According to his coaches in Japan when he starts hitting grounders more then it means he’s tired. He’s supposedly working on stamina this year for the long season.
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 10 November 2023 10:22 (seven months ago) link
btw he’s hit over 20 home runs several times in Japan, really think it’s being gassed to blamehttps://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=yoshid002mas
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 10 November 2023 10:40 (seven months ago) link
Going to the Pad's apparently!
― H.P, Saturday, 4 May 2024 02:19 (one month ago) link
The return, per source: Dillon Head, Woo Suk-Goo, Jakob Marsee, Nathan Martorella. On it: @CraigMish https://t.co/VnxhAkLdyT— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) May 4, 2024
― H.P, Saturday, 4 May 2024 02:20 (one month ago) link
does this make the marlins the first to (understandably) throw in the towel on the season?
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 May 2024 02:39 (one month ago) link
I think the A’s threw in the towel before the season started
― H.P, Saturday, 4 May 2024 02:48 (one month ago) link
Since the start of the season? Sure. Kinda wild to go from making the post-season to giving up at the start of May the following year
― H.P, Saturday, 4 May 2024 02:49 (one month ago) link
Can't seem to google an answer, but my guess is he could be the first guy ever to win batting titles with three different teams--lots of time.
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 May 2024 14:56 (one month ago) link
Probably even be difficult to find someone with a .320+ lifetime average about to play for his third team before he's 30.
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 May 2024 15:13 (one month ago) link
.320 is a pretty high bar tbf
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 4 May 2024 15:21 (one month ago) link
Only thing similar i can think of is that Soto could lead the league in BB for three different teams if he keeps it up this year. And he’s only 25!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 4 May 2024 15:33 (one month ago) link
Same basic point for both guys: even in the FA era, when you're that good, a third team this early in your career is (I think) relatively rare, or at least for non-pitchers.
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 May 2024 16:24 (one month ago) link
“The guy is probably the closest to Tony Gwynn that there is right now, so I’m looking forward to seeing him in the lineup. Only seven batting titles away [from passing Tony Gwynn],” Tatis said with a laugh. “That why I said the closest.”
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 May 2024 19:52 (one month ago) link
3-3 with a double!
― clemenza, Sunday, 5 May 2024 01:12 (one month ago) link
Answer to question I posed above: no, no one's ever won batting titles with three different teams.
https://www.mlb.com/news/luis-arraez-can-win-batting-title-with-third-team-in-2024
― clemenza, Friday, 10 May 2024 18:59 (one month ago) link
Didn't realize Bill Madlock won four batting titles--most by anyone not in the HOF. I'm trying to remember if he was thought of as a good-bet HOF'er back in '83, after he won his fourth. Where he stood going into his age-33 season: 1,557 hits, .317/.378/.459, OPS+ of 130, 34.3 WAR, one World Series title ('79 Pirates), MVP votes in seven seasons, and the four batting titles. I don't think he was...I know one place to check when I get home.
― clemenza, Friday, 10 May 2024 19:09 (one month ago) link
i remember Madlock as a kid because he was the first example i saw of a guy who was simply a professional *hitter*, in the respect that he didn't have much else to his game beyond that. i don't recall him being a guy anyone talked about as a legend beyond his batting titles, and i think once Boggs and Gwynn came up with their more well-rounded game and won numerous titles between them, he was kind of forgotten. i suppose maybe he's kind of a little bit Michael Young, a little bit Mark Grace, a really excellent player that no one seriously considered an all-timer but an of-his-timer.
― omar little, Friday, 10 May 2024 20:47 (one month ago) link
I was interested because batting titles were a bigger thing in the '70s and into the '80s, but you're right, Boggs and Gwynn (and later Ichiro) brought much better overall games (although, as I said on another thread, Madlock was a much better hitter than the superficially similar Bill Buckner). I wanted to check what James had to say while Madlock was still active, and he wasn't much of a fan--had him ranked 48th among third baseman in the revised Historical Abstract. "I never saw any other player who was as focused on batting championships as Bill Madlock." (Rose?) Wasn't meant as a compliment.
― clemenza, Friday, 10 May 2024 23:31 (one month ago) link
To be honest, I liked him better on the mariners
― H.P, Saturday, 11 May 2024 03:55 (one month ago) link
*marlins damnit lol
.419 as a Padre, up to .341 for the season (16 hits in last 6 games).
― clemenza, Friday, 24 May 2024 03:00 (three weeks ago) link
Can't remember where I read this - here? - that Arraez has one of the slowest bat speeds in the majors
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 May 2024 09:13 (three weeks ago) link
Yeah but his swing is also one of the shortest
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Friday, 24 May 2024 09:51 (three weeks ago) link
https://www.mlb.com/news/luis-arraez-bat-tracking-breakdown
xp
― 龜, Friday, 24 May 2024 11:13 (three weeks ago) link
Posnanski's whole column the other day was about this...The most beautiful compact swing I've ever seen was Paul Moitor's.
― clemenza, Friday, 24 May 2024 12:30 (three weeks ago) link
He still doesn't score many runs--31 in 226 PA this year--and he'll never be a great player as measured by WAR: doesn't walk enough, so-so fielder (it looks like), doesn't steal much, only 43 XBH/162 games. I just think he's a fun throwback and seemingly a wizard in terms of bat control. It's like he's somewhere between Bill Madlock and Tony Gwynn.
― clemenza, Friday, 24 May 2024 16:15 (three weeks ago) link
Or like Willians Astudillo, but good.
― H.P, Saturday, 25 May 2024 00:10 (three weeks ago) link