September 17, 2024 • 27 mins
Jomboy is going through the topics that stuck out most to him around MLB this week! Luis Arraez finally struck out, Gleveland manager Stephen Vogt cried, and who are the fielders that dive the most?
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0:46 How did Luis Arraez strikeout?
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14:59 - Fielders that dive a lot
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to Jimmy's Three Things. Thank you very
much for tuning in. Today, we got Luis Rise striking
out for the first time in a long time. How'd
that happen? Good pitch, bad pitch? Good at bat, bad
at bat. We got guardians tears vote just crying in
his postgame and I love it. And then I'm gonna
(00:20):
hunt for the outfielders that have dove on routine plays
the most this season. As always, jimmy S Three Things
is the production of Dan Patrick Production, Shamboy Media and
Workhouse Media. Thank you for tuning in. I'm gonna catch
my breath, grab this squashy baseball, take us in my coffee,
then we'll get going. All right, Yeah, big news, big news.
(00:47):
Luis Rise struck out. He had gone one hundred and
forty one played appearances without a strikeout. That is a
stretch of thirty games, if you're curious. His last strikeout
came on August tenth against the Miami Marlins, his old
squad they got the scouting report report and then September sixteenth.
(01:12):
In that stretch, he had a three to ninety four
batting average, a four to thirty four on base four
to sixty five, sucking for an eight to ninety eight
ops and seven walks, so playing pretty good ball. Let's
take a look at the pitch sequence that Aragati got
(01:37):
him with. I have it here, second at bat in
the second inning against Atagette, and he's going to open
him up with a ball. A ball. Okay, here's the
first pitch. It is a curveball up and away. He
got him to swing and miss on his curveball in
the first at bat of the game. Going for it
(01:58):
here or he's trying to backdoor the curve. I don't know,
kind of a nothing pitch looks like it might even
just slip out of his hands. The next pitch is
a one to oh, and that's a fastball outside in
her eyes. Look at his reaction. Oh nope, don't want
it now. I had a realization while I was making
this video, and I was searching tons of her eyes, numbers,
looking in to see if I can find anything of interest.
(02:20):
And my realization was he's such a react hitter. Like
his his his approach is not to hit with power,
it's to fight off pitches in the zone and put
him in play. So can you even sequence against guys
like that. The answer is yes, like subliminately. But he's
not going up there and hunting for a pitch, really,
(02:42):
he's he's all reaction. Uh maybe he's hunting for an area.
But I think he hates walking. He likes when the
ball play that whatever you throw, he's gonna try and
swing in it unless he recognizes at a ball. So
I was like, does tunneling even work anyway? He's got
a two to oh here, and they're not gonna go
two oh fastball. They're gonna two to zero. Cutter a
(03:03):
little high gets the strike call. Arise doesn't like that.
Here's the side by side of it if you want
to see. I think I think it's a strike. It's
at the letters. I mean, I don't know is that
called a strike these days? Used to be like they
would call it at the belt. Maybe that's high. He's
(03:23):
kind of crouched down. Maybe that changed the umpire's opinion
of him. So you got a two to one now
and he just took a cutter looking. So what do
the Astros go with? They go with a nice four
seam fastball and beats him to the spot in the
zone according to the score bug. But I think that
was in the zone, just a heater, and I found
(03:46):
a lot of pitches in that spot. I went on,
I'll tell you about that in a second. Let's finish
that at bat off of that too too. He's got
a ball to spare, and Arise does not like walking,
and he swings that pitches out of the zone, So
I feel like you have to throw pitches out of
the zone. Here to two they go another fastball and
it is more out of the zone and our eyes
(04:07):
is jumping, jumping and reaching to fend it off. So actually,
I really like that pitch. You're still too too, so
you have more room to go out of the zone.
Two two here and he spikes that one. I don't
know what that was, cutter maybe or.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Change.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I don't know what that is. I'm not that familiar
with aragety stuff. Now it's three two, I'd still throw
a pitch out of the zone. Our eyes hates walking.
He likes swinging three to two pitches to Luis or
Eyes out of the zone this season and he has
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walked nine times in twenty two played appearances. So that's
a four fifty five on base percentage. There must be
a hit by pitching there as well. Let's see, so
he's taken it for a ball one two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine times and then he got hit by pitch once,
(05:06):
so that helps. That helps it. But then one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
eleven times he got out of the ball and play,
and then one two, three, four, five six times he
just fouled it back and you got to redo it.
He never got a hit on a ball out of
the zone and he only took it for ball four
one two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine out
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of twenty seven times. So at this point, I'm still
calling for a pitch out of the zone, even though
it's three to two, even though that loads the bases.
I know it's crazy. You got to trust your pitcher too,
and he's got trust his stuff. But they go cutter high,
the same pitch that he kind of took two to
oh and didn't recognize. He recognizes that one fights it back. Okay,
(05:50):
moving on, and now you're three to two, and again
I think you can kind of tease him out of
the zone. Last time they went cutter two oh, it
was a strike. Then they went to the fastball, so
I think that's the same sequence here cut her and
then yeah, just straight heater again beats him to the spot.
