Basically what the title says. I am from Denmark, know very little about baseball except the basic rules and that the Rockies are awesome.
In Denmark nobody cares about baseball, so I am looking for someone to talk too. Will you talk with me?
Basically what the title says. I am from Denmark, know very little about baseball except the basic rules and that the Rockies are awesome.
In Denmark nobody cares about baseball, so I am looking for someone to talk too. Will you talk with me?
In the live swing you can get a broad impression of the swing but mostly it’s from replays, especially in slow-mo, cause yeah these guys can swing it crazy fast!
Haha so the count matters A LOT in an at bat. 0 balls, 2 strikes (0-2) is a pitchers count because the pitcher only needs to throw one more strike to get the batter out. Thus the batter can’t really swing for the fences bc that has a high chance of missing AND they have to be both aggressive, bc they don’t want to get struck out looking, but also selective bc they don’t want to get struck out swinging. The pitcher has many mind games available in a pitchers count. A 2 ball, 0 strikes count (2-0) on the other hand is a hitters count bc they can, for example, swing for the fences and even if they miss the count is still in their favor (2-1).
Thus, a full count (3-2) is a pitchers count bc they have all the mind games available, tho it’s slightly better for the batter than a 0-2 bc if the pitcher misses they get a walk.
However, in this situation the batter doesn’t really want to walk because that would not advance the runner and it would open up the possibility of a double play ending the inning as it creates a force out at second and at first for the next batter.
Does that make more sense?
That makes total sense ! And now your previous comment also makes sense ! I really appreciate you taking the time to explain all of this to me :)
But wouldn’t it be just as difficult to hit a high ball as just a clean ball ? I mean if you are so good as to being able to choose your hit, you might as well choose to hit it clean into the and get a run out of it as well ?
Also I heard the Red Sox haven’t signed anyone yet in this round as the only team. What’s up with that ?
Yay I’m glad! Of course :)
It opens up options more than anything else. A hitter can be trying for a high ball, and if it’s a hit, yay, but if it’s just a fly out, also yay bc that gets the man on third home. But yes 100% if you are able to get a hit that is better than a sac fly.
Hmmm the Red Sox trade decisions baffle me honestly. We are (hopefully) trying very hard to resign Bregman who will not be cheap, so maybe we are saving for him?? And our biggest weakness last year (besides the errors) was starting pitching. I know we picked up some pitchers already (Sonny Gray being the most notable) so perhaps John Henry has decided he is done spending (wouldn’t put it past him).
Also mostly unrelated and probably not much to discuss with this play lol but it’s so fun I had to share https://youtu.be/AelWuluKiJQ
lol what a catch. Sucks to be a dodger in that case :p I’m sure they could almost taste it :p
And sure I get it, it is better to have two possible positive outputs. I’m sure I underestimate how easy (read hard) it is to actually hit the ball, for not to speak of making any specific kind of hit.
Yeah don’t know what to make of it either. Just heard it on a podcast and thought it was weird. But I hope you’re right.
We just signed Michael Lorenzen. Read he was a former Red. You know him ?
Ikr! Good lol. I’m not a fan of the dodgers honestly bc it feels like they are trying to buy wins. Which is what everyone is doing but idk they have pulled so many tricks that it just feels kinda scummy.
Yeah I read somewhere that hitting a baseball is one of the hardest acts in professional sports. Seems hard to measure that but I’d lowkey believe it.
Oo I don’t know him. I googled him tho and he seems like a good pick up! Do the Rockies have a pitching problem as well?
Personally I don’t have anything for or against the Dodgers. But I do get the sentiment of not liking big money. Like when some Russian oligarch buys a soccer team or an oil sheik buys a pro cycling team and just poors billions into it. It feels scummy af.
Seems hard to measure yeah, and buy what matrix do you measure it ? Racing up a mountain is also pretty hard :p
I also misread. He used to be a Reds, which incidentally is not the same as Red Sox at all :p but yes, yes we do have a very big pitching problem. Our best starting pitcher has an ERA of like 5 :/
Ah yes the classic lol the Red Sox shorten to the Sox generally to avoid this confusion and the White Sox just don’t get a nickname lol bc they certainly can’t be the Whites!
Oof a 5 is not ideal! Well 🤞 this guy helps bring that up!
A bunch of messages ago you mentioned playing baseball, was that when you were a kid or more recent? Does Denmark have little league baseball?
Dang, just learned Bregman went to the Cubs :/
Haha, I feel like the Whites would create a lot of troubles for them. Imagine being a proud fan :|
Well if he can bring them up just a little bit, so they maybe don’t end up the worst. Get a little momento going, bag a few good picks going forward. Who knows what might happen, because as you said Coors Field have some advantages that could be exploited, if you play to them. – Oh! Here is a cool facts that I forgot about, because of the low humidity in Denver, because of the elevation, the balls have to be kept in humidified rooms, so they behave like balls in the rest of the league.
Our biggest problem though is that the owner basically sees the organisation as a glorified merch shop, because fans still go to the matches. So the owner doesn’t really get a big economic penalty for not giving a shit.
Yeah no, haha, I meant on my phone :P have been playing MLB Rivals a bit and unlicensed baseball games as a kid. And no minor league, there is a total of four baseball clubs and one softball club in Denmark. So yeah, haha, not much to work with.
And sorry about Bregman, will we see you in the bottom fighting for the second to last spot now :P ?
Indeed! Some momentum could change the whole game! You just need a rally but on like a franchise level lol
Oooo I had no idea, that’s so interesting!! There is so much infrastructure around the consistency of the balls it’s crazy. Like they have to rub them down with special mud bc the balls right out of the factory are too slippery and too white. But the mud is a big secret! It comes out of some river bed in New Jersey but it’s like MLB secret #1 where that is. And they haven’t been able to replicate it in a lab so here we are, still using the magic NJ mud.
Oof an uninterested owner is the worst cause there really isn’t anything anyone can do :/ again with the problem of rich people
Hahaha that makes more sense. Honestly that’s kinda more than I was expecting! You could start a pickup league in the street like the days of yore lol. Are you in Copenhagen? (Are there other cities in Denmark lol?) Surely city streets are wide enough, right ;p
You might lol this definitely leaves us with a bit of an infielder problem in that we don’t quite have enough guys and if one were to get injured………. But ‘sources’ say we are pivoting to try and get Bichette (free agent from the Jays). Im not hopeful there tho bc he’s probably looking for a huge contract and the Sox just don’t seem to be giving those out.