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Post by jimed14 on Jul 5, 2016 19:00:12 GMT -5
I wonder if All-Star JBJ's HR would have been gone with a normal ball.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jul 5, 2016 19:03:27 GMT -5
Off the top of my feeble head, I can't think of another player JBJ's size who had his power. He's listed at 5'10", 200 pounds and I am calling BS on that. He's not nearly that big. But he hits 400-foot bombs to CF.
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Post by Don Caballero on Jul 5, 2016 19:06:16 GMT -5
Sandy is the biggest ASG snub this year.
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Post by jimed14 on Jul 5, 2016 19:06:26 GMT -5
Off the top of my feeble head, I can't think of another player JBJ's size who had his power. He's listed at 5'10", 200 pounds and I am calling BS on that. He's not nearly that big. But he hits 400-foot bombs to CF. I bet he's heavier than that. I read somewhere last year that he had put about 25 pounds of muscle to his legs before 2015 started. He uses all of that muscle.
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Post by telson13 on Jul 5, 2016 19:07:46 GMT -5
Off the top of my feeble head, I can't think of another player JBJ's size who had his power. He's listed at 5'10", 200 pounds and I am calling BS on that. He's not nearly that big. But he hits 400-foot bombs to CF. Eric Davis. Hell, Hank Aaron was 5'10, 170. But yeah, I saw video of JBJ and Mookie together, and Mookie actually looks a tiny bit taller. So I'd second your BS call...I say JBJ is 5'8", 180.
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Post by ancientsoxfogey on Jul 5, 2016 19:08:14 GMT -5
I wonder how often a lineup has its 9th place hitter hitting .500 -- other than the first-game rookie who goes 1 for 2.
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Post by bosox on Jul 5, 2016 19:08:39 GMT -5
Another runner 90 feet away - can they score him.
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Post by Guidas on Jul 5, 2016 19:09:52 GMT -5
Brutal again.
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Post by Don Caballero on Jul 5, 2016 19:11:00 GMT -5
Second inning in a row with a dude on third and less than 2 outs and something like that happens. Against a junkballer no less.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jul 5, 2016 19:11:44 GMT -5
Off the top of my feeble head, I can't think of another player JBJ's size who had his power. He's listed at 5'10", 200 pounds and I am calling BS on that. He's not nearly that big. But he hits 400-foot bombs to CF. Eric Davis. Hell, Hank Aaron was 5'10, 170. But yeah, I saw video of JBJ and Mookie together, and Mookie actually looks a tiny bit taller. So I'd second your BS call...I say JBJ is 5'8", 180. I'd bet that Hank Aaron was bigger than that. I think back in the day a guy's weight would show up on the back of his BB card early in his career and just never get updated. But I think you raise an interesting point. Back then, the athletes were not nearly as big as what we see now.
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Post by jimed14 on Jul 5, 2016 19:11:57 GMT -5
Off the top of my feeble head, I can't think of another player JBJ's size who had his power. He's listed at 5'10", 200 pounds and I am calling BS on that. He's not nearly that big. But he hits 400-foot bombs to CF. Eric Davis. Hell, Hank Aaron was 5'10, 170. But yeah, I saw video of JBJ and Mookie together, and Mookie actually looks a tiny bit taller. So I'd second your BS call...I say JBJ is 5'8", 180. There's no way. He's built like a short and powerful NFL running back.
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Post by jimed14 on Jul 5, 2016 19:17:02 GMT -5
Holt is pretty underrated in the OF. He's probably as good as Mookie.
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Post by thursty on Jul 5, 2016 19:20:40 GMT -5
Speaking of Eric Davis; I was just a youngster, but Eric Davis 1987/8 was and still is the greatest player I've ever seen; and not even a HOF, but speed, power, patience, arm - and skinny as Mr. Williams
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Post by ancientsoxfogey on Jul 5, 2016 19:22:37 GMT -5
OK -- so when Price has to get pulled after 5 innings tonight due to pitch count, how are we going to get 12 more outs?
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Post by thursty on Jul 5, 2016 19:28:21 GMT -5
MLB Gameday has the linescore RHE and C, with the C column yellow. I have no idea what the C stands for. Help?
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Post by jimed14 on Jul 5, 2016 19:30:21 GMT -5
This guy pitches like half the guys in the 70s. And probably like from every other decade before that, but I didn't see any of them.
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Post by jimed14 on Jul 5, 2016 19:32:14 GMT -5
MLB Gameday has the linescore RHE and C, with the C column yellow. I have no idea what the C stands for. Help? Run/Hit/Error/Challenges?
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Post by wcp3 on Jul 5, 2016 19:40:46 GMT -5
Awful base running all around.
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Post by mgoetze on Jul 5, 2016 19:41:06 GMT -5
Maybe they should take a $100 deposit from anyone with a front row seat. You interfere with a ball in play, you forfeit the deposit.
Also, terrible baserunning by Shaw.
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Post by telson13 on Jul 5, 2016 19:41:30 GMT -5
Eric Davis. Hell, Hank Aaron was 5'10, 170. But yeah, I saw video of JBJ and Mookie together, and Mookie actually looks a tiny bit taller. So I'd second your BS call...I say JBJ is 5'8", 180. There's no way. He's built like a short and powerful NFL running back. Barry Sanders was 5'8", 203. Same as Walter Payton. I don't believe JBJ is as beefy as those two. Regardless, for a short guy he hits some absolute bombs.
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Post by DesignatedKyle on Jul 5, 2016 19:43:17 GMT -5
for every Betts and Bogaerts on the bases we have a Hanley and Shaw
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Post by Guidas on Jul 5, 2016 19:45:00 GMT -5
This leaving men at third crap is fugly.
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Post by bosox on Jul 5, 2016 19:46:05 GMT -5
Throwing slop but they can't hit it with runners on.
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Post by thursty on Jul 5, 2016 19:49:40 GMT -5
If Mookie had a 10% BB rate, what would his annual WAR be? 6.5-7? And given his ml track record *and* skillset, he should achieve 10% no sweat
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Post by thursty on Jul 5, 2016 19:50:41 GMT -5
MLB Gameday has the linescore RHE and C, with the C column yellow. I have no idea what the C stands for. Help? Run/Hit/Error/Challenges? Ah, yes. Thanks Was driving me batty
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