Look at her eyes animated. At bat he's a little
late on that, crouches down and runs across like he's
(06:13):
sneaking around three to two again, And I wouldn't be
in the zone here, and they choose not to be
in the zone, which I think is smart. And they
go curveball down and in and get some which is
a pitch you can get a rise with if it's
real tight, and reel in there and there's two strikes
and you can see the fryer. H look at that, Oh,
(06:36):
just devastated, hands on the head. And then to the left,
kind of interesting, you have this dad taking a picture
of his daughter as the pitch is coming. Then she
eats popcorn, and now he's filming here eating popcorn. And
(06:58):
they missed everything for that good at bat and Ari
strikes out his next at bat, they open up curveball
and he has a nice hit the opposite way. So
he was one for three off that picture with like
a ground out and then that strikeout, Ariz struck out.
I was all up in Ariz scouting reports trying to
figure out like Is there a spot that he just
(07:19):
can't hit that like tortures him. Is there a height
of a pitcher. I was looking at vertical release point,
Horizon's reliesport, just hunting and searching if I could find
anything that had enough correlation to present it to you, Like, hey,
if you got a picture with this release point and
this spin rate and he can place the ball in
this four inch square of the zone, you're gonna get
(07:41):
Luisa riisea swinging miss. I couldn't find anything. I got
close to finding stuff, but then it was like, nah,
this isn't enough to present to anyone. So there was
a lot of wasted searching, but in not a way.
Sometimes you'd get good stuff out of that stuff. Anyway,
moving on, Uh, Steven Vote got emotional talking about his
(08:05):
team and his players cheering each other on, and I'm
gonna play the clip for you.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I mean so happy for him.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
So the context is they had a big home run
in the bottom of the eighth inning to take the lead.
Guardians are just playing great, They're in a close game.
Look out and he's talking about it.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Everybody dreams of hitting that big home run or the
big bass hit in the Major leagues to help your
team win a game, and for him to hit a
go ahead home run at the bottom of the eighth,
that's a moment you dream up from the time you're
three to four years old. Maybe it's a walk off
in your dreams, but that type of a big hit
for your team. Everyone who grows up wanting to play
baseball has pretended that moment has happened from the time
(08:49):
they could walk and loved baseball. And the smile on
his face looking back at our dugout, that was incredible.
But my favorite part was Naylor at second base standing
there watching it. He waiting for him at home plate
with a smile on his face. You know, that's the
kind of stuff that this team does.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Get a little emotional. I mean, you're proud of the
romantic glint. I love these guys.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
There's so much fun to watch. They love each other.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
They work hard.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
That was about s all night, and to see two
teammates come together like that, that's powerful.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I absolutely love it. I mean I grew up. My
mom used to use Joe Torre as an example for
why to tell me like men men can cry like
to rid any toxic masculinity. Men don't cry. That might
have been penetrating my brain from outside sources. My mom
(09:50):
would look at Joe Tory and his postgame press conferences, say, see, Jim,
a real man can show his emotions and cry. And
I'm a big cryer. Sometimes I'll get choked up at stuff.
But I just love that he's getting choked up, as
he explains, not at the result, but of the camaraderie
and the culture, because I'm sure he feels like he
(10:16):
is building that part of that, supplying that that's what
he wants to see. He wants to see them cheering
each other on. And he's saying the home run was great,
but what Nailer. The way his teammate reacted to him
and celebrated him was what really got me going. Let's
watch the home run?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Where do what?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I have the highlights here? It is absolute bomb of
a home run.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I don't bring up Kyle Man.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
You see this. Hold on, watch this. This is something
that batters do now. And for a while was like,
what are they looking at? Watch his eyes? See those
eyes glance over that's uh pitchclock. So he's trying to
figure out, okay, is this picture? How many times as
he got left. But if you watch when they do
these close up shots at batters in baseball now, a
(11:04):
lot of times they do that. The one in Milwaukee
is like really high to the right, so sometimes you
see them like really looking up there, and I'm like,
what are they looking at? Then I asked a player
and they was like, that's the pitch clock.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I was like, oh, oh yeah, okay, Kyle Manto one
down the pitch.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Oh my goodness, that fan. Sorry to cut the home
run off, you said, fan, I'm gonna turn the volume
down and play it in slow mo. This fan jumps
to catch this. Did you just fall right on his
great camera work, by the way. Okay, so the fan
(11:50):
jumps up, I think he misses it, totally bodies that
other fan and then falls down. Damn. Good effort. Good effort,
But don't hurt people. Don't be jumping around all reckless
and hurting people. Let's go back. I'll play it again,
uninterrupted audio of the call and the home run. It's
just it's a bomb.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Kyle Man one down the pitch, swung on.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Hit high, hit deep to.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Majistic two run bombed all right by Kyle Man sotle
off Minnesota's best Griffin Jacks and the Twins bullpen has
himploded again.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Okay, so here I'll turn their volume down. Here's the
shot of Naylor celebrating that he referenced, Oh it was quick,
and then that's him waiting at home. Played for him.
I'm sure he's celebrated more at a second it just
cuts off and then yet so that's what got him
(12:56):
fired up. Oh he's not. He's emotional in a different way.
