hand.
Posted on 10/30/17 at 12:17 pm to SammyTiger
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I thought the cybermetric thinking swung in favor of more home runs at the cost of more strike out.
It does, which was my point. Players are making a conscious decision to swing for HRs at the expense of Ks, and the numbers bear that out. Suggesting it's a new ball ignores the trend in at the plate.
Posted on 10/30/17 at 12:17 pm to MrSavage
You are hearing a ton of stuff about the Ball
It’s too slick apparently and your hearing this from pitchers from both sides. Trouble gripping in on sliders.
Guys who run the balls down are saying this. Allegedly they won’t even hold ink for autographed.
It’s too slick apparently and your hearing this from pitchers from both sides. Trouble gripping in on sliders.
Guys who run the balls down are saying this. Allegedly they won’t even hold ink for autographed.
Posted on 10/30/17 at 12:18 pm to MrSavage
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Like Puig's HR was reaching with 1 hand.
Puig is also one of the strongest guys in the game, and he hit it out of the 2nd shortest LF porch in baseball.
Posted on 10/30/17 at 1:51 pm to slackster
But it is a new ball. You are ignoring testimony from the guys who handle the baseballs every day
Posted on 10/30/17 at 1:54 pm to ChineseBandit58
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Don't forget the one-armed HR by Piug (?) = never seen a HR without both hands on the bat at impact.
Kirk Gibson did it in '88.
Posted on 10/30/17 at 1:56 pm to slackster
quote:he still hit it 350
he hit it out of the 2nd shortest LF porch in baseball.
Posted on 10/30/17 at 2:39 pm to MrWiseGuy
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quote:That last Correa homer left the bat as a routine fly ball and just carried it's way out of there. He almost couldn't even believe it Of all the homers to use as an example, you pick this?
Yes. That was probably the worst one.
The exit velo was 106 and launch angle 48 degrees. In the stat cast era, no ball with that velocity and launch angle had ever been a HR. Or even a base hit. LINK
Posted on 10/30/17 at 2:46 pm to msutiger
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There is nothing worse than listening to fellow baseball fans bitch about too much offense. Your casual fan doesnt want to watch a pitchers duel. It's boring as shite. Let's grow the sport. Everyone loves dingers.
Not complaining about too much offense. I just think it's ridiculous to change the balls for the world series. It has put some of these pitchers at a huge disadvantage. They cant do things like they have done them all year long.
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