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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to Jimmy's Three Things. Thank you very
much for tuning in today. I appreciate you. My name
is Jimmy. There's three things in Major League Baseball that
I want to discuss. One, the rookies are here, sec
SEC the new double A no but cool stuff from
last year's Draft Maddox documentary came out and I haven't
seen some of the one clip about him calling pitches
(00:21):
is amazing. It's everything. It's my favorite thing I think
I could ask for out of a documentary, to be honest.
And then the third thing, I ran into some wild
two strike stats that I'm gonna share with you guys.
So I'm gonna take a sip of my water and
then we're gonna get going, all right. I saw this
tweet from Oh I forgot to say. Jimmy's Three Things
(00:45):
is the production of Dan Patrick Production's, John Boy Media
and Workhouse Media, So shout out to them. Shout to you.
If you find yourself tuning in regularly you enjoy the show.
Subscribe that helps a ton. I saw this tweet here
that I have on my screen that says, Skemes cruise Langford.
This is the first time in twenty seven years that
(01:05):
three of the top four picks from a draft class
have debuted in the big leagues by the following season,
the Big three SEC. So I saw this tweet and
it is really cool. It's cool to get kids up
and promoted right away. Where did I have the draft
(01:27):
class page?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Here?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It is, So you got Skiens. Pirates took Skiens one overall,
the Nats took Dylan Cruz two overall, and then the
Tigers took high schooler Max Clark from Indiana three. He's
a high schooler, so he's not going to be as
advanced as the other three who were all were in
(01:51):
college and are twenty one years old. Wyatt Langford taken
by the Rangers and all SEC schools Florida and Louisiana.
And then, uh, you got Walker Jenkins. So let's see
what well, let's just what did I want to look
at first? One? I was laughing at the tweets and
(02:13):
I'm I'm happy that, Oh you can't even view quote
tweets on desktop anymore. Maybe you can, oh yeah, you
can't do it on your phone. I saw a lot
of people saying that SEC is the new double A,
which I like I'm proud that the SEC is proud
that they graduated these kids into the draft and got
up right away I would. I was like, I was
(02:34):
getting salty. I don't know why. I don't know why
I was getting salty, but I was like, it's not
the new double A. Guys, come on now, let's be
honest with ourselves. More kids have debuted this year that
were in double A last year than that we're in
the SEC. So then I was pulling up those numbers
(02:55):
and I found, you know, you got by by war leaders.
Jackson Merrill was in double A last year. He's playing well.
Jackson Tario was in double A last year. Max Schumann
of the Oakland Athletics was in double A last year,
and he's got plus war this year. I guess where
(03:19):
is he? Maybe Where's what was what was the name?
I just said, Max Shuman? Where is he? He's got
to be on this list somewhere. No, oh yeah, yeah,
twentieth and war one point four. So anyway, I'm going
to speed roll through this first topic. The next two
(03:40):
topics I was very excited for. I was very excited
for this, but then as I continued on my research,
we kept going. But I wanted. I checked to see
if Skeen said face Cruise or Langford and the Miners.
They never did. I don't know if I can check
college game logs. Obviously Cruz and Skiens were teammates. I mean,
(04:02):
if I google Ito Skeens versus Langford College, surely they
faced each other. Paul Skins versus White Langford. Let's watch it. Okay, Oh,
this is baseball America, all right. Here we go, first pitch,
heater right in there, strike one. They're both wearing USA jersey,
(04:25):
so damn it. I got the results spoiled for me
by the YouTube description. Let's see what he goes with next,
same pitch. Tried to get the outside edge, didn't find it.
Here we go, one and One's the count. That was
(04:47):
the sinker, splinker whatever fouled back? One and two? Does
he throw a breaking ball?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Here?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Does he throw a sweeper catcher's given the signs he's
staring in and outside. I guess it looks like a
decent pitch. Sinker got him swinging. That was rather uneventful. Anyway,
(05:19):
I was looking up other stuff. Oh yeah, Max Clark,
let's look at him. People are into Max Clark. I
mean he's got he's got style from Indiana Franklin, Indiana
Franklin Community High School. Has has anyone else come from
his high school? George Crow in nineteen twenty one. That's
his competition. George Crow eight oh nine career ops in
(05:42):
eleven years. So Max Clark, kid, look out, you gotta
beat George Crow if you want to be the best
ever from your high school. That's tough. George Crow. Let's
see crushing it in the I'm guessing two different teams.
(06:04):
These are the Negro League teams nineteen forty eight Negro
National League two team statistics National. Okay, I'm not as
similiar as I should be with that, but a bunch
of good years. He was an All Star one year.
This is his worst year offensively, So third, there was
a first baseman. Did he platoon a lot? Looks like
he might have platooned. Do we have splits on guys
(06:26):
from the sixties. He must have had a great start
to the year in nineteen fifty eight, or there was
two different All stars, so maybe it was nineteen fifty
eight splits. Nickname was Big George two time All Star.