But yeah, I just it's awesome, you know I I
would love you'd love a manager like that. And to
go from Tito to now vote it seems like they
got the same sentiment going on. But man, other people's
joy is some of the more powerful stuff going on,
(13:19):
which is why it's so nice to be happy right
in like the corniest way, like spreading happiness, and people
just like kind of like look at that as stupid,
but yeah, man, happy people are better to be around.
It makes sense. And if you can foster a culture
of that and rid and where you really root for
each other. For me, For me, we have our warehouse
(13:44):
games and that's you know, we built that from scratch,
and it's we are the mood. Whatever we have that
every time one of our tournaments ends and someone wins
that hasn't won before, uh huh, or like you know,
we got guys that kind of get shipped from the
comments section at times, and then if they have a
(14:06):
big moment and win, like when Zoe became like a
beast and then he won, uh, and he's celebrating, like
it's like like really celebrating. I'll be in the corner
of that dog pile of tearing up, not like crying,
but like getting MISTI had because I'm like, what is this?
What happened? We have such a good community and culture
and like support in the warehouse, like Jolly gets cheers
(14:27):
and then uh, usually I'm on the wrong end of it,
so I'm upset because I get walked off on. But
then I am very happy for the people, so I
get voids looking vote vote not void is looking on like, uh,
he's taking some pride because I'm sure he feels like
he is uh building that culture, which is he is
(14:48):
proud of cool moment. Never reject happy tears. Those are
the best. Now we'll get a little more brutal. I
I wanted to find outfielders that I want to find
like hot dogs. But that's not going to be the
exact example. So I'm using inside Edge. They have a
(15:10):
really awesome system back end. And what I did was
I toggled on defensive plays fly balls or line drives
to the outfield that are tagged as ninety to one
hundred percent likely to be made, so they're certain they
call these plays certain like they will be made. It
would be an error if they don't. And then I
(15:32):
toggled on the fielder dove. Okay, so which fielders are
leaving their feet the most on routine plays. The left
fielder that is in here the most is rarely. So
(15:55):
let's see hangs up enough, but diving catch by Luke Raley.
All right, so there was one by Luke Rayley. Let's
let's watch it again. If this hangs up and yeah,
I mean he kind of like stutter steps because he's
got trying to get a read on it and then
(16:15):
goes down. Okay, I'm not terribly mad at you, Luke.
Let's see the next Railey one hot shot? Well, what
is that cat?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Blind left field?
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Raley comes in and he plases out and he makes
the cat.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
That one's pretty bad. That's just a that's just a ball. Uh,
he like stayed back on it. Here's the third Railey one.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
You don't want to swing at a fly ball to
left but in the ballpark or Rayley charge and.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Charge and leave his feet and make a sliding catch.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, so that's just a really like an awful route, right.
I mean he he kind of did banana peel route,
but he's just circling it. He's just it looks like
he's just playing a very cautious he trusted himself to
slide and catch it, but not uh not to read it.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Let's see the Randy one. See if there's any more
egregious ones in uh left field? I mean okay, yes,
no need veerling. Oh so these are all just they're
just getting wobbled on a line drive to left and
(17:34):
then just going down. Oh this one's a little different.
Oof call Nick. Oh he got a real bad jump
on it and then had to come in. He's mad
at himself. He's getting claps, but he's mad at himself.
That's the Clint Fraser special right there, bad read bad route,
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diving play clap Verdugo. Let's see Dugo's got one. Yeah,
same thing, just all right. Line drives really, Uh, Happer,
Happer's got a lot of non routine plays this year
in love field slicing. Yeah, that's not a dive. I
(18:22):
guess it's a slide. He went to the ground. That
one's not that agreed. The Randy one, I think was
the worst. Let's change this to centerfielders, because the best
center fielders are just fast and they they don't dive
that much, to be honest, or you know, they get
they don't dive on easy balls at all. Let's say
(18:42):
there's only fifteen of these. See if we got any
repeat names. I see Scott on here twice. I see
Bader on here twice. I see Jazz Chisholm on here twice,
Freeman twice. You know what, I'll just uh, We'll just
watch him in order uninterrupted.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
He flies at the center and right there's nemo if
the dive though, and.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
He makes the cast Froze line drive Knuckler. Seems like
that's the common.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
With the diving grab to deny Devers, and in the inning.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
That seems like the common theme.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
He Smith smacks the ball the right centerfield the Luca Oh, really,
that looked like he needed to do that that looked
like he needed to dive.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Oh no, let's see for one. I mean it sounds
like a gun shot.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Sitterfield the Luca with a diving.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Cas just because he took that like little stutter step.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Without diving. Care It built up to eighty eighty five pitches.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
And then this one's Rafaela in center. Yeah, he ran
too far back and then came forward. Got that's not
fooling anyone. Like anyone that watches that in live time
isn't like, Oh, nice diving play. That's a nice play,
makes a great catch. He's just playing real deep. A smile,
Victor clapping. Okay, next one out of you know slider. Wow,
(20:19):
Bader was playing so deep. Oh and he dropped it.
