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Post by philsbosoxfan on Jun 2, 2014 8:13:54 GMT -5
Coming into the game, Lester is tied for fourth in pitchers WAR with 2.2 Lackey is 11th with 1.9. It begins to tail off a tad after that.
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Post by feez732 on Jun 2, 2014 8:14:25 GMT -5
Worst strike zone of the year: It was certainly a very large strike zone, but he appears to have expanded it a similar amount on both sides of the plate. He also seems to have been reasonably consistent with his defined strike zone. I'm certain we've seen games where the strike zone was much more of a moving target. Coming into the game, Lester is tied for fourth in pitchers WAR with 2.2 Lackey is 11th with 1.9. It begins to tail off a tad after that. Not a pitcher obviously, but Bogaerts is also at 1.8.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Jun 2, 2014 8:23:25 GMT -5
Dyslexic logic is a terrible thing to waste on a programmer. They should have made one color be the home team one color the visitor and one shape a called strike and one shape a called ball.
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Post by jimed14 on Jun 2, 2014 8:25:12 GMT -5
The Sox need Victorino healthy and playing like he did last year and I think they probably need some help in LF as Gomes as the full-time LF sounds like a problem to me. Guess they'll be looking for some OF help and perhaps a starter in the trade market.Meanwhile I think it's a no-brainer that ultimately Holt will be kept as the super-sub over the useless Herrera. Maybe with the news that Holt will get some time in the OF, he'll platoon with Gomes in LF - after Drew and Napoli are back. If all goes well, perhaps they don't need to overpay for an OF bat at the deadline. Although, Holt currently, with his SSS, leads all LHH in avg vs. LHP. I highly doubt it's sustainable. Gomes has earned the fulltime job with his 59 wRC+ vs RHP, according to Farrell so I doubt it. He'll probably platoon with other LHH.
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Post by jimed14 on Jun 2, 2014 8:29:27 GMT -5
Worst strike zone of the year: It was certainly a very large strike zone, but he appears to have expanded it a similar amount on both sides of the plate. He also seems to have been reasonably consistent with his defined strike zone. I'm certain we've seen games where the strike zone was much more of a moving target. If you look at the RHH zone again, you can see on the outside part of the plate there are a ton of green and red right on top of each other. Some are hard to see. It was incredibly inconsistent. There were a very high number of taken pitches yesterday. Also, I'm so done with the LHH strike zone. I'd file a complaint with the players union if I were a LHB because it's probably affecting how much money they make.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jun 2, 2014 12:35:17 GMT -5
The Sox need Victorino healthy and playing like he did last year and I think they probably need some help in LF as Gomes as the full-time LF sounds like a problem to me. Guess they'll be looking for some OF help and perhaps a starter in the trade market.Meanwhile I think it's a no-brainer that ultimately Holt will be kept as the super-sub over the useless Herrera. Maybe with the news that Holt will get some time in the OF, he'll platoon with Gomes in LF - after Drew and Napoli are back. If all goes well, perhaps they don't need to overpay for an OF bat at the deadline. Although, Holt currently, with his SSS, leads all LHH in avg vs. LHP. I highly doubt it's sustainable. Really? Not questioning you at all. I don't doubt what you've heard/read, but the Sox are going to try Holt in LF, too? I can't imagine he has much experience there and I can't imagine you'd want a corner OF with practically no power at all. Don't get me wrong - I like Brock Holt, I really do. I think he could be a regular 2b on a lot of teams and be a .280 - .300 hitter with little power and not many walks - sort of a modern day Marty Barrett, but they had him at 1b and they'll try him in LF, too? I don't think his bat is that strong to play those positions, especially with his total lack of experience in those spots in which he could become a major defensive liability. Maybe the Sox prove me wrong there and he gives them a Marty Barrett or even Jeff Frye like performance in LF, which is probably better than Gomes playing every day, but if there's another solution that isn't too costly I hope the Sox find it. I like Holt around to back up 2b, SS (if necessary), and 3b, but I guess the Sox want him to be around to play every position?
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Post by Guidas on Jun 2, 2014 13:41:08 GMT -5
Just out of curiosity, can anyone here provide the technical definition of what a strike is? No fair referring to the official rules of baseball before you do so. I always though it was armpits (or letters) to knees and from the black of the plate on in. Is that incorrect? I am positive it's not those white lines of the batter's box.
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Post by jrffam05 on Jun 2, 2014 14:26:23 GMT -5
Upper limit is halfway between the belt and the shoulder, bottom limit is just below the knee (the hollow below the kneecap), by definition. If the ball is over any part of the plate within this upper/lower limit it is a strike. I can say that the high strike is not called by this definition. Good picture from wikipedia. This is not the strike zone that is enforced although it is the strike zone by the book. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Strike_zone_en.JPG
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Post by mgoetze on Jun 2, 2014 16:20:30 GMT -5
Really? Not questioning you at all. I don't doubt what you've heard/read, but the Sox are going to try Holt in LF, too? I can't imagine he has much experience there and I can't imagine you'd want a corner OF with practically no power at all. First of all, it doesn't matter how you get your offensive production, whether through home runs or through correspondingly more singles etc. Runs are runs and they are what win ball games no matter how you get them. Secondly, even if for some obscure reason there were a need for a power hitter (there isn't), you've got one at SS/3B (Xander) where you traditionally don't need one so if you have someone who hits like a (plus offensive) shortstop in left field you just switch those two in the order. There is no magical requirement for a certain position to have a certain offensive profile. It's just that as the defensive position gets easier, the bar for the total offensive production becomes higher because it's easier to find replacement-level guys who can provide that level. But we're not in the offseason where we can just sign new guys at will, we have a full roster. So all that really matters is, can Holt give more offensive production (again, the profile doesn't matter) than the other guys on the roster (Sizemore, Gomes, Nava, etc.). If Holt hits two doubles for every Gomes homer then the answer is yes. That's all there is to it.
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