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tworoosters

Oh, someboby is gonna be in trouble

June 04, 2013 at 09:22PM View BBCode

In a [url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/news/20130604/dustin-ackley-eric-wedge-sabermetrics/]recent article[/url] SI's Tom Verducci voices the opinion that the cult of "plate discipline" is ruining young hitters.

Can't wait for the sabr heads to jump on this one, especially Seattle manager Eric Wedge's line : " "People who haven't played since they were 9 years old think they have it figured out. It gets in these kids' heads."
tm4559

June 06, 2013 at 05:42PM View BBCode

i love it.

"The information hinders the hitter," said Rays pitching coach Jim Hickey. "It helps a pitcher, absolutely. I think it has a negative effect on the hitter. First of all, if you're up there thinking, you're done. "



Crash Davis: You just got lesson number one: don't think; it can only hurt the ball club.
Hamilton2

June 15, 2013 at 01:29AM View BBCode

Wowser.
thatrogue

July 09, 2013 at 10:09PM View BBCode

I guess xguest123 wasn't surprised to see this...
khazim

July 12, 2013 at 09:32PM View BBCode

The one player on the field who needs to think is the Catcher. Everybody else should simply be.

To me, "Plate discipline" is simply how often you swing pitches out of the strike zone, nothing more. Whether it's a result of swinging or making bad pitch reads doesn't matter, IMO.
thatrogue

July 15, 2013 at 12:27PM View BBCode

I could have sworn that I had posted that xguest is not surprised to see this...but now I don't see my post. Although the site indicates that this thread has five posts, I see one post from Roosters, one post from Tim, 23 posts from xguest, and nothing else after that. (I assume there would be two more posts, but those would normally show up on the second page...however, with "only" 5 posts, there is no option to go to page two.) At some point, when do these quirks with the site get fixed?
thatrogue

July 15, 2013 at 12:29PM View BBCode

Ah...interesting. If you modify the URL to indicate page 3: http://www.simdynasty.com/oldforum-viewthread.jsp?tid=361864&page=3, then you can see the other posts. Still, a quirk that needs to be fixed.

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