Hell yeah yeah, mostly faced right handed batters did not
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get a lot of played appearances versus left handed bat
left handed batters. First half was way better. That's why
All Star. It's kind of just a first half war.
You know, he had a three h five batting average. Anyway,
Max Clark, good luck, you gotta, you gotta, You got
a lot of work to do.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
But people are very excited about Maxwell Reese Clark, who's
in the miners right now, and he was last year?
Where was he last year? He was in rookie ball
and then went to Single A, and now this year
is he's probably still in Single A or hig A.
He is in Hi A this year and he's doing
really well. Good for him, so he can get called
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up soon. But I mean not, that's when he's a teenager.
You don't really want to rush him. You want, if
you're the Tigers, you want to make sure that his
window of six years of big league GELLA really aligns
with a window for you. So he's so young and
you can let him, you can let him last. But yeah, wow,
went to HIA and immediately been hitting it last two games.
(07:51):
Oh first, So I'm not going to include them. Three
h three batting average, three eighty two homers, good for
the kid. I mean, look at his last couple days.
Look at his last couple of days in single A,
got out, Come on, come on, come on now, Jimmy,
you click the right buttons. You better move it along.
Got absolutely bored. Look at this week or these twenty
(08:15):
one days in July four to ten, batting average four
eighty nine, on base seven sixty nine, slugging one dot
two five eight ops uh in single A for the
Lakeland Flying Tigers in July. The it got hot out,
he said, yeah, I'm good, I'm bored, Send me up.
So now he's playing in West Michigan. Damn, two different areas.
(08:41):
Who is the other kid? Real quick? Who is the
other kid that got drafted? Uh? Did I lose that page?
If I lost that page? Oh no, Walker Walker Jenkins.
Let's find out what he's about and then trust me
the next two I'm so excited about Walker Jenkins. Walker
Jenkins is six 'y three lefty designated hitter, centerfield or
right fielder. Get that DH off your bio. Walker, you
(09:04):
are prospect and nineteen years old. Don't let him call
you a DH. You gotta work that out of there. Dude,
he's crushing he crushed rookie ball this year. Then he
went to single A and did pretty well there, and
now he's in HIA or low A and high A.
Good for him. All right, Have you guys seen this thing?
(09:25):
Number two? Have you seen this Maddox documentary? I missed
the documentary and I can't find where to find it
to stream it. I don't know if I'm being dumb.
MLBtv has a bunch of clips. This clip right here
is people tagged me in it because it's just it's
absolute gold for me. So let's just play the clip
(09:46):
and then we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It was just trying to understand how hitters see the ball,
and then what can I do with the ball to
try to trick him. Well, I'm gonna throw a change up.
I know it's it's not worth it. Unless I've thrown
on a low fastball for a strike, I have no
way to trick the hitter. Yeah, kind of like you know,
you can't go fishing without bait. Kind of bait the hook.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
I think they have a fairly complicated set of signs
that they go through.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I never told this to anybody, but he called his
own pitches. I think it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
How he did it, So how he caught the ball
from Eddie determined what the next pitch was going to be.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
When he threw that pitch, he go fastball, away, fastball, entire.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Tap his leg with his glove that is assigned to
Eddie Perez.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
This has changed, caught it incurable? Was this Nobody ever
knew it?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I mean, it was kind of brilliant.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
They'll call the professor for nothing. That is awesome. That
is beyond awesome. I love that. So for those that
are just listening, if he caught the ball back from
the catcher close to his body with his glove, that
meant he wanted to throw inside fastball. If he caught
it away from his body, that meant he wanted to
(11:04):
throw an outside fastball. If he picked his nose or
scratched his nose, that was curveball. And if he wiped
his forehead that was cutter. That's I mean. If you're
a hitter now, I'm gonna ask Boone about this on
the episode. If you're a hitter now and you're like, wait,
what I was I supposed to study that? I could
(11:24):
have picked up on that. I went and found a
random game on YouTube just to like see if I
could find it, and I'll be honest, the results from
this weren't as exciting as I thought. One the cameras
don't show it a bunch, and a lot of the
pitches got put in play. The first couple ones I
watched got put in play, which I was like, come on,
(11:45):
I need to watch the catcher throw it back to him.
But you know, Maguire came up popped out first pitch,
and then this one the next first pitch they throw
down the second, so I was kind of in a
torture chamber of like, let me watch him catch a
ball back from the catcher. Then one gets fouled back
and before we see Smallcy catch it, they cut away,
so I just kept hunting. Now here's one and ah,
(12:08):
you can't really tell see so I don't know what
this is. I'm because he kind of turns his glove
upside down and they didn't really talk about that. And
then they step off and they talk about it because
maybe you know, Perez was confused as well. Ends up
being a beautiful Maddox inside front hip sinker for strike three.
(12:33):
So that's a look at that pitch. It says stupid.
Look at this pitch aim at his hip. That's crazy cool.
