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Post by fenwaythehardway on Oct 15, 2019 8:17:12 GMT -5
Ted Williams would have hit 100 HR a season if he were on the Yankees or Astros today. Boy, I'd sure hate to root for a team where certain hitters get a crazy advantage from the dimensions and/or features of their home park...
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 15, 2019 8:45:35 GMT -5
Ted Williams would have hit 100 HR a season if he were on the Yankees or Astros today. Boy, I'd sure hate to root for a team where certain hitters get a crazy advantage from the dimensions and/or features of their home park... I'd be bitching about a new Fenway that had the same dimensions with a 10 foot tall Green Monster too. Because that's basically what we're talking about. Houston's park has about the same dimensions to LF with a wall less than half as high and no spacious RF to compensate. They even got rid of the huge CF they used to have. Torres hit a 343 foot HR to straight away LF the other night that wouldn't have been more than halfway up the Monster. Then Urshela hit a 360 foot HR to straight away RF to a spot it takes at least 385 feet to hit a HR in Fenway. The original Fenway Park was built to suit the location more than any other reason. I wouldn't complain about any old stadiums.
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Oct 15, 2019 13:47:23 GMT -5
Right right right, it's different when we do it.
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 15, 2019 13:50:17 GMT -5
Right right right, it's different when we do it. I wasn't around in 1912.
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Post by gerry on Oct 15, 2019 15:29:51 GMT -5
Right right right, it's different when we do it. I wasn't around in 1912. The old urban ballparks which fit themselves into available dimensions were the norm back then. People walked to games or took the trolley. Fenway and Wrigley and Ebbets were the norms. Chavez Ravine, though downtown in a spread out city, broke that norm, which is why the Parking Lot king is still raking in the dough. Even modern Baltimore and San Diego (note the connection) did this in some respects, whereas the older Padres Jack Murphy stadium was built by freeways, like the Big A. Neither walking nor trollies are an option. The new Worcester AAA park has similar but fewer downtown constraints. IMO these newer, freestanding ballparks should not be cookie cutters nor should they allow pony league HR.
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Post by redsoxfan2 on Oct 15, 2019 16:02:37 GMT -5
Right right right, it's different when we do it. I wasn't around in 1912. Whose fault is that?
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Post by redsoxfan2 on Oct 15, 2019 16:07:40 GMT -5
Glad to see the Nationals are on the cusp of winning the LCS. Crazy how far they came when at one point it was thought they might be in the market to shop players like Scherzer in what was starting to look like a lost season.
Just a thinly plucked example, on May 24th the Nationals were: 20-31 (.392) and 8.5 games out of the WC2 spot, good for 11th in the race.
I just hope that they don't dispose of the Cardinals too quickly and have to sit and wait for a dragged out series between the Yankees and Astros. Out of the remaining teams I'm rooting for in order:
Nationals Astros Cardinals Yankees
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 15, 2019 17:31:37 GMT -5
This is one hell of a game.
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Post by soxfaninnj on Oct 15, 2019 17:38:29 GMT -5
They def changed the ball back that’s 3 balls that would have been gone easily earlier in the season
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Post by kevfc89 on Oct 15, 2019 17:45:45 GMT -5
didi's near homerun had an xba of .100; praise the deflated baseballs for keeping that popup in the park though, that is gone in the regular season.
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Oct 15, 2019 17:48:49 GMT -5
Great job secretly changing the baseball, Baseball.
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Post by patford on Oct 15, 2019 17:57:14 GMT -5
Ted Williams would have hit 100 HR a season if he were on the Yankees or Astros today. Boy, I'd sure hate to root for a team where certain hitters get a crazy advantage from the dimensions and/or features of their home park... Not to mention a crazy advantage from the dimensions of the strike zone. Latest example Gerrit Cole who has turned into Chris Sale.
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 15, 2019 17:58:38 GMT -5
I don't have the data for this season, but last year, the two guys with 20 or more HR that had the lowest average number of parks a HR would be hit in are Gregorius #1 and Bregman #2. Gregorius averaged 18.something and Bregman 19.
I can't imagine Gregorius leaving NY. Every team in the league knows his numbers are based so much on Yankee Stadium.
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Post by soxfaninnj on Oct 15, 2019 17:59:32 GMT -5
Gotta walk Bregman right?
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Post by soxfaninnj on Oct 15, 2019 18:04:56 GMT -5
Score 2 runs on 1 hit love it! Highest exit velocity was 93 mph by Altuve which prob was a double play under normal circumstances.
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Post by kevfc89 on Oct 15, 2019 18:05:21 GMT -5
it's great to see Ottavino turning into a pumpkin at the perfect time of year
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Post by soxfaninnj on Oct 15, 2019 18:13:43 GMT -5
it's great to see Ottavino turning into a pumpkin at the perfect time of year I always had the opinion of relying so heavily on bullpens might back fire because the chance of all 5 guys being on every night in big spots is statically unlikely
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 15, 2019 18:14:05 GMT -5
Here I was thinking all game that Cole is pitching terribly for Cole and he still gave up 0 runs.
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 15, 2019 18:14:49 GMT -5
it's great to see Ottavino turning into a pumpkin at the perfect time of year I always had the opinion of relying so heavily on bullpens might back fire because the chance of all 5 guys being on every night in big spots is statically unlikely And the next game for the Yankees is supposed to be a bullpen game. Though the probable rainout likely changes that.
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Post by soxfaninnj on Oct 15, 2019 18:27:32 GMT -5
He’s out! Please don’t mess this up
Add good call blue!!!
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 15, 2019 18:30:12 GMT -5
He’s out! Please don’t mess this up Add good call blue!!! I was about to say NY calls NY safe.
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 15, 2019 18:32:56 GMT -5
I don't have the data for this season, but last year, the two guys with 20 or more HR that had the lowest average number of parks a HR would be hit in are Gregorius #1 and Bregman #2. Gregorius averaged 18.something and Bregman 19. I can't imagine Gregorius leaving NY. Every team in the league knows his numbers are based so much on Yankee Stadium. Torres is probably competing with these guys. Also, stay classy NY. The entire crowd erupted in a roar when Cessa hit Bregman.
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Post by soxfaninnj on Oct 15, 2019 18:48:06 GMT -5
Please be a Koji type of save and not a kimbrel type
Add: koji type!!!
2 down 2 to go!!!!
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Post by incandenza on Oct 15, 2019 19:05:12 GMT -5
Ted Williams would have hit 100 HR a season if he were on the Yankees or Astros today. Boy, I'd sure hate to root for a team where certain hitters get a crazy advantage from the dimensions and/or features of their home park... Well, jimed's complaining about homers and Fenway actually suppresses homers. Not that I would begrudge anyone a little anti-homer homerism anyways... Meanwhile: great win!
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Post by cutz on Oct 15, 2019 19:15:01 GMT -5
didi's near homerun had an xba of .100; praise the deflated baseballs for keeping that popup in the park though, that is gone in the regular season. I didn't watch the game. (In fact, i haven't watched one pitch of MFY in the playoffs) But, i saw the highlight of Gregorious pop-up to the fence. Did you/anyone get the distance that ball went? I saw the distance of Torres HR to right, and where i got it from, it had that it went 350 FT. to straight away RF.
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