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    Re: Reds Sign Sean Doolittle

    Quote Originally Posted by Rdirtypirates View Post
    He has a career era+ of 134, a FIP of 2.79, and a whip under 1. This is way better than " okay". His 2019 and 2020 wasn't great but if he returns to his career form he will be a GREAT pickup.
    I was talking about Garrett there.
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    Re: Reds Sign Sean Doolittle

    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Servo View Post
    I was talking about Garrett there.
    I see that now, my bad.

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    Re: Reds Sign Sean Doolittle

    Crazy stat...Doolittle was a pretty good hitting prospect in the minors as well. Career .803 OPS and hit 22 HR's in 2008.

    https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=doolit001sea

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    Re: Reds Sign Sean Doolittle

    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Servo View Post
    I was talking about Garrett there.
    yeah, but they do look alike.

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    Re: Reds Sign Sean Doolittle

    Quote Originally Posted by JFLegal View Post
    yeah, but they do look alike.
    Not really. Amir is 4 inches taller.
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    Re: Reds Sign Sean Doolittle

    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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    Re: Reds Sign Sean Doolittle

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    Not really. Amir is 4 inches taller.
    That’s what she said
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    Re: Reds Sign Sean Doolittle

    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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    Re: Reds Sign Sean Doolittle

    Quote Originally Posted by George Foster View Post
    Isn't his fly ball-ground ball splits pretty awful for GAB? Just saw it on Twitter. Don't know if it's true.
    If it was on Twitter it's true
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    Re: Reds Sign Sean Doolittle

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    Crazy stat...Doolittle was a pretty good hitting prospect in the minors as well. Career .803 OPS and hit 22 HR's in 2008.

    https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=doolit001sea
    Can he play SS?

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    Re: Reds Sign Sean Doolittle

    Quote Originally Posted by George Foster View Post
    Isn't his fly ball-ground ball splits pretty awful for GAB? Just saw it on Twitter. Don't know if it's true.
    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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    Re: Reds Sign Sean Doolittle

    Quote Originally Posted by M2 View Post
    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.
    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.
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    Re: Reds Sign Sean Doolittle

    Quote Originally Posted by RedTeamGo! View Post
    This is a great move. If Doolittle balls out it’s good on two fronts. If the reds are competing for the division in July great, if they are not he can be traded for an asset at the deadline. If he stinks it’s only $1.5 million.
    Exactly how I see it.. Beats the heck out of a retread that was never any good.
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    Re: Reds Sign Sean Doolittle

    Quote Originally Posted by Kc61 View Post
    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.
    They said the same thing about Sonny Gray’s HR rates
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    Re: Reds Sign Sean Doolittle

    Quote Originally Posted by RedTeamGo! View Post
    They said the same thing about Sonny Gray’s HR rates
    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.
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