"This isn’t stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner
I was at the game, sitting behind home plate, seven rows up.
The problem with Joyce was not that he was "tight", but that he was very inconsistent. Throughout the whole game, Padres fans in my section were screaming at him for not being consistent. I kept hearing things like "that was a strike two pitches ago." I was thinking the same thing, and this was way before the 8th.
I think your pitch by pitch analysis demonstrates this, as there were some borderline calls he gave to Weathers and some he did not. That has to be frustrating to a pitcher in a tight situation, to not know where the ump's strike zone is.
Regardless, you are 100% about Cordero. That was the highest leverage situation the Reds would be in all game, that is when you use your best pitcher, especially when he is a high K guy.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein
Which I never said there was. There were two close pitches that Weathers gets a lot of his K's from the front door fastball that could/should have been called. Both pitches led to a game tying, bases loaded walk. Of course, Cordero could have blown it in the ninth, but he never got the chance. That was a crappy plate last night, that is all I am saying. I don't get into this or that lost the game, but obviously getting one of those would have kept the Reds ahead with one to go. They had several more chances to get a run and didn't. Sometimes, its ok to refer to another force besides the Reds own incompetence influencing outcomes.
"This isn’t stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner
"This isn’t stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner
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