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Ben Clemens
8:57
I like it when pitcher get hits, it's cool. I dislike how often it just destroys an inning
Belowreplacementaccountname
8:57
Ian Anderson is Dansby Swanson's less attractive twin brother
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:57
People get mad at me, but I like both DH and non-DH and don't really care
Ben Clemens
8:57
Triplet, you mean. Don't forget about Charlie Culberson
desertfox9139
8:57
ive been a braves fan since 1990, so i am used to NL ball
Belowreplacementaccountname
8:58
And don't forget Randal Grichuk!
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:58
In Baltimore, we got TBS (Braves), WGN (Cubs), WWOR (Mets), and subscribed to Home Team Sports for the O's. SO I got a healthy dose of DH and non DH growing up
Quarantino Martinez
8:58
I'm also agnostic on pitchers hitting. The idea that you lose the DH if you take the starter out is interesting, though.
Gamer
8:58
Organist had Aqualung playing for Anderson. It did not help.
Ben Clemens
8:58
This is a great excuse to post my favorite Randal Grichuk-related content of all time
A parody AMA
Floyd
8:59
that watch party area didn’t even seem to have a large screen and didn’t look like they could see into the park. How are they watching?
Quarantino Martinez
8:59
HTS4Life
Luke Hooper
8:59
I've yet to see the screen in those shots, but there has to be a screen. A big one even!
Russ
9:00
I was always a NL no DH purist until the forbidden fruit was tasted last year. Completely changed my mind.
Luke Hooper
Ben Clemens
9:01
Yeah, I always *thought* I liked no DH because I'd remember particular pitcher hitting moments
Luke Hooper
9:01
Probably a good time to throw up that article from Marcus Kellis about how bad 9 hitters are in the AL.
Dan
9:01
All the discussion around the Braves chop made me realize that I haven't read anything from a Native American sports writer. Can you direct me to any Native American sports writers?
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:02
I'm not familiar with anything, honestly
I've seen people write about the Braves and stuff, but not other stuff.
Jordan
9:02
Losing your DH for pulling your starter sounds like something thought of by the anti-opener and anti-dh crowd
Ben Clemens
9:03
Garcia was booking it down the line there
Gamer
9:03
Organist with rock a bye baby for Garcia. He is a treasure.
Luke Hooper
9:03
Now "little teapot" for Altuve
Ben Clemens
9:04
Yeah the Braves organist is awesome. He did an interview on Effectively Wild once, actually
A long time ago, I think
FannyGraphy
9:04
It seems like I was reading a few years ago that the sinker wasn't that valuable a pitcher anymore, while also reading that the two seamer was on the rise. I also read that the 2 are very similar pitches.... Was I mistaken?
Ben Clemens
9:05
There's a big classification problem, and I'm not sure where I come down. MLB now classifies everything as a sinker, they don't register two-seamers
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:05
They're similar, but two seamer's classification in a lot of systems is with more horizontal movement tailing
Ben Clemens
9:05
That said.... sinkers/2s declined by quite a bit from their peak (the Pirates sinker era, let's call it)
9:06
But they've become more effective, because the pitchers with the worst sinkers just stopped throwing them
Anderson looking good!
Klubot3000
9:06
Pretty good interview out of McCullers. Can he replace Smoltz?
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:07
Wait, why is there another Home Alone?
Quarantino Martinez
9:07
Lance is a good first name for a broadcaster
99
9:07
it's a bummer we didn't get BA/Frenchy/Ron Darling for the WS, feels like a much more dynamic booth
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:07
BENETTI/PETRIELLO/SMOLTZ/UECKER/HAWK
Ben Clemens
9:08
I like Darling a lot more when he's in the Mets booth, I think he's more comfortable when he's done a ton of research on the players
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