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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Mar 28, 2024 14:11:11 GMT -5
Championship. Let’s go!
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Aug 4, 2022 11:58:46 GMT -5
Still not changing my name! Never!
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Dec 8, 2021 18:13:02 GMT -5
Do you pronounce his name SEE YA!? Because I can't wait for HR calls if so. SEY-Ya
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Dec 6, 2021 18:38:02 GMT -5
I gave it an A++++++ : D
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Dec 2, 2021 18:02:35 GMT -5
What’s that you say? I need to change my name? I don’t think so!!! Welcome back, jbj!!!!!
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Oct 11, 2021 21:42:11 GMT -5
My heart! My heart! Damaged multiple blood vessels. Lessen my life span by a decade. Worth. It!
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Oct 10, 2021 20:47:17 GMT -5
I’m mentally drained— I still haven’t recovered. But totally worth it! Let’s go!!
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jul 27, 2021 9:28:54 GMT -5
Let's at least just wait until the end of the week before we start burning things. Please? I'm not burning anything, I just hate that. It's such a cop-out to say that the people in charge know what they are doing. Why be a fan then? Form your own opinions. Even Bill Belichick deserves to get criticized for deals he does and doesn't make. Chaim Bloom is certainly not above that. You’re putting way too much into a Peter Gammons tweet— talk about the blind leading the blind.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Apr 1, 2021 9:15:08 GMT -5
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Mar 7, 2021 10:01:57 GMT -5
My bad but the number of fixed wing aircraft is significantly less than rotary aircraft in the Navy. Either way, he is not going to be a pilot because of his height. He's Gopher not Maverick. (On the other hand, Meg was hotter than Kelly). Not that it matters to this baseball- centric site but the US Navy has over 2,500 fixed wing aircraft btw. Approx 1,000 plus are combat aircraft— rest are training, cargo, etc.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Mar 4, 2021 18:23:14 GMT -5
For the record: I’m not changing my screen name. 😬
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Dec 29, 2020 14:21:07 GMT -5
Don't agree that Darvish has a troubling injury history - he had the Tommy John in 2015 which knocked him out for a year and a half, but he's been very durable other than that. He's 34 now so obviously a breakdown isn't out of the question. Salary and age make a huge difference, but he's been a much, much, much better pitcher than Snell the last two years. Darvish has had a 129 ERA+ in 254 2/3 innings since the start of 2019, Snell a 111 ERA+ in 157 innings. Davies is arguably as good as Darvish but only has one year remaining, and Darvish will only have 2/$37M remaining after 2021 - hard to think they could've reupped him for such short money. Beyond that, it's a strong group of prospects but not nearly the Snell package. I think Darvish was injured most of 2018, if I remember correctly. But I agree he’s been much better than Snell the last two seasons.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Nov 26, 2020 10:13:02 GMT -5
RyanDempster @dempster46 Just heard that most teams are willing to discuss most players on the roster for trade....as long as it makes sense for the betterment of the club! Also hearing that those same teams are looking at all free agents as a possibility to improve their rosters! -per source So most teams are willing to make a trade or sign a free agent if it helps their team? Cutting edge inside insight! Pretty sure he was being sarcastic.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Aug 21, 2020 20:37:25 GMT -5
Pretty bad return. What was the rush if this is the return? Probably worried another bad outing or two and their value will drop even more.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on May 30, 2020 15:24:59 GMT -5
With tensions mounting among the naval forces of several nations in the South China Sea, I would think that the decision would pretty much have to be impacted. Tensions are high, to be sure. But I have a hard time believing that’ll have any impact on him. If he goes to flight school, he’ll be in training for the better part of a year and a half before he’s even considered for a deployable, operational assignment.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Feb 26, 2020 17:20:17 GMT -5
There really is no need for the Padres to do it unless they have something else lined up imo The whole idea behind dumping Myers and his money is so they can use it elsewhere. If they don’t have somebody lined up to use it on then what’s the point of surrendering some top prospects/young cost-controller big leaguers? I think they must have some young players they want to sign to contract extensions and wanna do it while they can get a decent deal.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Feb 19, 2020 18:54:01 GMT -5