Damn he was playing so deep.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Has already seen seven. There are some wows we're talking
about right there in the air to center field and
the catch.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Hell was that.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
In the air to center field?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
That looks like a really soft grass. That's something that
they don't talk about in baseball that much at all.
Interesting little factoid for you. I was talking to a
baseball player ex baseball player, and I showed him. I
showed them the chart I did on things you missed
a while ago about the right spot stat that I
(21:04):
was drafting up, and one I showed it was a
couple ex players. I showed him how the Rays were
the worst at defensive positioning and he was like, that
tracks up. I know some guys over there that I've
always complained, like, dude, they got me in the wrong spot.
Thought that was interesting. And then another one of the
X players, I said that the Padres infield graded out
(21:27):
the worst in the infield positioning on hot shot ground balls,
and the Yankees graded out pretty good. And he said,
I bet the grass matters way more there than you
would know, Like the soft infields slow the ball down.
He's like in San Diego that that infield grass is thin.
And I was like, interesting, because in cricket that's talked
(21:48):
about so much. The speed of the grass balls will
travel fast, not fast. Now. I remember, you know, in
the eighties when everyone was playing on cement and the
AstroTurf and Pete Rose and everyone got all those hits,
they talked to about how fast it was. But they
don't really talk about that that much anymore. And this
turf looks so spongy. Here, looks like he can't get
his footing. Also, just a bizarre play. Anyway, Let's keep
(22:11):
watching center fielders dive for routine plays deep into this game.
That's it harder. Bader's playing crazy center field. I mean again,
just a wrong read the other one he was playing
so deep, Lizardo Abrams, how is this? Oh my god,
(22:35):
they're playing so jeeps to Wow, there's jazz when you're
that fast and athletic. Look how deep he's playing. This
is why doubles don't exist anymore. That's crazy. Deep means
four oh two to dead center. So Jazz runs all
(22:57):
the way in and makes a nice play. It's a
product of positioning over anything else.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I don't know where that came from.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Fred Rodgers, mister Rogers, this one into center field, coming
on quickly Freeman and he goes into a dive to
make the case. I don't know. I was up there
for a while, so it seems to or we got more.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Something different, or try to do too much because he's
hitting up in the order. Since this one long way
to center, Pastro is still doing back.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
What makes the still doing that is that is I
wouldn't call this hot dog in it, because that's not
getting you on any highlight reels unnecessarily, But what the
hell is that?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Then?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
No need for that? What was that.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Far for assessment?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Right?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
A two game bottom of the eighth curveball put in play.
Jazz again.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Lost his balance but still made the catch.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
So he did a hand motion there that say that
just dipped on him? I guess off the end of
the bad whoa, that was awesome? What is that? Just
a bad read man? It seems like they're playing so
deep that sometimes these miss hit balls short are just
tough for them. Line to center, yeah, that's normal. That's
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just a way to secure that ball when there it comes.
That was a fastball, but it's lined to center and
oh boy, geez ran too far and then it came in. Damn.
I wonder if there's a sense of outfielders moving around
(24:45):
too much that they're messing up their lines, or am
I just watching the the off bad play? Scott frozen again. Okay,
let's go to right field. Soto's got O'Neil's got one, Springer, Rooker, Garcia, Cheerio, Barrio, Triolo, Sodo,
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Goodman de Lucas and Tandeer Joe. Let's watch Soto, Sodo's
made zero non routine plays this.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Year line to Sotos. He goes down and makes the play.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Oh in the rain, diving in the pouring rain. This
you know the rain allows more diving is just fun?
What do we got? What the hell's going on? Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I mean that scared me. Now we're even watching geez,
who's this triolo?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Right? Soon? Drops it? Or did he get it?
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Let's sit.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
That ball is just putting no man's land? How is that?
I don't know if I agree. I know it's just numbers,
but I don't know if I agree with that. It's
like likely to be made the balls and Nomans.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Does have five saves on the slice it.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Ooh, twisted them up. Nice play, nice recovery. He was
pumped about it. Twisted him up in the right and
cheery on old a stutter stepping going on. It's a
lot of those hardliners.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Right, and it's gonna be cut.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
You can just catch that?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
What do I known?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Long way to go for Rooker?
Speaker 4 (26:27):
He slides it makes the catch it will I.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Wonder if that's a way to secure your stop your
momentum so you can slide and have the closer throat
a second. I don't know the players that have made
the most dives diving plays Reynolds thirteen, Calnick eleven, Hap eleven,
Nimo eleven, Gordon eleven, Verdugo ten. That's in left field.
In center field you got Rojas with sixteen, Isabel with fifteen,
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Jazz with fifteen, Doyle with thirteen, And in right field
the most dives is Santan dah with sixteen, Spring with fifteen,
Garcie with seventeen. Routine plays made this year, leading is
Michael Siani, then he and happed in Dalton varshow Jose Seri,
who's on the Juan Soto zero non routine plays made
(27:13):
this year? According to Inside Edge, isa ikf Isaiah is
Jesus Isaiah Kiner phileff I couldn't talk for a little bit,
only one out of forty chances. That's not good. And
Nolan Gorman won out of thirty two, with Merrifield, Heno
Suarez two out of thirty eight. Interesting stuff, Interesting stuff.
