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― johnny crunch, Sunday, 30 July 2017 00:50 (eight years ago)
these guys needed a thread
creepy pic wish it didn't exist
― qualx, Sunday, 30 July 2017 20:08 (eight years ago)
now w melky again ^_^
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 30 July 2017 21:21 (eight years ago)
Moustakas just got the KC season home run record with his 37th, passing Steve Balboni! I'm glad the torch has been passed to another somewhat random dude.
― nomar, Thursday, 21 September 2017 02:04 (seven years ago)
Couldn't be more fitting that he hit his 36th on Sept. 1 and took 19 days to hit his next one...Was starting to think that Balboni might live to see another day.
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 September 2017 02:20 (seven years ago)
You might think that the HR record might be higher than (now) 37. KC I guess is always more of a pitchers park. I know John Mayberry put up some good home run numbers there back in the 70s.
― earlnash, Thursday, 21 September 2017 02:44 (seven years ago)
i had no idea moustakas was even healthy this year
― qualx, Thursday, 21 September 2017 03:58 (seven years ago)
just in time for someone to spend too much on him
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 September 2017 04:00 (seven years ago)
Three hours before first pitch, Royals catcher Salvador Perez grabs a couple of his wooden bats and carries them to the hitting cage behind the Kauffman Stadium home dugout. Over the ensuing half hour, Perez and several teammates cycle through their pregame routines, taking swings at live pitching.Except Perez’s batting practice regimen comes with a quirk. After hitting waist-high pitches down the middle of the plate, Perez asks his coaches to throw him pitches outside the strike zone.Off the plate. Above the hands. And most importantly, pitches just a foot off the ground.“I have to (practice) hitting it because I don’t take that pitch,” Perez said. “So I gotta learn how to hit it. If you’re not going to take it, at least learn how to hit the low pitch.”This year’s stats show that Perez has been swinging at a lot of those “bad balls” — more of them, in fact, than any other player in recorded history.Perez, thus far, has swung at 50.2 percent of pitches thrown to him that are outside the strike zone. It’s a career high ... and it’s much more than that. Baseball Info Solutions, which has compiled plate-discipline data since 2002, has never tracked a player who has swung at more than 49 percent of pitches outside the strike zone.
Except Perez’s batting practice regimen comes with a quirk. After hitting waist-high pitches down the middle of the plate, Perez asks his coaches to throw him pitches outside the strike zone.
Off the plate. Above the hands. And most importantly, pitches just a foot off the ground.
“I have to (practice) hitting it because I don’t take that pitch,” Perez said. “So I gotta learn how to hit it. If you’re not going to take it, at least learn how to hit the low pitch.”
This year’s stats show that Perez has been swinging at a lot of those “bad balls” — more of them, in fact, than any other player in recorded history.
Perez, thus far, has swung at 50.2 percent of pitches thrown to him that are outside the strike zone. It’s a career high ... and it’s much more than that. Baseball Info Solutions, which has compiled plate-discipline data since 2002, has never tracked a player who has swung at more than 49 percent of pitches outside the strike zone.
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 August 2018 19:44 (seven years ago)