So I kept searching and granted, this is just one game,
but it was kind of like, wait, I want to
find this by myself and really see if it's true.
(12:55):
And let me see what I found. That's first pitch,
little curveball, foul back. We don't see the throw, and
then they got this angle another slider, and then don't
know what that catch is. It wasn't the two they
showed in the documentary. And then they're calling pitches. So
I guess Perez still put the sign down because he
(13:16):
wanted to be on the same page. Now that catch
right here, you would think I would think that's outside fastball,
so let's see. That was like a slider away. So yeah,
I mean this one game, it's hard to tell they
did have, you know, everyone talking about it. I just
want to see it more. I'm is there any picture
(13:39):
doing that right now? Who would be the pitcher that
would do that? Right now? Scherzer call probably call Cale's
a real thinking guy's pitcher. Who would be the picture
right now? That is crazy that he would calls Frankie
probably did that stuff. He Grankie would just straight up
tell you. He would just like straight up say it,
and then you'd have to wonder if he was lying
(14:00):
to you or not. But that is so fascinating and cool.
And I want to know if there's any other stories
about pitchers calling their secret signals kind of there. That's
all I need, tips, tells and secret signals. Make it
a book. Make it a coffee shop book. You know
you got who's the tennis player that Agasy had his
(14:23):
serve because he went uh, he went tongue out when
he was going hard and tongue in when he was
going soft. AGAs see serve tongue tip. It was Becker,
Boris Becker. He would move his tongue in the direction
of his serve. I need a coffee table book of
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all sports. That's you know, the Statute of Limitations has passed, Tips,
tells and secret signals. Someone write that for me. Interview everyone.
In cricket, they call it picking the bowler and not
like getting a tip or a tell like I picked him,
So you can include that too. I mean goalkeeping in
(15:07):
soccer football like penalty kicks. Come on, write the book.
I need it, I need all of it. I love it.
I absolutely love it. I ran into a stat that
I I ran into a stat that has absolutely baffled
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me and floored me, and I can't quite come to
grips with it. I don't get it. Joey Gallo, we're
on year three now of him struggling with high fastballs
and him refusing to adapt to that situation. This season,
(15:52):
Joey Gallo has seen fifty two four seam fastballs in
the zone with two strikes on them. So that's the
game planing Galo. You get the two strikes, you throw
a fastball. Fifty two times the pitcher's thrown a two
strike fastball in the zone. Gallo has zero hits on
(16:17):
those pitches.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Zero zero.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
And if you go to pitches out of the zone,
because a lot of times you want them to chase
the high one. So we'll change it the fifty two
fastballs in the zone with two strikes on them, zero hits. Now,
if you go pitches out of the zone, there's been
thirty eight of those, and if you look at the
pitch breakdown, of those thirty eight pitches, twenty six have
(16:49):
been balls and the other twelve have been out or
strike three or foul ball. That's I mean, so I
grabbed the footage just so we could like witness it.
(17:10):
I don't get it. And before we move on, okay,
I'll show you this first. Let's just watch his montage.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Pitch and he stays there.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You go, I had help because there was five hundred
feet and a fastball past.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Him, got the inside corner.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Gallop, the upper cut.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Brandy oh, two pitch follow away to too offerings swing
and a miss. He struck him hot with some high
heat to runner breaks for second. It will not matter gallo, and.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
It's not a lot of.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Right by him basketball up and in to strike him
on basketball, by him swinging a miss and a ball
busted on.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
You see the slide step there and he's still able.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
To swing and a mess he got him. He went
upstairs towering pop up flights it off. So he has
so many other pitches.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
That foul.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
It's fouled off to a strike three right out of
the apple.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Slider swinging a miss.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Two to Joey Gallow, swung through for strike three, found
a way to gear it back in and a strike.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Put the text wing. I mean that's a crun. Oh
what a big swing right in there. Mine that it
was a ball.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Buy you for strike three two two.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Straw came out.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
You call strike three two a two. Gallo takes strike
three two strikes out the side in order one two
pitches popped out of play three to two pitch call
strike three.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Battle.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
The next good ball game is Miller got a there's
a healthy rip at a ninety set. It got up again.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Two two and Joey Gallo foul tips it into a
strikeout and a mile healthy hacked by the runner goes
Gallow high.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
They go held bank, Winker off, Gallo loops of fact,
Winker around the move. Gallo pops it up, Winker goes.
Gallo pops it up to both sides. It's so important.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Struck him up.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Two strike, great call in his height, he get and
he strikes out.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Joey hits this one in the air to right, got
a baby over his duvall into the gap.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Down the left field line.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
But this one is gonna go found nice.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Gallo sends this one to left center. Bader is over.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Strike three call.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
So that's painful to watch because Gallow's got so much
athletic talent and ability, and the fact that he won't
switch to a two strike approach is crazy to me
(21:16):
because he could be so he's got the ability, he's
so athletic, and like it was when he was with
the Yankees, it was like, dude, make an adjustment, and
you can be so good if you switch it to
include sinkers and cutters, so all fastballs, not just four
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seam you're gonna up, You're gonna up. It will do
pitches in his own two strikes we're including, we're including
sinkers and four teams. It jumps up to sixty eight pitches.
