re: Why is it so hard for JJ to bench Yorke! The guy is not good.

Yorke's AB vs the LHP was a really good piece of hitting. It's easy to overlook the little things like this, but he has had a few flashes that show how good of a hitter he can really be. I think he was pressing after hitting a few HRs early on, thinking he had to be a power hitter.

But he is best working up the middle and backside. He is too good of a hitter to hold down. Everyone is going to continue to eat a bunch of shite when putting him down.

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Go watch Moneyball. Drawing walks doesn’t pan out the way it looks on paper in the long run.

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So, getting on base is not good??

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Could we find a guy like that that was a lot skinnier and could actually throw the ball?

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if we had a guy like that Yorke would be 3rd on the team in OBP

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Go watch Moneyball. Drawing walks doesn’t pan out the way it looks on paper in the long run.

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Well now I’m confused. I thought that was the point of Moneyball?

ITS YAMIN TIME! A 6’5” 1B sounds pretty good to me.

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Moneyball is a movie and Oakland still hasn’t won shite!

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Yet everyone in baseball uses analytics now to structure their rosters and everything else during games. Oakland showed how to do it with no money and players no one wanted

I think several of you ITT missed the point of that film. I won’t even get into all the stuff the film left out

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The worst thing Yorke did was hit 4 HRs the first two weeks of the season. He set a bar that a lot of idiots on here expected him to sustain and, if he doesn’t, he sucks.

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I’m fairly confident when he came here, both he and Jay agreed that LSU would try and turn him into a power first hitter to improve his pro prospects.

He has 25 HR/year power, but a 10 HR/year natural swing. I feel as though they tried to tweak that swing, and it’s just not working.

So now Jay has moved him down in the lineup and told him to get back to his old approach. Or maybe they’re trying to stick with the power approach, as Jay is a big process guy and doesn’t just abandon these things.

I absolutely don’t blame either of them for trying this by the way.

Regardless, Yorke is a guy that will remain in the lineup. You don’t bench .475 OBP. His fielding ability is not bad at all. Every one of his errors has come on bang bang throws that have been about 6 inches short. It’s not like he’s booting balls and sailing throws to second base every game.

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Go watch Moneyball. Drawing walks doesn’t pan out the way it looks on paper in the long run.

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I think YOU need to go watch Moneyball again!! They say the exact Opposite of what you wrote.

Because one HR every ten games or so always undoes all of the numerous Ks and pop ups. Always has and always will.