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Hello, and welcome to Jimmy's Three Things. Thank you very
much for tuning in. Today, we got Luis Rise striking
out for the first time in a long time. How'd
that happen? Good pitch, bad pitch? Good at bat, bad
at bat. We got guardians tears vote just crying in
his postgame and I love it. And then I'm gonna
(00:20):
hunt for the outfielders that have dove on routine plays
the most this season. As always, jimmy S Three Things
is the production of Dan Patrick Production, Shamboy Media and
Workhouse Media. Thank you for tuning in. I'm gonna catch
my breath, grab this squashy baseball, take us in my coffee,
then we'll get going. All right, Yeah, big news, big news.
(00:47):
Luis Rise struck out. He had gone one hundred and
forty one played appearances without a strikeout. That is a
stretch of thirty games, if you're curious. His last strikeout
came on August tenth against the Miami Marlins, his old
squad they got the scouting report report and then September sixteenth.
(01:12):
In that stretch, he had a three to ninety four
batting average, a four to thirty four on base four
to sixty five, sucking for an eight to ninety eight
ops and seven walks, so playing pretty good ball. Let's
take a look at the pitch sequence that Aragati got
(01:37):
him with. I have it here, second at bat in
the second inning against Atagette, and he's going to open
him up with a ball. A ball. Okay, here's the
first pitch. It is a curveball up and away. He
got him to swing and miss on his curveball in
the first at bat of the game. Going for it
(01:58):
here or he's trying to backdoor the curve. I don't know,
kind of a nothing pitch looks like it might even
just slip out of his hands. The next pitch is
a one to oh, and that's a fastball outside in
her eyes. Look at his reaction. Oh nope, don't want
it now. I had a realization while I was making
this video, and I was searching tons of her eyes, numbers,
looking in to see if I can find anything of interest.
(02:20):
And my realization was he's such a react hitter. Like
his his his approach is not to hit with power,
it's to fight off pitches in the zone and put
him in play. So can you even sequence against guys
like that. The answer is yes, like subliminately. But he's
not going up there and hunting for a pitch, really,
(02:42):
he's he's all reaction. Uh maybe he's hunting for an area.
But I think he hates walking. He likes when the
ball play that whatever you throw, he's gonna try and
swing in it unless he recognizes at a ball. So
I was like, does tunneling even work anyway? He's got
a two to oh here, and they're not gonna go
two oh fastball. They're gonna two to zero. Cutter a
(03:03):
little high gets the strike call. Arise doesn't like that.
Here's the side by side of it if you want
to see. I think I think it's a strike. It's
at the letters. I mean, I don't know is that
called a strike these days? Used to be like they
would call it at the belt. Maybe that's high. He's
(03:23):
kind of crouched down. Maybe that changed the umpire's opinion
of him. So you got a two to one now
and he just took a cutter looking. So what do
the Astros go with? They go with a nice four
seam fastball and beats him to the spot in the
zone according to the score bug. But I think that
was in the zone, just a heater, and I found
(03:46):
a lot of pitches in that spot. I went on,
I'll tell you about that in a second. Let's finish
that at bat off of that too too. He's got
a ball to spare, and Arise does not like walking,
and he swings that pitches out of the zone, So
I feel like you have to throw pitches out of
the zone. Here to two they go another fastball and
it is more out of the zone and our eyes
(04:07):
is jumping, jumping and reaching to fend it off. So actually,
I really like that pitch. You're still too too, so
you have more room to go out of the zone.
Two two here and he spikes that one. I don't
know what that was, cutter maybe or.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Change.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I don't know what that is. I'm not that familiar
with aragety stuff. Now it's three two, I'd still throw
a pitch out of the zone. Our eyes hates walking.
He likes swinging three to two pitches to Luis or
Eyes out of the zone this season and he has
(04:45):
walked nine times in twenty two played appearances. So that's
a four fifty five on base percentage. There must be
a hit by pitching there as well. Let's see, so
he's taken it for a ball one two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine times and then he got hit by pitch once,
(05:06):
so that helps. That helps it. But then one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
eleven times he got out of the ball and play,
and then one two, three, four, five six times he
just fouled it back and you got to redo it.
He never got a hit on a ball out of
the zone and he only took it for ball four
one two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine out
(05:28):
of twenty seven times. So at this point, I'm still
calling for a pitch out of the zone, even though
it's three to two, even though that loads the bases.
I know it's crazy. You got to trust your pitcher too,
and he's got trust his stuff. But they go cutter high,
the same pitch that he kind of took two to
oh and didn't recognize. He recognizes that one fights it back. Okay,
(05:50):
moving on, and now you're three to two, and again
I think you can kind of tease him out of
the zone. Last time they went cutter two oh, it
was a strike. Then they went to the fastball, so
I think that's the same sequence here cut her and
then yeah, just straight heater again beats him to the spot.