And he does have two hits, and one of them
is a homer, especially in San Francisco, and you can
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see it's got that sync to it where it comes
down and finds the barrel. It's actually, yeah, it's right
into his swing, which is nice. And the other one,
the other hit, is probably an error.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
In a line drive and hops its off the glove
of tree a look, Gallow.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
So two hits on two strike fastballs out of out
of sixty eight and if you look at the pitch
chart where they are in the zone, you know most
of them are high. And it's just who who's Who's
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pitching to Gallow and and giving up hits on non fastballs,
is it do? Do they exist? Bass hit pitch type,
off speed, breaking other pitches? And how many hits does
he have with two strikes? He has two on sinkers
(23:12):
that we know, Okay, so he's got four to two.
So he's only got six two strike hits on the year.
And we got so who are these pitchers and what
are they doing not throwing him fastballs? We got this one?
(23:35):
What was that defense? Okay, so that's a bad change up?
Why would you throw him a change up.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Play?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Not really a good hit, but a sweeper blooped it
in there, change up. It's a terrible pitch to throw
him two strikes?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Was smoked?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Crazy? Crazy? I mean, so if I take away two
strikes and I just go, if I just go fastballs,
spend four sing fastball, I don't care about two strikes.
I don't care about the results. I want to know
game day zones, attack zones. Let's go one, two, three, eleven, twelve, thirteen.
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How many hits does he have there on just high
four seam fastballs? Eighty seven times he's seen a pitch
there and oh shit, he's seen eighty seven twenty six
or balls. So sixty one. He's played three in play
(25:01):
and he has one hit. Fuck man, why aren't you
changing your swing? He's put two in play, he has
one hit on high fastballs on radio anything you want to,
(25:22):
but you don't get anything.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Cool that's full light field.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
That yeah, breaks my heart, to be honest, So I'm
not trying to rag on the guy like that is
heartbreaking that we can't get him to to switch. The
fun side is if you look at Bryce Oulglesias has
thrown fifty seven two strike fastballs this year, fifty seven
(25:47):
two strike fastballs this year. And on those fifty seven
two strike fastballs, he's given up zero hits, zero hits
on two two strike fastballs. Eight have been put in play,
eleven wift eighteen were balls. So fifty seven minus eighteen
(26:12):
I'm gonna do that in the calulator. Thirty nine thirty
nine pitches, no hits. Right, So Glesias has how many
two strike hits has he given up? Doesn't matter the pitch,
just two strikes played, appearance space hit. Let's see he
(26:36):
has five, and so they've all been on the slider,
change up, change up, change up, slider show. Hey, Harrison Bader,
why okay? Throw the fastball zero? How is that possible? Zero?
See if I can find the video of them. That
(27:02):
was a dotted fastball. Okay, abrams right at him, fouled back,
next one, two outs, two strikes to end the game.
Outside got him. Here's Alec Baum up and in, fouled back,
stays alive. Same at bat, goes low put in play, caught,
(27:32):
no hits. That's crazy. Wow, up and away. He must
be setting it up so perfectly. He must be setting
it up two wow. All right, So I'm gonna do
this swing and miss o two fastball. It's worked every time,
and every time the or three times. The pitch before
(27:53):
has been slider, slider, change down and away, down and away. Okay.
So this at bat to to Ahmed Rosario, the one
pitch was a middle middle fastball that was fouled back,
and he followed that up with just another fastball. Okay.
(28:17):
So this one was a down and in fastball that
Pelacios took for a strike, and he followed that with
another down and in, so he doubles it up sometimes. Okay. Now,
this was the one pitch to Yaz was a down
(28:37):
and down and away change up. So where's he spot
this fastball away up. Yeah, that's pretty nice. And then
this was a down and away slider, and he follows
that up with an away. This was a middle end
slider followed up by a middle fastball, so he's usually
(28:58):
chasing the same location on the off speed. This was
a down and away change up. So and it's Gallows,
so there should be an up and end fastball away fastball. Oh,
let's just search that real quick. And then I really
got to end this one at bat. Four pitches, swinging
strike on a slider, swinging strike on a change up,
(29:21):
ball on the fastball, and then he went back to
the changeup, which you're seeing. You're saying, why wouldn't you
go high fastball? I sell, That's what everyone knows. But
there was two on and one out, and he's like,
I need the double play here, so I'm gonna go low,
feeds himself, gets both out, ends the ends the tenth inning.
(29:43):
Gallow ooh, nice gums. Look at this. Look at gallow
putting on a display of gum kicking. Watch this spits
the gum out then boots it. Bam. I used to
do that as a kid, and then try to catch
it in my mouth.
