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WBC Championship Chat: USA vs. Japan

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Wireless Joe Jackson

8:19

Trout has taken a lot of pretty fat first pitches for strikes the last few games.

Keita

8:19

How are the Diamondbacks going to stretch out Merrill Kelly for the opening week? He pitched less than 40 pitches…

dejajoue

8:19

The single aspect of FOX's coverage I find most grating is the repeated insistence on framing the competition in terms of how players are preparing for their club teams' regular season, the outcome of this winter's hot stove, etc. This is arguably the most important game between two national teams in the history of the sport, for one night I do not care how good of a fit Citizens Bank Park is for Trea Turner.

Dan Szymborski

8:19

It's going to be a natural given the audience

RTJ

8:21

Freeland is a, stereotypically speaking, perfect name for a USA pitcher

el tim

8:21

What would the Japan team's record be if they played in the AL Central?

Kyle Kishimoto

8:21

100 wins ez

Dan Szymborski

8:21

Togo's windup would drive me nuts trying to hit himn in MLB The Show. I dread facing Tyler Anderson

RTJ

8:22

going against my country here, but having Ohtani close out the 9th inning versus the top of the USA order would be compelling television

Dan Szymborski

8:22

Do you really need a scouting report for Schwarber? He looks like the player he is

8:23

I don't mean that in a mean way

Jay Jaffe

8:23

not a threat to bunt

Dan Szymborski

8:24

Schwarber walks up to the plate and you may have no idea who he is and you think "OK, he's going to hit a fastball 450 feet and then walk by the other dugout and eat my sandwich

Jay Jaffe

8:24

legit LOL here

Orioles2024

8:24

Right...biscuit eaters ain't devouring curveballs.

8:24

If we don't get Trout vs Ohtani tonight, we riot, yes?

Byron Denniston

8:25

More velo on this Togo guy and he’d have some ML potential

Dan Szymborski

8:25

He's kinda having a Fernando Rodney inning

Ben Schneider

8:25

The plot twist will be Trout pitching to Ohtani

Orioles2024

8:26

We all know Turner is amazing, but his WBC has been really amazing.

dejajoue

8:26

2013 WBC champion Fernando Rodney

Kyle Kishimoto

8:26

2013 all WBC team member Frenando Rodney!

Dan Szymborski

8:26

Nice save on that one

8:27

Go t-mobile!

Lzfreak

8:27

It seems like a lot higher percentage of Japanese pitchers throw splitters. I've always assumed it's taught more consistently there. Is that true?

Kyle Kishimoto

8:27

splitters made up about 10% of pitches thrown in NPB last year, in MLB it's 1-2%

Dan Szymborski

8:28

They do and they still have tumbling 1980s Dave Stewart forkballs

Byron Denniston

8:28

What a savage splitter

bernbp5

8:29

Isn't the NPB ball smaller, making spitters easier to throw?

Dan Szymborski

8:29

https://japaninja.pro/difference-between-american-baseball-and-japanes...

bosoxforlife

8:30

Togo's last splitter moved an amazing amount

Kyle Kishimoto

8:30

+2 ivb 14 hb while killing 1100 rpm, great stuff from togo

Jay Jaffe

8:31

stop talking to DeRosa while Shohei bats

Dan Szymborski

8:32

If Freeland gets hit hard, we become the Dominion of America

Joe

8:32

why would you do this when Ohtani is up?

Is the splitter the new market inefficiency?

Kyle Kishimoto

8:32

it's been theorized that more and more mlb pitchers will learn to throw one, a splitter doesn't require the natural wrist orientation that a good changeup does, which would be especially useful for supinators who throw sweepers

Jay Jaffe

8:32

the pitcher kept us a Freeland

small e

8:32

I don't mind most in-game interviews but manager ones can go away forever. They never ask or say anything interesting! It's pointless!

ROY Volpe

8:33

Does DeRosa get a MLB job from this?

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