Look at her eyes animated. At bat he's a little
late on that, crouches down and runs across like he's
(06:13):
sneaking around three to two again, And I wouldn't be
in the zone here, and they choose not to be
in the zone, which I think is smart. And they
go curveball down and in and get some which is
a pitch you can get a rise with if it's
real tight, and reel in there and there's two strikes
and you can see the fryer. H look at that, Oh,
(06:36):
just devastated, hands on the head. And then to the left,
kind of interesting, you have this dad taking a picture
of his daughter as the pitch is coming. Then she
eats popcorn, and now he's filming here eating popcorn. And
(06:58):
they missed everything for that good at bat and Ari
strikes out his next at bat, they open up curveball
and he has a nice hit the opposite way. So
he was one for three off that picture with like
a ground out and then that strikeout, Ariz struck out.
I was all up in Ariz scouting reports trying to
figure out like Is there a spot that he just
(07:19):
can't hit that like tortures him. Is there a height
of a pitcher. I was looking at vertical release point,
Horizon's reliesport, just hunting and searching if I could find
anything that had enough correlation to present it to you, Like, hey,
if you got a picture with this release point and
this spin rate and he can place the ball in
this four inch square of the zone, you're gonna get
(07:41):
Luisa riisea swinging miss. I couldn't find anything. I got
close to finding stuff, but then it was like, nah,
this isn't enough to present to anyone. So there was
a lot of wasted searching, but in not a way.
Sometimes you'd get good stuff out of that stuff. Anyway,
moving on, Uh, Steven Vote got emotional talking about his
(08:05):
team and his players cheering each other on, and I'm
gonna play the clip for you.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I mean so happy for him.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
So the context is they had a big home run
in the bottom of the eighth inning to take the lead.
Guardians are just playing great, They're in a close game.
Look out and he's talking about it.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Everybody dreams of hitting that big home run or the
big bass hit in the Major leagues to help your
team win a game, and for him to hit a
go ahead home run at the bottom of the eighth,
that's a moment you dream up from the time you're
three to four years old. Maybe it's a walk off
in your dreams, but that type of a big hit
for your team. Everyone who grows up wanting to play
baseball has pretended that moment has happened from the time
(08:49):
they could walk and loved baseball. And the smile on
his face looking back at our dugout, that was incredible.
But my favorite part was Naylor at second base standing
there watching it. He waiting for him at home plate
with a smile on his face. You know, that's the
kind of stuff that this team does.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Get a little emotional. I mean, you're proud of the
romantic glint. I love these guys.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
There's so much fun to watch. They love each other.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
They work hard.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
That was about s all night, and to see two
teammates come together like that, that's powerful.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I absolutely love it. I mean I grew up. My
mom used to use Joe Torre as an example for
why to tell me like men men can cry like
to rid any toxic masculinity. Men don't cry. That might
have been penetrating my brain from outside sources. My mom
(09:50):
would look at Joe Tory and his postgame press conferences, say, see, Jim,
a real man can show his emotions and cry. And
I'm a big cryer. Sometimes I'll get choked up at stuff.
But I just love that he's getting choked up, as
he explains, not at the result, but of the camaraderie
and the culture, because I'm sure he feels like he
(10:16):
is building that part of that, supplying that that's what
he wants to see. He wants to see them cheering
each other on. And he's saying the home run was great,
but what Nailer. The way his teammate reacted to him
and celebrated him was what really got me going. Let's
watch the home run?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Where do what?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I have the highlights here? It is absolute bomb of
a home run.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I don't bring up Kyle Man.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
You see this. Hold on, watch this. This is something
that batters do now. And for a while was like,
what are they looking at? Watch his eyes? See those
eyes glance over that's uh pitchclock. So he's trying to
figure out, okay, is this picture? How many times as
he got left. But if you watch when they do
these close up shots at batters in baseball now, a
(11:04):
lot of times they do that. The one in Milwaukee
is like really high to the right, so sometimes you
see them like really looking up there, and I'm like,
what are they looking at? Then I asked a player
and they was like, that's the pitch clock.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I was like, oh, oh yeah, okay, Kyle Manto one
down the pitch.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Oh my goodness, that fan. Sorry to cut the home
run off, you said, fan, I'm gonna turn the volume
down and play it in slow mo. This fan jumps
to catch this. Did you just fall right on his
great camera work, by the way. Okay, so the fan
(11:50):
jumps up, I think he misses it, totally bodies that
other fan and then falls down. Damn. Good effort. Good effort,
But don't hurt people. Don't be jumping around all reckless
and hurting people. Let's go back. I'll play it again,
uninterrupted audio of the call and the home run. It's
just it's a bomb.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Kyle Man one down the pitch, swung on.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Hit high, hit deep to.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Majistic two run bombed all right by Kyle Man sotle
off Minnesota's best Griffin Jacks and the Twins bullpen has
himploded again.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Okay, so here I'll turn their volume down. Here's the
shot of Naylor celebrating that he referenced, Oh it was quick,
and then that's him waiting at home. Played for him.
I'm sure he's celebrated more at a second it just
cuts off and then yet so that's what got him
(12:56):
fired up. Oh he's not. He's emotional in a different way.
