Mitri (03-02-2021),REDREAD (03-06-2021),Revering4Blue (03-02-2021)
I doubt DJ meant to be expressing favor for a an extreme fly ball tendency for his pitchers at GABP.
Iglesias’ 2019 extreme fly ball rate declined dramatically last year. I doubt that was an accident. I’m sure the pitching coaches helped bring about that result. I expect a similar normalization of batted ball rates from Mahle in 2021.
Castillo, Gray, Miley, and Lorenzen all have ground ball tendencies, to a greater or lesser extent. So this issue doesn’t arise with that group.
Last edited by Kc61; 03-02-2021 at 02:44 PM.
You're twisting my words. I didn't say DJ wants extreme fly ball numbers. Mahle will almost assuredly "regress to the mean" a bit with his fly ball rate in 2021 but it's not going to be some emphasis of the coaching staff. Until it becomes a problem, it doesn't make sense to start tinkering when he's having success
Last edited by Kc61; 03-02-2021 at 03:09 PM.
Again, I'm not saying the coaching staff is going to stop coaching Mahle for some unknown reason. I think it is clear by DJ's comments he is agnostic about where batted ball outs come from, regardless of their home park. Option A appears to be missing bats, so they will continue working with him on that. I'm sure they will be looking at batted ball stuff but, based on his comments, I expect they will be much more concerned with exit velocities and hard hit rates than his GB/FB rates
Solid article by Sheldon breaking down the rotation of each team in the NL Central. Long Story Short... All have major questions marks, but the Reds easily have the best 1-2 punch at the top:
https://www.mlb.com/news/nl-central-...kdown-for-2021
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HammerTime (03-09-2021)
REDREAD (03-06-2021)
Jesse Sanchez reds.comThe Reds are confident Lorenzen can be effective in either role, but several factors will determine where he starts the season.
“There’s a pretty large sample size with what the hitters do with my stuff. If you’re relying on Spring Training to make a decision, it’s pretty foolish,” Lorenzen said. “I don’t think that that’s what they’re going to do. We’re a lot better than that. With [Reds pitching coach Derek Johnson] and David [Bell], they’re really smart and so they’re not going to make that decision based off of this. They had the belief in me to make two starts in do-or-die situations late down the stretch. I don’t think they’re going to make a call based off of Spring Training numbers of whether or not I’m in the rotation.”
Gray
Castillo
Mahle
Antone
Lodolo
Lorenzen and Miley in pen as back up options
Seems pretty easy to me.
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