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Tom Servo (02-02-2021)
Crazy stat...Doolittle was a pretty good hitting prospect in the minors as well. Career .803 OPS and hit 22 HR's in 2008.
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M2 (02-02-2021)
Last summer I was walking in Georgetown (wearing a Reds mask) while Dolittle was on the I.L. He ran by me and waved. I think I had something to do with the signing.
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Old school 1983 (02-03-2021),Patrick Bateman (02-03-2021)
Isn't his fly ball-ground ball splits pretty awful for GAB? Just saw it on Twitter. Don't know if it's true.
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UKFlounder (02-03-2021)
He's a FB pitcher, but he's also kept the ball in the park pretty well over the course of his career. Arthur Lee Rhodes was the same type of dude and he did fine in the GAB. I think that's more of a concern for SPs, where the flyballs can catch up to them than for relievers, whose max effort style can turn those into cans of corn.
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Old school 1983 (02-03-2021)
Maybe, but it’s something to be watched. Doolittle had a 1.65 HR allowed rate in a full 2019 season. That won’t play at GABP. Similar to the problem Iglesias had for awhile. (Even ignoring Doolittle’s still worse HR rate in a tiny sample last season.)
Pitching coaches will have to focus on this with him. Probably relates to fastball effectiveness which was also down in 2019.
Last edited by Kc61; 02-03-2021 at 10:14 AM.
Red Raindog (02-03-2021),RedTeamGo! (02-03-2021),Revering4Blue (02-03-2021)
Sonny Gray never had a HR allowance rate as high as 1.65 per nine innings. In 2017, part of Sonny’s season was high (1.52 with Yanks) but overall only 1.05. Then only 0.97 in his 2018 full season, just before Reds acquired him.
In Doolittle’s case, his two worst HR allowance rates were in the last two seasons, just before this acquisition by the Reds. His K rates declined then too. (Last season with injuries in a very small sample)
So it’s something for them to work on. As I said earlier, the Reds’ coaching staff seems to know how to work with that issue, they did so effectively with Iglesias.
Last edited by Kc61; 02-03-2021 at 02:40 PM.
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