But yeah, I just it's awesome, you know I I
would love you'd love a manager like that. And to
go from Tito to now vote it seems like they
got the same sentiment going on. But man, other people's
joy is some of the more powerful stuff going on,
(13:19):
which is why it's so nice to be happy right
in like the corniest way, like spreading happiness, and people
just like kind of like look at that as stupid,
but yeah, man, happy people are better to be around.
It makes sense. And if you can foster a culture
of that and rid and where you really root for
each other. For me, For me, we have our warehouse
(13:44):
games and that's you know, we built that from scratch,
and it's we are the mood. Whatever we have that
every time one of our tournaments ends and someone wins
that hasn't won before, uh huh, or like you know,
we got guys that kind of get shipped from the
comments section at times, and then if they have a
(14:06):
big moment and win, like when Zoe became like a
beast and then he won, uh, and he's celebrating, like
it's like like really celebrating. I'll be in the corner
of that dog pile of tearing up, not like crying,
but like getting MISTI had because I'm like, what is this?
What happened? We have such a good community and culture
and like support in the warehouse, like Jolly gets cheers
(14:27):
and then uh, usually I'm on the wrong end of it,
so I'm upset because I get walked off on. But
then I am very happy for the people, so I
get voids looking vote vote not void is looking on like, uh,
he's taking some pride because I'm sure he feels like
he is uh building that culture, which is he is
(14:48):
proud of cool moment. Never reject happy tears. Those are
the best. Now we'll get a little more brutal. I
I wanted to find outfielders that I want to find
like hot dogs. But that's not going to be the
exact example. So I'm using inside Edge. They have a
(15:10):
really awesome system back end. And what I did was
I toggled on defensive plays fly balls or line drives
to the outfield that are tagged as ninety to one
hundred percent likely to be made, so they're certain they
call these plays certain like they will be made. It
would be an error if they don't. And then I
(15:32):
toggled on the fielder dove. Okay, so which fielders are
leaving their feet the most on routine plays. The left
fielder that is in here the most is rarely. So
(15:55):
let's see hangs up enough, but diving catch by Luke Raley.
All right, so there was one by Luke Rayley. Let's
let's watch it again. If this hangs up and yeah,
I mean he kind of like stutter steps because he's
got trying to get a read on it and then
(16:15):
goes down. Okay, I'm not terribly mad at you, Luke.
Let's see the next Railey one hot shot? Well, what
is that cat?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Blind left field?
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Raley comes in and he plases out and he makes
the cat.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
That one's pretty bad. That's just a that's just a ball. Uh,
he like stayed back on it. Here's the third Railey one.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
You don't want to swing at a fly ball to
left but in the ballpark or Rayley charge and.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Charge and leave his feet and make a sliding catch.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, so that's just a really like an awful route, right.
I mean he he kind of did banana peel route,
but he's just circling it. He's just it looks like
he's just playing a very cautious he trusted himself to
slide and catch it, but not uh not to read it.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Let's see the Randy one. See if there's any more
egregious ones in uh left field? I mean okay, yes,
no need veerling. Oh so these are all just they're
just getting wobbled on a line drive to left and
(17:34):
then just going down. Oh this one's a little different.
Oof call Nick. Oh he got a real bad jump
on it and then had to come in. He's mad
at himself. He's getting claps, but he's mad at himself.
That's the Clint Fraser special right there, bad read bad route,
(17:57):
diving play clap Verdugo. Let's see Dugo's got one. Yeah,
same thing, just all right. Line drives really, Uh, Happer,
Happer's got a lot of non routine plays this year
in love field slicing. Yeah, that's not a dive. I
(18:22):
guess it's a slide. He went to the ground. That
one's not that agreed. The Randy one, I think was
the worst. Let's change this to centerfielders, because the best
center fielders are just fast and they they don't dive
that much, to be honest, or you know, they get
they don't dive on easy balls at all. Let's say
(18:42):
there's only fifteen of these. See if we got any
repeat names. I see Scott on here twice. I see
Bader on here twice. I see Jazz Chisholm on here twice,
Freeman twice. You know what, I'll just uh, We'll just
watch him in order uninterrupted.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
He flies at the center and right there's nemo if
the dive though, and.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
He makes the cast Froze line drive Knuckler. Seems like
that's the common.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
With the diving grab to deny Devers, and in the inning.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
That seems like the common theme.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
He Smith smacks the ball the right centerfield the Luca Oh, really,
that looked like he needed to do that that looked
like he needed to dive.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Oh no, let's see for one. I mean it sounds
like a gun shot.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Sitterfield the Luca with a diving.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Cas just because he took that like little stutter step.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Without diving. Care It built up to eighty eighty five pitches.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
And then this one's Rafaela in center. Yeah, he ran
too far back and then came forward. Got that's not
fooling anyone. Like anyone that watches that in live time
isn't like, Oh, nice diving play. That's a nice play,
makes a great catch. He's just playing real deep. A smile,
Victor clapping. Okay, next one out of you know slider. Wow,
(20:19):
Bader was playing so deep. Oh and he dropped it.
Damn he was playing so deep.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Has already seen seven. There are some wows we're talking
about right there in the air to center field and
the catch.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Hell was that.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
In the air to center field?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
That looks like a really soft grass. That's something that
they don't talk about in baseball that much at all.