Right, I took nothing away from this because it's all baseless speculation. No one knows how much Sale weighs right now. No one knows that his weight is directly tied to his durability. No one has any proof that any of this matters one bit and they never will. But please continue. I'm sure if talked about enough, all the answers will come forth and Chris Sale will finally understand what he's doing wrong. I know that your point was talking about his weight and his durability specifically, but there has been loads of evidence showing correlation between the weight/muscle mass relationship and durability. Like I said before, you can't go asking Chris Sale to get jacked because he loses what makes him work as a pitcher but when he is that skinny he is leaving himself with less to protect his ligaments from damage. That's just science, man. I'm not necessarily concerned if he loses a pound from the pizza he ate a couple days ago but if he is losing good weight, as one tends to do when you have the flu/pneumonia for over 10 days, you're just putting yourself in a hole. So now Sale either is going to have to take time off from game-intensity pitching to get whatever weight he's lost back or he's going to be at even more of a risk of injury because he's pitching light. It's definitely speculation, but it's nowhere close to baseless. edit: just tacking onto the correlation between weight and durability, it's the same reason golfers and distance runners lift. Even if you're not relying on traditional "strength", if you have to repeat a motion a lot that puts stress on ligaments you want to surround it with as much muscle as comfortably possible to protect it. I'm not a doctor but I work for a college track team so I have a lot of discussions with trainers about this and we are actually facing some issues that are not too dissimilar to what Sale has been going through which is why I am so vocal on the subject right now. We had some kids that got sick in mid-January and we still can't run them yet because they lost so much during their sickness and it's not like they weren't taking care of themselves; they have access to doctors, trainers, and the like the same as Sale. Now, I don't think it'll take Sale a full month to get back to it because what he's doing is a little less full-body impact than running a 400, but my whole point is it's a setback to someone that has already had injury concerns in the first place and it's certainly possible that he has a healthy year but it just makes me less confident in that than before. No offensive but you’ve taken a very complicated subject and really simplified it to such an extent it’s largely inaccurate. First, stop conflating weight and muscle mass. They’re different. The correlation between weight and durability is a spurious one. Otherwise, the solution to durability would be MacDonalds and Dunkin Donuts (I can certify from personal experience this approach while enjoyable doesn’t work... more testing might be required on this as I often tell my gf). The main causal variable is overall level of fitness (which certainly includes a focus on muscle mass but exclusively). Even the concept of muscle mass = durability is wrong because what is more important is the quality of the muscle mass (quality of muscle mass being such elements as fibre composition, metabolism, insulin resistance, aerobic capacity, fat infiltration, and neural activation, etc etc etc). You mention your experience with track— then this should be obvious. You obviously don’t tell a runner, “hey load up on cheeseburgers that’ll protect you from injury.” But you also train sprinters differently than cross country runners. Both runners have excellent muscle mass but even for the two groups the muscle quality will be different as you’re asking their bodies to perform similar but different tasks. Put this another way, take a cross country runner. You can increase the muscle mass on the runner several ways. You can have the runner bench high volumes of reps with low weights or vice versa. High levels of weights with low reps might actually increase muscle mass more than more reps/ less weight but that doesn’t mean the runner is going to get better at running or is better protected from injury. In fact, it probably suggests the opposite. Chris Sale can add 20 pounds of muscle if he wanted. That doesn’t mean it’s the right type of quality of muscle and the presence of added muscle might add not subtract the chances of injury because now you’re adding resistance (and weight) to joints. This added muscle mass might interfere with his mechanics and delivery, which might also add to an increase in injury. This is all my way of saying simply believing adding muscle will increase durability (and decrease injury) is problematic. Muscle mass and quality varies based on the individual and the sport/ activity they’re engaging in. Adding to this, different pitchers have different mechanics and deliveries that make adding muscle mass to a particular location beneficial for one pitcher harmful to another. I’m not suggesting lifting weights and adding mass is bad... just an incomplete way of looking at it. If gaining muscle (or even weight as some have suggested) was all it took for Sale to go 200 plus innings, don’t you think — given how uber competitive he is— he would have done it by now? The issue is complicated. That’s just science, man.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Feb 19, 2020 14:05:50 GMT -5
Sorry— I meant in my previous post his four-seamer not having movement. Pretty Baseball Savant he throws the 4 seam with the third-most frequency. Sinker is his primary pitch, then roughly uses the slider, four-seam, and change about the same. Mixes in a curve. Yes that’s his primary pitch but if can’t throw the two-seamer for strikes, he gets into hitters counts and is force to throw his four-seamer more... which had been the source of his problems (from what I understand).
