"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
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Polo Grounds dimensions (1957):
LF: 280 ft.
LC: 447 ft.
CF: 480 ft.
RC: 440 ft.
RF: 258 ft.
Backstop: 74 ft. behind home plate
Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman. Damn glad to meet ya.
A great article about Chris Davis by Joe Pos:
The At-Bat That Transformed Chris Davis
Last paragraph: "Our buddy Craig Calcaterra has spent much of Monday morning pointing out the skeptics who are taking to Twitter to scream “steroids” -- the sad but inevitable reaction to any sustained power run these days. It’s a rotten deal; Chris Davis has done absolutely nothing to draw such suspicion. Anyway, he seems to be handling it well. When someone on Twitter named @MichiganMagic1 asked him if he was on steroids, Davis replied succinctly. “No,” he wrote."
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"I think we’re starting to get to the point where people are starting to get tired of this stretch of ball,” Votto said. “I think something needs to start changing and start going in a different direction. I’m going to do my part to help make that change.”
Did anyone catch this article by Rick Reilly? Seems we've got our fingers on the pulse of current baseball writing here at RZ.
(Hint... nothing in here that we haven't already said better here. I hate Rick Reilly's writing most of the time, and this is no exception).
And yes, Davis has passed all three drug tests he's taken this season, he says. But Barry Bonds passed every test he ever took. So did Lance Armstrong. Tells me nothing.
That's not fair to Chris Davis -- who can prove a negative? -- but it's what baseball deserves. So many players cheated, so many trainers looked the other way, so many suits left holes in the testing process, that anybody who has an out-of-the-blue season makes us all go, "You figure it's the cream or the clear? The HGH or the Deca? In the butt or under the tongue?"
Davis can explain everything, of course. He says he went from Bernie Williams to Ted Williams because "I'm just making more consistent contact," he says. Also, he switched to a bigger bat. And he fixed a couple of holes in his swing.
But this is a guy who's spent most of his career bouncing from the bushes to the bigs. In fact, in four seasons of facing Triple-A pitching, he hit only 54 home runs. Now, in one major league season, he's on pace to hit 62? That must be some new bat.
"I know, I know," Davis shrugs. "I have to take the heat for other people's mistakes. I guess it's kind of a backhanded compliment. If people accuse me of steroids, I must be doing something right."
Also, "only" 54 home runs in 867 Triple A at-bats for Davis is still pretty damn good, and that the bulk of those came in 2011, the last year he spent there before coming back to the majors and started launching them there.
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“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
Yeah I admit I don't quite get the "only" 54 home runs comment either. Those 54 home runs gave him a 5.5 HR% among all plate appearances at AAA. Now granted, it's not the ridiculous 9.0% he has now, but it's still a pretty good feat. I suppose it's fair to question the jump from 5.5 to 9.0%, but I wouldn't chastise him for "only" hitting home runs in 5.5% of his AAA plate appearances.
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
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