Hello, and welcome to Jimmy's Three Things. Thank you very
much for tuning in today. I appreciate you. My name
is Jimmy. There's three things in Major League Baseball that
I want to discuss. One, the rookies are here, sec
SEC the new double A no but cool stuff from
last year's Draft Maddox documentary came out and I haven't
seen some of the one clip about him calling pitches
(00:21):
is amazing. It's everything. It's my favorite thing I think
I could ask for out of a documentary, to be honest.
And then the third thing, I ran into some wild
two strike stats that I'm gonna share with you guys.
So I'm gonna take a sip of my water and
then we're gonna get going, all right. I saw this
tweet from Oh I forgot to say. Jimmy's Three Things
(00:45):
is the production of Dan Patrick Production's, John Boy Media
and Workhouse Media, So shout out to them. Shout to you.
If you find yourself tuning in regularly you enjoy the show.
Subscribe that helps a ton. I saw this tweet here
that I have on my screen that says, Skemes cruise Langford.
This is the first time in twenty seven years that
(01:05):
three of the top four picks from a draft class
have debuted in the big leagues by the following season,
the Big three SEC. So I saw this tweet and
it is really cool. It's cool to get kids up
and promoted right away. Where did I have the draft
(01:27):
class page?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Here?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It is, So you got Skiens. Pirates took Skiens one overall,
the Nats took Dylan Cruz two overall, and then the
Tigers took high schooler Max Clark from Indiana three. He's
a high schooler, so he's not going to be as
advanced as the other three who were all were in
(01:51):
college and are twenty one years old. Wyatt Langford taken
by the Rangers and all SEC schools Florida and Louisiana.
And then, uh, you got Walker Jenkins. So let's see
what well, let's just what did I want to look
at first? One? I was laughing at the tweets and
(02:13):
I'm I'm happy that, Oh you can't even view quote
tweets on desktop anymore. Maybe you can, oh yeah, you
can't do it on your phone. I saw a lot
of people saying that SEC is the new double A,
which I like I'm proud that the SEC is proud
that they graduated these kids into the draft and got
up right away I would. I was like, I was
(02:34):
getting salty. I don't know why. I don't know why
I was getting salty, but I was like, it's not
the new double A. Guys, come on now, let's be
honest with ourselves. More kids have debuted this year that
were in double A last year than that we're in
the SEC. So then I was pulling up those numbers
(02:55):
and I found, you know, you got by by war leaders.
Jackson Merrill was in double A last year. He's playing well.
Jackson Tario was in double A last year. Max Schumann
of the Oakland Athletics was in double A last year,
and he's got plus war this year. I guess where
(03:19):
is he? Maybe Where's what was what was the name?
I just said, Max Shuman? Where is he? He's got
to be on this list somewhere. No, oh yeah, yeah,
twentieth and war one point four. So anyway, I'm going
to speed roll through this first topic. The next two
(03:40):
topics I was very excited for. I was very excited
for this, but then as I continued on my research,
we kept going. But I wanted. I checked to see
if Skeen said face Cruise or Langford and the Miners.
They never did. I don't know if I can check
college game logs. Obviously Cruz and Skiens were teammates. I mean,
(04:02):
if I google Ito Skeens versus Langford College, surely they
faced each other. Paul Skins versus White Langford. Let's watch it. Okay, Oh,
this is baseball America, all right. Here we go, first pitch,
heater right in there, strike one. They're both wearing USA jersey,
(04:25):
so damn it. I got the results spoiled for me
by the YouTube description. Let's see what he goes with next,
same pitch. Tried to get the outside edge, didn't find it.
Here we go, one and One's the count. That was
(04:47):
the sinker, splinker whatever fouled back? One and two? Does
he throw a breaking ball?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Here?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Does he throw a sweeper catcher's given the signs he's
staring in and outside. I guess it looks like a
decent pitch. Sinker got him swinging. That was rather uneventful. Anyway,
(05:19):
I was looking up other stuff. Oh yeah, Max Clark,
let's look at him. People are into Max Clark. I
mean he's got he's got style from Indiana Franklin, Indiana
Franklin Community High School. Has has anyone else come from
his high school? George Crow in nineteen twenty one. That's
his competition. George Crow eight oh nine career ops in
(05:42):
eleven years. So Max Clark, kid, look out, you gotta
beat George Crow if you want to be the best
ever from your high school. That's tough. George Crow. Let's
see crushing it in the I'm guessing two different teams.
(06:04):
These are the Negro League teams nineteen forty eight Negro
National League two team statistics National. Okay, I'm not as
similiar as I should be with that, but a bunch
of good years. He was an All Star one year.
This is his worst year offensively, So third, there was
a first baseman. Did he platoon a lot? Looks like
he might have platooned. Do we have splits on guys
(06:26):
from the sixties. He must have had a great start
to the year in nineteen fifty eight, or there was
two different All stars, so maybe it was nineteen fifty
eight splits. Nickname was Big George two time All Star.
