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Post by deepjohn on Sept 8, 2016 11:05:57 GMT -5
Dont worry about the minor league players in the playoffs they have mailed it in. The coaches have mailed it in, they are barely professionals and dont know how to finish strong, everyone has checked out and do not care and neither should y'all. "On the one hand, I'm a highly touted prospect who has really improved his status after missing the first ten weeks of the season and really brought myself into the national spotlight. We've made the playoffs, and there are a ton of scouts here. Even a bunch of national baseball publication folks are here, in Salem Freaking Virginia, specifically to see me pitch. So maybe I'll try. But on the other hand, it's almost fishing season and I'm close to 58 innings on the season. I'll mail it in." EDIT: If Kopech was, in fact "checked out" it would be a far worse thing than him just being bad that day. He hasn't pitched nearly enough this season to have an excuse for losing focus in such a situation. I think Kopech is working on his secondary pitches, the 91 MPH curve/slider and the 89 MPH cut/change, which have great movement. If he went up there throwing all fastballs, you'd probably have more strikes, but then he wouldn't get the work in on the secondaries. The other team knows this, and is adopting a strategy of not swinging. Throwing secondary pitches outside the zone is not a bad thing, in and of itself. The trick is that the batter needs to be fooled into swinging at the secondary pitch. Of course, that doesn't happen as often if the batter has a predetermined strategy of not swinging. Add to this that Kopech may have a little something off his mechanics, the way that Price, Porcello, Erod and Buch have all had at various times, causing them to miss more often, from time to time. But it's more pronounced with an elite power pitcher like Kopech, resulting in WPs and HBPs and such.
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Post by jimed14 on Sept 8, 2016 11:07:07 GMT -5
It might be 380 to the base of the wall. Then add whatever distance it takes to go more than 20 feet over that.
I'm not sure how throwing 4 strikes in his first 24 pitches is not horrible.
Why am I even posting this?
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Post by jimed14 on Sept 8, 2016 11:10:37 GMT -5
"On the one hand, I'm a highly touted prospect who has really improved his status after missing the first ten weeks of the season and really brought myself into the national spotlight. We've made the playoffs, and there are a ton of scouts here. Even a bunch of national baseball publication folks are here, in Salem Freaking Virginia, specifically to see me pitch. So maybe I'll try. But on the other hand, it's almost fishing season and I'm close to 58 innings on the season. I'll mail it in." EDIT: If Kopech was, in fact "checked out" it would be a far worse thing than him just being bad that day. He hasn't pitched nearly enough this season to have an excuse for losing focus in such a situation. I think Kopech is working on his secondary pitches, the 91 MPH curve/slider and the 89 MPH cut/change, which have great movement. If he went up there throwing all fastballs, you'd probably have more strikes, but then he wouldn't get the work in on the secondaries. The other team knows this, and is adopting a strategy of not swinging. Throwing secondary pitches outside the zone is not a bad thing, in and of itself. The trick is that the batter needs to be fooled into swinging at the secondary pitch. Of course, that doesn't happen as often if the batter has a predetermined strategy of not swinging. Add to this that Kopech may have a little something off his mechanics, the way that Price, Porcello, Erod and Buch have all had at various times, causing them to miss more often, from time to time. But it's more pronounced with an elite power pitcher like Kopech, resulting in WPs and HBPs and such. From scouting the box score, I know that he was not working on secondary pitches. You're wrong. Everything he did that was good was lucky and everything he did that was bad was the kind of pitcher he'll become. I'm now exactly as ridiculous as you.
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Post by deepjohn on Sept 8, 2016 11:18:00 GMT -5
The humor is not lost on me. But for those interested.
The difference is in swings and misses and hard contact. Those the pitcher can control. Those can be inferred from game logs (not box scores) and are truly elite in all Kopech's games.
The swing rate and BABIP are more likely to be outside the pitcher's control, and variable from game to game, or inning to inning.
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Post by James Dunne on Sept 8, 2016 11:54:54 GMT -5
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