INSTANT REACTION: Dodgers sign Korean infielder Hye-seong Kim
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Feel free
5 home runs against the Yankees bro
tick tick tick
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Could be the chemo
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Can't or won't? They have plenty of pitching assets and they can't pay to keep all of them.
Also, everyone says the starting rotation is incredible, but their away game pitching stats last season were pretty average, borderline mediocre.
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I'm not sure why they won't move in the outfield walls.
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At least sign a few of the pitchers to longer term deals before doing it (bait and switch).
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The field is already small. HRs aren't the problem, the batter's eye, Ks, and low BA are. The gaps are too small and line drives float and get caught.
They blew it when they designed the thing. They can fix some things but moving in the fences more will make everything worse aside from home runs.
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The problem is the cold, marine air doesn't allow balls to carry, and the batters eye is also probably a part of it, too.
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Im too lazy to open that link at the moment. I'm sure it highlights that TMobile has the lowest BA and highest K rates in the league by wide margins. Shots to the gaps (smallest or nearly the smallest gaps in MLB) hang in the air and get caught. Ms hitters, as bad as they are as a team, hit better at home than their opponents.
Edgar Martinez, the ultimate gap and contact hitter, hit over 30 HR and over .300 playing his home games there. It can be done.
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Edgar is HOF. I don't see any future HOF talent in the lineup right now. Maybe Julio can get there.
There's some nerd data in the spreadsheet that I don't comprehend. Bottom line looks like this for T-Mobile Park, over the past 3 seasons:
- Total hits - Fewest in MLB
- Singles - Fewest in MLB
- Doubles - Fewest in MLB
- Triples - 3rd fewest in MLB
- HR - 19th overall and much closer to the fewest than the most
- SO - Worst in MLB (by a lot)
- BB - 3rd fewest in MLB
- OBP - Worst in MLB
- Runs - Worst in MLB by a landslide
- Overall park factor - Worst in MLB by a lot
Terrible place to watch a game because there's no action. Even worse to try and hit there.
