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Cardinals pitching has certainly sucked big time since then. Maybe fans of most teams feel that way, I don’t know.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
am i the only one that thinks it’s majorly fuckin weird that they’re coming down like a mountain on sunscreen but a literal ROSIN BAG is standard equipment on every major league mound? maybe make the rosin a wee bit stickier? or use tacky baseballs like in japan? surely fine control is a good thing?? and then move the rubber back a foot
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
i think it's totally reasonable that they come down on spider tack, but they have no good way of drawing the line between that and, say, sunscreen. but doing it in the middle of the season is a joke, and these post-inning inspections look ridiculous.
feel like this is another unintended consequence of statcast -- pitchers have always been able to do things with nicks or spit or whatever, but until like five years ago i don't think many people specifically correlated RPM with movement. and no matter what whitey ford and gaylord perry were using, they were still only throwing 85 -- today the stuff gives pitchers unearned command at 98. if pitchers were *really* worried about losing control and beaning someone, they could always ease off the gas . . . but no one wants to do that!
another unintended consequence: what if gerrit cole is merely an above-average pitcher without the stuff? the yankees still owe him $250m. as with robot umps making pitch-framing obsolete, suddenly a whole bunch of players have to be revalued on the fly
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link