Twelve games on the MAIN slate’s tonight with no Angels, Orioles, Pirates, Tigers, Nationals or Marlins. Early Slate thoughts Angels/Orioles should go over. Love the Orioles 1-4 hitters. Nationals/Marlins is likely your SP stack… Actually, it’s no doubt the SP stack on this slate Pirates/Tigers over Here’s my quick take on the Aaron Judge peeking over to the side incident last night. In case you missed it, in his 2nd AB the Toronto broadcast found it odd that he was peeking over to the side (towards the Yankee dugout/1B line) right before the pitch came and it immediately reminded me of this famous GIF So here’s the deal. The pitcher, Jay Jackson, has basically thrown only two pitches in his MLB time, 4-Seam Fastball and a Slider. He had thrown 5 straight Sliders to Judge before the peek over and subsequent 2nd HR of the night by Judge. So why in the world would there be thoughts about him “tipping” a pitch here if the guy is throwing the EXACT same pitch over and over, not to mention he’s a bullpen guy and only throws two pitches — one of which is a f’n 4-seam Fastball. Judge claims he was peeking over at his bench chirping and that is certainly plausible and I’ll buy it. But I also do not doubt that teams are trying to predict the pitch that a guy is throwing and in the case where it’s a reliever that the hitter certainly didn’t study for he might want some help from the bench of 1B coach about “what could be coming”. With the pitch clock in place now, Judge can’t step out and casually have time to look over at the bench, he’s gotta do it faster, and they gotta process things faster. Ask yourself this, if a team KNEW that with historical data a pitcher had NEVER (or less than 2%) thrown the same pitch 3 times in a row, wouldn’t that be HUGE information to know? I remember a scout in NFL talking about how in the early 2000’s there was an NFL Defensive Coordinator who had NEVER blized on consecutive plays all season long — and this was early December. That type of analytical information is MASSIVE to gain and what the analytics departments should be spending their time on, not “hey this guy hits X about 08% better than pitch Y, so we…...
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