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Feb 19, 2020 11:52:22 GMT -5
Well that certainly seems to have some life on it! Sorry— I meant in my previous post his four-seamer not having movement.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Feb 18, 2020 23:26:09 GMT -5
Looking at Quantrills game logs he had three straight games in late August early Sept where he gave up 8 ERs in each and the next start more ERs than innings. That could skew some stats. Wonder if it was a tired arm coming back from TJ or tipping? I could get behind him and that comp pick. FWIW: I asked my friend, who is a Padre fan, about this very thing. He said it definitely looked like his arm was fatigued towards the end of the season— the coaching staff admitted as much apparently as well. But another reason was that hitters started sitting on his fastball— which lacks much movement (apparently pre-TJ he had a fastball with lots of late run in it but since the surgery that late life is nonexistent) and allows hitters to real get a barrel on it. The results were lots of runs and lots of hard contact and loud outs.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Feb 12, 2020 16:57:09 GMT -5
Why's the tone in the different threads is "we should be rebuilding this year, let's try to trade everyone"? I know it'll be hard to clinch the AL East, but a Wild Card spot is very much in play by all the projections. After we get there, anything is possible. Precisely. And if we’re wrong, then we’ll be major sellers at the trade deadline with a variety of interesting players to offer. So let’s compete and go from there.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Feb 12, 2020 16:48:08 GMT -5
Yeah, let's just guess and assume we're right. Not sure who this is directed at but if it's me, are you seriously arguing that you think there's no correlation between improved strength and conditioning in athletes and the prevention of sports related injuries? Nice try but you’re changing the argument. You are conflating conditioning and strength with weight. News flash: you can be 200 pounds and not be strong or well- conditioned. Sale has never been a particularly heavy (bulk wise). That doesn’t mean he’s ever entered a season poorly conditioned or lacking in strength. Furthermore: adding twenty plus pounds to pitcher (especially one who is no longer in his teens and early 20s) is likely cause changes in his mechanics, which may increase not decrease chances of injury.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Feb 12, 2020 15:31:27 GMT -5
Sale coming into camp battling flu/pneumonia really isn't the start we needed. So instead of coming into camp at 170lbs soaking wet he's probably at like 155 when he should be at 200+ to withstand a full season's workload. Yes because it’s his weight and not his elbow and/or shoulder that prevents him from being effective late in the season. Call me an optimist, but somehow I doubt Sale having the flu in mid February is going to impact his pitching performance in September.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Feb 11, 2020 23:04:08 GMT -5
Think flipping JBJ to the Pirates for 2 low A pitching Then fill in for the Angles in that dead with the Dodges in a salary dump Joc Pederson and Ross Stripling plus newly inquiring Brusdar Graterol for Matt Barnes and C J Chatham ??!!!!!!
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Feb 9, 2020 21:04:02 GMT -5
Cough cough emergency podcast cough cough. : )
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