Interesting little factoid for you. I was talking to a
baseball player ex baseball player, and I showed him. I
showed them the chart I did on things you missed
a while ago about the right spot stat that I
(21:04):
was drafting up, and one I showed it was a
couple ex players. I showed him how the Rays were
the worst at defensive positioning and he was like, that
tracks up. I know some guys over there that I've
always complained, like, dude, they got me in the wrong spot.
Thought that was interesting. And then another one of the
X players, I said that the Padres infield graded out
(21:27):
the worst in the infield positioning on hot shot ground balls,
and the Yankees graded out pretty good. And he said,
I bet the grass matters way more there than you
would know, Like the soft infields slow the ball down.
He's like in San Diego that that infield grass is thin.
And I was like, interesting, because in cricket that's talked
(21:48):
about so much. The speed of the grass balls will
travel fast, not fast. Now. I remember, you know, in
the eighties when everyone was playing on cement and the
AstroTurf and Pete Rose and everyone got all those hits,
they talked to about how fast it was. But they
don't really talk about that that much anymore. And this
turf looks so spongy. Here, looks like he can't get
his footing. Also, just a bizarre play. Anyway, Let's keep
(22:11):
watching center fielders dive for routine plays deep into this game.
That's it harder. Bader's playing crazy center field. I mean again,
just a wrong read the other one he was playing
so deep, Lizardo Abrams, how is this? Oh my god,
(22:35):
they're playing so jeeps to Wow, there's jazz when you're
that fast and athletic. Look how deep he's playing. This
is why doubles don't exist anymore. That's crazy. Deep means
four oh two to dead center. So Jazz runs all
(22:57):
the way in and makes a nice play. It's a
product of positioning over anything else.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I don't know where that came from.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Fred Rodgers, mister Rogers, this one into center field, coming
on quickly Freeman and he goes into a dive to
make the case. I don't know. I was up there
for a while, so it seems to or we got more.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Something different, or try to do too much because he's
hitting up in the order. Since this one long way
to center, Pastro is still doing back.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
What makes the still doing that is that is I
wouldn't call this hot dog in it, because that's not
getting you on any highlight reels unnecessarily, But what the
hell is that?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Then?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
No need for that? What was that.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Far for assessment?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Right?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
A two game bottom of the eighth curveball put in play.
Jazz again.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Lost his balance but still made the catch.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
So he did a hand motion there that say that
just dipped on him? I guess off the end of
the bad whoa, that was awesome? What is that? Just
a bad read man? It seems like they're playing so
deep that sometimes these miss hit balls short are just
tough for them. Line to center, yeah, that's normal. That's
(24:25):
just a way to secure that ball when there it comes.
That was a fastball, but it's lined to center and
oh boy, geez ran too far and then it came in. Damn.
I wonder if there's a sense of outfielders moving around
(24:45):
too much that they're messing up their lines, or am
I just watching the the off bad play? Scott frozen again. Okay,
let's go to right field. Soto's got O'Neil's got one, Springer, Rooker, Garcia, Cheerio, Barrio, Triolo, Sodo,
(25:07):
Goodman de Lucas and Tandeer Joe. Let's watch Soto, Sodo's
made zero non routine plays this.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Year line to Sotos. He goes down and makes the play.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Oh in the rain, diving in the pouring rain. This
you know the rain allows more diving is just fun?
What do we got? What the hell's going on? Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I mean that scared me. Now we're even watching geez,
who's this triolo?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Right? Soon? Drops it? Or did he get it?
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Let's sit.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
That ball is just putting no man's land? How is that?
I don't know if I agree. I know it's just numbers,
but I don't know if I agree with that. It's
like likely to be made the balls and Nomans.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Does have five saves on the slice it.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Ooh, twisted them up. Nice play, nice recovery. He was
pumped about it. Twisted him up in the right and
cheery on old a stutter stepping going on. It's a
lot of those hardliners.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Right, and it's gonna be cut.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
You can just catch that?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
What do I known?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Long way to go for Rooker?
Speaker 4 (26:27):
He slides it makes the catch it will I.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Wonder if that's a way to secure your stop your
momentum so you can slide and have the closer throat
a second. I don't know the players that have made
the most dives diving plays Reynolds thirteen, Calnick eleven, Hap eleven,
Nimo eleven, Gordon eleven, Verdugo ten. That's in left field.
In center field you got Rojas with sixteen, Isabel with fifteen,
(26:51):
Jazz with fifteen, Doyle with thirteen, And in right field
the most dives is Santan dah with sixteen, Spring with fifteen,
Garcie with seventeen. Routine plays made this year, leading is
Michael Siani, then he and happed in Dalton varshow Jose Seri,
who's on the Juan Soto zero non routine plays made
(27:13):
this year? According to Inside Edge, isa ikf Isaiah is
Jesus Isaiah Kiner phileff I couldn't talk for a little bit,
only one out of forty chances. That's not good. And
Nolan Gorman won out of thirty two, with Merrifield, Heno
Suarez two out of thirty eight. Interesting stuff, Interesting stuff.
(27:34):
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