Hell yeah yeah, mostly faced right handed batters did not
(06:50):
get a lot of played appearances versus left handed bat
left handed batters. First half was way better. That's why
All Star. It's kind of just a first half war.
You know, he had a three h five batting average. Anyway,
Max Clark, good luck, you gotta, you gotta, You got
a lot of work to do.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
But people are very excited about Maxwell Reese Clark, who's
in the miners right now, and he was last year?
Where was he last year? He was in rookie ball
and then went to Single A, and now this year
is he's probably still in Single A or hig A.
He is in Hi A this year and he's doing
really well. Good for him, so he can get called
(07:29):
up soon. But I mean not, that's when he's a teenager.
You don't really want to rush him. You want, if
you're the Tigers, you want to make sure that his
window of six years of big league GELLA really aligns
with a window for you. So he's so young and
you can let him, you can let him last. But yeah, wow,
went to HIA and immediately been hitting it last two games.
(07:51):
Oh first, So I'm not going to include them. Three
h three batting average, three eighty two homers, good for
the kid. I mean, look at his last couple days.
Look at his last couple of days in single A,
got out, Come on, come on, come on now, Jimmy,
you click the right buttons. You better move it along.
Got absolutely bored. Look at this week or these twenty
(08:15):
one days in July four to ten, batting average four
eighty nine, on base seven sixty nine, slugging one dot
two five eight ops uh in single A for the
Lakeland Flying Tigers in July. The it got hot out,
he said, yeah, I'm good, I'm bored, Send me up.
So now he's playing in West Michigan. Damn, two different areas.
(08:41):
Who is the other kid? Real quick? Who is the
other kid that got drafted? Uh? Did I lose that page?
If I lost that page? Oh no, Walker Walker Jenkins.
Let's find out what he's about and then trust me
the next two I'm so excited about Walker Jenkins. Walker
Jenkins is six 'y three lefty designated hitter, centerfield or
right fielder. Get that DH off your bio. Walker, you
(09:04):
are prospect and nineteen years old. Don't let him call
you a DH. You gotta work that out of there. Dude,
he's crushing he crushed rookie ball this year. Then he
went to single A and did pretty well there, and
now he's in HIA or low A and high A.
Good for him. All right, Have you guys seen this thing?
(09:25):
Number two? Have you seen this Maddox documentary? I missed
the documentary and I can't find where to find it
to stream it. I don't know if I'm being dumb.
MLBtv has a bunch of clips. This clip right here
is people tagged me in it because it's just it's
absolute gold for me. So let's just play the clip
(09:46):
and then we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It was just trying to understand how hitters see the ball,
and then what can I do with the ball to
try to trick him. Well, I'm gonna throw a change up.
I know it's it's not worth it. Unless I've thrown
on a low fastball for a strike, I have no
way to trick the hitter. Yeah, kind of like you know,
you can't go fishing without bait. Kind of bait the hook.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
I think they have a fairly complicated set of signs
that they go through.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I never told this to anybody, but he called his
own pitches. I think it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
How he did it, So how he caught the ball
from Eddie determined what the next pitch was going to be.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
When he threw that pitch, he go fastball, away, fastball, entire.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Tap his leg with his glove that is assigned to
Eddie Perez.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
This has changed, caught it incurable? Was this Nobody ever
knew it?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I mean, it was kind of brilliant.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
They'll call the professor for nothing. That is awesome. That
is beyond awesome. I love that. So for those that
are just listening, if he caught the ball back from
the catcher close to his body with his glove, that
meant he wanted to throw inside fastball. If he caught
it away from his body, that meant he wanted to
(11:04):
throw an outside fastball. If he picked his nose or
scratched his nose, that was curveball. And if he wiped
his forehead that was cutter. That's I mean. If you're
a hitter now, I'm gonna ask Boone about this on
the episode. If you're a hitter now and you're like, wait,
what I was I supposed to study that? I could
(11:24):
have picked up on that. I went and found a
random game on YouTube just to like see if I
could find it, and I'll be honest, the results from
this weren't as exciting as I thought. One the cameras
don't show it a bunch, and a lot of the
pitches got put in play. The first couple ones I
watched got put in play, which I was like, come on,
(11:45):
I need to watch the catcher throw it back to him.
But you know, Maguire came up popped out first pitch,
and then this one the next first pitch they throw
down the second, so I was kind of in a
torture chamber of like, let me watch him catch a
ball back from the catcher. Then one gets fouled back
and before we see Smallcy catch it, they cut away,
so I just kept hunting. Now here's one and ah,
(12:08):
you can't really tell see so I don't know what
this is. I'm because he kind of turns his glove
upside down and they didn't really talk about that. And
then they step off and they talk about it because
maybe you know, Perez was confused as well. Ends up
being a beautiful Maddox inside front hip sinker for strike three.
(12:33):
So that's a look at that pitch. It says stupid.
Look at this pitch aim at his hip. That's crazy cool.
