Move in the fences
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Yeah Raleigh in particular is good about going up there with a plan and sticking to it. He hit that HR last night in a 78 mph changeup on the outside corner. He knew it was coming.
Julio, when he's right, has a quick enough bat to read pitches in the air and adjust. He just has to be calm in the box. Note that he had two poor ABs last night in clutch situations.
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Mark Derosa broke down Julio’s issues in depth last week on MLB network, and nailed it in my opinion…poor balance (on his toes), lunging to cover the slider away (no backside load), and wearing him out in off the plate with 2-seamers. Last week, I saw him repeatedly punch out on FBs that were balls out of the hand, running in. All of the early season sliders made him jumpy, and if you can run heaters in, it’s taking candy from a baby…
Solid balanced base, look to the middle of the field…same as it ever was
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If you saw some of his ABs these last few games you see him do exactly the opposite of all of those issues. No toe balancing act, no diving, and on time for fastballs.
It's pretty plain when you look at some of his exit velocities. He's been crushing it in a way the Julio of the last month or two wasn't even capable of.
I wonder if Stalin has noticed. He almost traded me Julio last year right before he went on that ridiculous tear.
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Now that is interesting ~ I’m going to have to speak with an old friend [he used to be my neighbor in Malibu] who is actually the head designer that designed the stadium [has also designed all kinds of stadiums around the country] and ask him about that… this makes a lot of sense and its easy to explain that it gets in the players head [especially the home team that plays 1/2 their games in the environment] and then even on the road it has shaken your feeling of being able to get in a groove and hit ANYWHERE. Im buying this scenario ~ it feels right, its like secret bumps on a billiard table
It does make me wonder what Edgar would say about it…
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You seem to have the same take as me. Something is rotten. I could only spitball ideas, but Teoscar is far from the first guy to talk like this about the park.
You're definitely right about the lingering effects for the guys who struggle there. Hitting is 81% mental. If you can visualize it and feel it as you walk to the plate your odds of hitting the ball well go up by hundreds of percentage points.
I had a fun rivalry with another coach as our kids came up through little league, juniors, Babe Ruth etc. He's like 6'6". He could pump 70mph fastballs down the pipe all day long and never get tired. All he did was frustrate and scare his kids and they never felt what it was like to get in a groove. They pitched well and would win most games but only like 2-0 or similar scores.
My strategy was the opposite. I'd sit on a chair with an L screen, maybe 30 from the plate, and throw meatball after meatball. I was still doing it this way when they were 15-16 My good hitters would get so dialed in they could hit me hard in their sleep and that invariably transferred to the next game.
He always complained that he couldn't understand how I kept getting all the good hitters and I always told him the same thing. Nothing breeds success in hitting like success.
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I’m going to take one for the tem and boycott watching them…they will reel off 7-8 in a row…every time I’ve done this in the past, it worked 81% of the time…
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I think Servais needs to go…he isn’t the problem, but he’s got no solution (or warm bodies to swing a bat). All managers / Head ball coaches have a shelf life, and Scott’s has expired. He is clearly in agony (I have firsthand experience with that face)…a month ago he was toast of the town, and now he’s toast…
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Unfortunately I agree. He has run his course and looks like a dead man walking. Like you said he isn't the problem. I don't think he's even part of the problem. He isn't part of the solution though, either.
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Servais is of course the scapegoat, a stud manager [they could have gotten Boche] would be great, but if I’m the owner of the team, overpay to make a deal for 2 bats needed to happen 30 days ago, and I also would have overpaid to made a deal over the last winter for a real player as well to keep Teoscar who did start to figure it out over the last 2 months of last season. I know I’m beating a dead pony but ownership has no sense of timing and baseball talent, and only cares about profit which of course I understand is real because they are not carefree billionaires.
Fix the ballpark, hire a great manager, purchase stud players, build the farm system, the obvious things that need to be done to be a winner ~ if you can’t afford to do those things in baseball, you are not the guy to own a long term contending team.
