You are viewing the chat in desktop mode. Click here to switch to mobile view.
X
FanGraphs Red Sox/Astros ALCS Game 3 Chat
powered byJotCast
Prev Page View Full Chat Next Page
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:22
You can't really put overlay Brendan Ryan's range above Jeter's when Jeter made a play that was hard for him
I mean, while you're watching
Jeremy
8:22
I didn't know E Rod used to throw righty! Switching throwing hands has gotta be rare, even at a young age.
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:22
I think he broke his arm or something. Lemme google it
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:23
Billy Wagner is one who changed because of a broken arm
AvatarDan Szymborski
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:23
Here's Kiké, who's hotter than hell these days. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/no-stranger-to-october-heroics-kike-hernan...
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:23
"The Boston Red Sox pitcher wasn’t always a left-handed pitcher. He was forced to change throwing arms after breaking his right arm and was in a cast for a year-and-a-half."
Geez, a year-and-a-half is a BROKEN arm.
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:24
broken-ass arm
Billy Wags had his broken twice in a row as a kid, so kind of similar in that regard
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:24
I switch-hit as a kid because I sucked about equally from both sides
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:24
that's one approach. or two.
Jake Cave
8:24
Over/under 9 combined innings by the two starters tonight?
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:25
under
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:25
I'm going to say over since Jay said under
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:25
The average so far this postseason is 4.07 innings per start, as I wrote in today's piece https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-incredible-shrinking-postseason-starte...
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:26
Over/Under: SP 9 IP Combined
Over (20% | 12 votes)
 
Under (58.3% | 35 votes)
 
Sideways (5% | 3 votes)
 
Topwise (1.7% | 1 vote)
 
Under 9 OUTS Boyo (3.3% | 2 votes)
 
My shoes hurt! (11.7% | 7 votes)
 
Total Votes: 60
sadman
8:26
Do we have any semblance of an iota of an idea how hot streaks like kiké's happen?
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:27
He's made some mechanical changes — moving closer to the plate is the big one — and I don't think opposing teams have taken them seriously or keyed upon him. You'd think they'd adjust their approaches.
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:26
You need Kevin for the sensical polls.
Jeremy
8:26
Wait, what? How can a broken arm put you in a cast for 18 MONTHS? My god, that must've been awful.
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:27
I would've thought that by a year or so, your arm was going to do as much healing as was ever going to happen
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:27
Probably had something to do with the growth plates
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:28
Like the time I slice my right foot with a piece of glass from my fourth toe to the side and down the heel. I got feeling slowly back for fourth toe and *most* of pinky toe for a year but then it kinda stopped after that
8:29
Well, that was efficient
Hugh Duffy
8:30
There aren't many switch hitters that don't have a dominant side, so you're in rare company Dan.
kyle
8:30
Fun fact: Before Kiké became a fan favorite in LA/BOS, he was one of the few bright spots on the 2014 Astros.
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:31
and yet they traded him to the Marlins on July 31. He played just 24 games for Houston, all of them in July!
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:30
You have to be competent at two things to be obviously better at something than the other!
Jake Cave
8:30
Did you start pitching with your big toe?
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:30
I was like 37!
8:31
Boy my sister was pissed I didn't get stitches and just tied the whole foot tight with a sock tourniquet
Chuck H
8:31
Not to come right out of the chute as a negative nelly, but is anyone else as annoyed as I how they are trying to rename moonshots as “moon blasts” so Baseball can maximize their crypto revenue?
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:32
Martin
8:31
I throw left handed but bat right handed because my childhood cricket coach refused to believe left handedness was a real thing
Jeremy
8:31
Here in Canada we just got a Blue Jays commercial, which feels like it would just make Jays fans sad by reminding them that they didn't quite make the playoffs and the Red Sox did.
kyle
8:32
What happens in this game may change it, but do you have a feel for how Houston sets up the pitching tomorrow? Greinke has been pretty cooked second half, but he did deliver one of the guttiest performances of the post-season last year.
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:32
I'm not sure Houston truly knows what they're doing yet
8:33
Beautiful inning for Rodriguez
Connecting…