So I kept searching and granted, this is just one game,
but it was kind of like, wait, I want to
find this by myself and really see if it's true.
(12:55):
And let me see what I found. That's first pitch,
little curveball, foul back. We don't see the throw, and
then they got this angle another slider, and then don't
know what that catch is. It wasn't the two they
showed in the documentary. And then they're calling pitches. So
I guess Perez still put the sign down because he
(13:16):
wanted to be on the same page. Now that catch
right here, you would think I would think that's outside fastball,
so let's see. That was like a slider away. So yeah,
I mean this one game, it's hard to tell they
did have, you know, everyone talking about it. I just
want to see it more. I'm is there any picture
(13:39):
doing that right now? Who would be the pitcher that
would do that? Right now? Scherzer call probably call Cale's
a real thinking guy's pitcher. Who would be the picture
right now? That is crazy that he would calls Frankie
probably did that stuff. He Grankie would just straight up
tell you. He would just like straight up say it,
and then you'd have to wonder if he was lying
(14:00):
to you or not. But that is so fascinating and cool.
And I want to know if there's any other stories
about pitchers calling their secret signals kind of there. That's
all I need, tips, tells and secret signals. Make it
a book. Make it a coffee shop book. You know
you got who's the tennis player that Agasy had his
(14:23):
serve because he went uh, he went tongue out when
he was going hard and tongue in when he was
going soft. AGAs see serve tongue tip. It was Becker,
Boris Becker. He would move his tongue in the direction
of his serve. I need a coffee table book of
(14:44):
all sports. That's you know, the Statute of Limitations has passed, Tips,
tells and secret signals. Someone write that for me. Interview everyone.
In cricket, they call it picking the bowler and not
like getting a tip or a tell like I picked him,
So you can include that too. I mean goalkeeping in
(15:07):
soccer football like penalty kicks. Come on, write the book.
I need it, I need all of it. I love it.
I absolutely love it. I ran into a stat that
I I ran into a stat that has absolutely baffled
(15:29):
me and floored me, and I can't quite come to
grips with it. I don't get it. Joey Gallo, we're
on year three now of him struggling with high fastballs
and him refusing to adapt to that situation. This season,
(15:52):
Joey Gallo has seen fifty two four seam fastballs in
the zone with two strikes on them. So that's the
game planing Galo. You get the two strikes, you throw
a fastball. Fifty two times the pitcher's thrown a two
strike fastball in the zone. Gallo has zero hits on
(16:17):
those pitches.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Zero zero.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
And if you go to pitches out of the zone,
because a lot of times you want them to chase
the high one. So we'll change it the fifty two
fastballs in the zone with two strikes on them, zero hits. Now,
if you go pitches out of the zone, there's been
thirty eight of those, and if you look at the
pitch breakdown, of those thirty eight pitches, twenty six have
(16:49):
been balls and the other twelve have been out or
strike three or foul ball. That's I mean, so I
grabbed the footage just so we could like witness it.
(17:10):
I don't get it. And before we move on, okay,
I'll show you this first. Let's just watch his montage.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Pitch and he stays there.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You go, I had help because there was five hundred
feet and a fastball past.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Him, got the inside corner.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Gallop, the upper cut.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Brandy oh, two pitch follow away to too offerings swing
and a miss. He struck him hot with some high
heat to runner breaks for second. It will not matter gallo, and.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
It's not a lot of.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Right by him basketball up and in to strike him
on basketball, by him swinging a miss and a ball
busted on.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
You see the slide step there and he's still able.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
To swing and a mess he got him. He went
upstairs towering pop up flights it off. So he has
so many other pitches.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
That foul.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
It's fouled off to a strike three right out of
the apple.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Slider swinging a miss.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Two to Joey Gallow, swung through for strike three, found
a way to gear it back in and a strike.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Put the text wing. I mean that's a crun. Oh
what a big swing right in there. Mine that it
was a ball.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Buy you for strike three two two.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Straw came out.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
You call strike three two a two. Gallo takes strike
three two strikes out the side in order one two
pitches popped out of play three to two pitch call
strike three.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Battle.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
The next good ball game is Miller got a there's
a healthy rip at a ninety set. It got up again.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Two two and Joey Gallo foul tips it into a
strikeout and a mile healthy hacked by the runner goes
Gallow high.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
They go held bank, Winker off, Gallo loops of fact,
Winker around the move. Gallo pops it up, Winker goes.
Gallo pops it up to both sides. It's so important.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Struck him up.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Two strike, great call in his height, he get and
he strikes out.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Joey hits this one in the air to right, got
a baby over his duvall into the gap.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Down the left field line.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
But this one is gonna go found nice.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Gallo sends this one to left center. Bader is over.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Strike three call.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
So that's painful to watch because Gallow's got so much
athletic talent and ability, and the fact that he won't
switch to a two strike approach is crazy to me
(21:16):
because he could be so he's got the ability, he's
so athletic, and like it was when he was with
the Yankees, it was like, dude, make an adjustment, and
you can be so good if you switch it to
include sinkers and cutters, so all fastballs, not just four
(21:37):
seam you're gonna up, You're gonna up. It will do
pitches in his own two strikes we're including, we're including
sinkers and four teams. It jumps up to sixty eight pitches.
