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Matt
8:32
Jay, re: Sale FB Velo: Have you isolated late-season FB velo? Not sure if it makes a difference, but have to feel that late-season baseline is different than, say, July.
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:32
From August onward — the point when his attendance was erratic — his average first-inning velo was 94.3 mph http://www.brooksbaseball.net/velo.php?player=519242&b_hand=-1&gFilt=&...
5 Run Homer
8:33
Did Joe Buck just call steal a base steal a taco a “rich tradition”?
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:33
It made him richer.
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:33
Steal a base, steal a taco seems to be the part of baseball that Buck is the most interested in and the part for which he can give the most detailed explanation.
Guest
8:34
It worries the hell out of me that the Kershaw "postseason failure" narrative hinges on the success of a sub-optimal Kershaw pitching.
Guy Smiley
8:34
Free tacos all around. Little reported but Sale's trip to the hospital was from a bad Locos Taco.  Yes, he's underpaid but way too frugal.
Matt
8:35
Jay - Re Puig's defense: I don't watch much, but feel like he's got a phenomenal arm. Is his problem mostly mental? He's physically, a good defender, right?
Jeff Sullivan
8:35
2-0 Red Sox. Benintendi lost his helmet before he'd even taken a third step off second base
5 Run Homer
8:35
This isn’t going super great for the Dodgers, IMO
Tyler
8:35
JD almost killed Benny
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:36
powerful arm but not as accurate as it once was. Good speed, plays the foul wall pretty well but isn't great at leaping for balls and does some dumb air-mail throws every time, it seems
Raymond
8:36
Mookie should've fouled out, then maybe should''ve gotten caught stealing, and then benny gets a free second base on puigs throw. Sloppy from the dodgers in the first
Jeff Sullivan
8:36
Straight to Kershaw's playoff ERA!
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:36
"He almost clipped...uh...his...teammate coming off second!"
Cam
8:37
Puig has a great arm. Puig also knows he has a great arm, which makes him throw the ball to stupid places, thinking he will do better.
Jeff Sullivan
8:38
Just a magnificent pickoff from Kershaw. You could see that one coming
Except that I guess Martinez couldn't
Guy Smiley
8:38
Whatever the outcome, these are two of the best uniforms in all of sports.
Matt
8:38
Expanding on my Puig question - I feel I might overrate "arm" as a defensive tool in the OF. Without getting too crazy about details, if the major categories are "arm", "jump", "path" and "decision" - which of those four categories would be most over indexed?
Ohtani Kitean
8:40
Balk!!!!!!!!!!!!
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:40
I hate balks. I'm 40 and been watching baseball nonstop for 35 years and I still can't remember all the things that are balks.
Mister Puppy
8:40
I can see Cardinal fans on Twitter gleaming in delight at Kershaw's struggles
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:40
when you're facing your third straight playoff-free October and cannibalism is the alternative, i guess that's what you tell yourself?
Guest
8:41
Hope Martinez yelled LEEEEEROOOOOOY JEEEEENKIIIIIINS there.
Dystopian Future
8:41
Look, Kershaw's "awful in the playoffs" narrative is a joke. But it's still important to note that all 3 of those hits were over 100MPH. It's not like he's ridiculously unlucky, he IS getting hit hard.
Jeff Sullivan
8:42
The bad luck was mostly just Freese overrunning Betts' foul pop
Guy Smiley
8:43
Quick sidebar:  What are the odds, with the loaded free agent class coming, that we see another freeze out like last winter?
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:43
I have heard some concern, though nobody who would go on the record.
The top of the market won't help the ordinary guys.
Jeff Sullivan
8:43
The mid-market players will have the same experience. The actual great players will not
8:44
The middle market will have to adjust because teams will never offer those contracts anymore
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:44
See Eduardo Escobar in Arizona.
Cam
8:45
Does there come a point where we start to consider the possibility, that Kershaw does actually suck in the playoffs? We'll see how today shakes out, but it becomes more and more difficult to fight the narrative each time.
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:46
Has he pitched to his regular season level in the postseason consistenty? No. But compare his postseason numbers and start-by-start log to David Price, for example, and get back to me.
Jeff Sullivan
8:46
Regular season Kershaw: 21% K-BB
Playoff Kershaw: 20% K-BB
8:47
(Against superior hitters, on average)
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:47
AHA! Slacking in October.
Jeff Sullivan
8:47
The nerve!
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