And he does have two hits, and one of them
is a homer, especially in San Francisco, and you can
(22:05):
see it's got that sync to it where it comes
down and finds the barrel. It's actually, yeah, it's right
into his swing, which is nice. And the other one,
the other hit, is probably an error.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
In a line drive and hops its off the glove
of tree a look, Gallow.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
So two hits on two strike fastballs out of out
of sixty eight and if you look at the pitch
chart where they are in the zone, you know most
of them are high. And it's just who who's Who's
(22:50):
pitching to Gallow and and giving up hits on non fastballs,
is it do? Do they exist? Bass hit pitch type,
off speed, breaking other pitches? And how many hits does
he have with two strikes? He has two on sinkers
(23:12):
that we know, Okay, so he's got four to two.
So he's only got six two strike hits on the year.
And we got so who are these pitchers and what
are they doing not throwing him fastballs? We got this one?
(23:35):
What was that defense? Okay, so that's a bad change up?
Why would you throw him a change up.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Play?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Not really a good hit, but a sweeper blooped it
in there, change up. It's a terrible pitch to throw
him two strikes?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Was smoked?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Crazy? Crazy? I mean, so if I take away two
strikes and I just go, if I just go fastballs,
spend four sing fastball, I don't care about two strikes.
I don't care about the results. I want to know
game day zones, attack zones. Let's go one, two, three, eleven, twelve, thirteen.
(24:34):
How many hits does he have there on just high
four seam fastballs? Eighty seven times he's seen a pitch
there and oh shit, he's seen eighty seven twenty six
or balls. So sixty one. He's played three in play
(25:01):
and he has one hit. Fuck man, why aren't you
changing your swing? He's put two in play, he has
one hit on high fastballs on radio anything you want to,
(25:22):
but you don't get anything.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Cool that's full light field.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
That yeah, breaks my heart, to be honest, So I'm
not trying to rag on the guy like that is
heartbreaking that we can't get him to to switch. The
fun side is if you look at Bryce Oulglesias has
thrown fifty seven two strike fastballs this year, fifty seven
(25:47):
two strike fastballs this year. And on those fifty seven
two strike fastballs, he's given up zero hits, zero hits
on two two strike fastballs. Eight have been put in play,
eleven wift eighteen were balls. So fifty seven minus eighteen
(26:12):
I'm gonna do that in the calulator. Thirty nine thirty
nine pitches, no hits. Right, So Glesias has how many
two strike hits has he given up? Doesn't matter the pitch,
just two strikes played, appearance space hit. Let's see he
(26:36):
has five, and so they've all been on the slider,
change up, change up, change up, slider show. Hey, Harrison Bader,
why okay? Throw the fastball zero? How is that possible? Zero?
See if I can find the video of them. That
(27:02):
was a dotted fastball. Okay, abrams right at him, fouled back,
next one, two outs, two strikes to end the game.
Outside got him. Here's Alec Baum up and in, fouled back,
stays alive. Same at bat, goes low put in play, caught,
(27:32):
no hits. That's crazy. Wow, up and away. He must
be setting it up so perfectly. He must be setting
it up two wow. All right, So I'm gonna do
this swing and miss o two fastball. It's worked every time,
and every time the or three times. The pitch before
(27:53):
has been slider, slider, change down and away, down and away. Okay.
So this at bat to to Ahmed Rosario, the one
pitch was a middle middle fastball that was fouled back,
and he followed that up with just another fastball. Okay.
(28:17):
So this one was a down and in fastball that
Pelacios took for a strike, and he followed that with
another down and in, so he doubles it up sometimes. Okay. Now,
this was the one pitch to Yaz was a down
(28:37):
and down and away change up. So where's he spot
this fastball away up. Yeah, that's pretty nice. And then
this was a down and away slider, and he follows
that up with an away. This was a middle end
slider followed up by a middle fastball, so he's usually
(28:58):
chasing the same location on the off speed. This was
a down and away change up. So and it's Gallows,
so there should be an up and end fastball away fastball. Oh,
let's just search that real quick. And then I really
got to end this one at bat. Four pitches, swinging
strike on a slider, swinging strike on a change up,
(29:21):
ball on the fastball, and then he went back to
the changeup, which you're seeing. You're saying, why wouldn't you
go high fastball? I sell, That's what everyone knows. But
there was two on and one out, and he's like,
I need the double play here, so I'm gonna go low,
feeds himself, gets both out, ends the ends the tenth inning.
(29:43):
Gallow ooh, nice gums. Look at this. Look at gallow
putting on a display of gum kicking. Watch this spits
the gum out then boots it. Bam. I used to
do that as a kid, and then try to catch
it in my mouth.
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