I’m glad Reds are focusing on launch angle.
They also need to focus on swing and miss. The team K% has increased and was 3rd highest in the NL last year.
I’m glad Reds are focusing on launch angle.
They also need to focus on swing and miss. The team K% has increased and was 3rd highest in the NL last year.
"Baseball is only dull to those with dull minds."
757690 (03-03-2021)
I've always adhered to the hit 'em where they aint strategy. With all the defensive shifts used in baseball today it can only be player's stubbornness or quest for personal stats that cause guys to hit 'em where they are.
I read a story once where Ted Williams was complaining about the defensive alignments being used against him. None other than Ty Cobb laughed at him saying
"The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field."
I remember as a kid I watched a George Brett instructional video. His number one rule was try to hit the ball hard, not far. The Reds don’t need a launch angle approach in GABP. Place is already a launching pad. Hard hit balls will go. Fly balls that may leave GABP becomes cans of corn on the road.
Old school 1983 (03-03-2021)
My thoughts almost verbatim. Sometimes I wonder if the folks running things even watch this team play or just look at numbers and make the decisions based on that.
I would buy into the whole "we were just unlucky" except for the fact that in the playoff they were horrendous and the quality of the at bats looked worse than the results which is hard to believe since they put up goose eggs for 22 straight innings.
Lance McAlister @LanceMcAlister
Hitting coach Alan Zinter talked in spring training about the Reds missing hits on the spectrum last year.
2021: 113 more hits
-7 HR, +2 3B, +26 2B, +92 1B
Reds offense: 60 games
2020
BA .212, H 390, R 4.05
2021
BA .247, H 503, R 4.87
Good news:
Reds have scored 49 more runs through 60 games compared to a year ago.
Bad news:
Reds have allowed 76 more runs through 60 games compared to a year ago.
Last edited by Ron Madden; 06-11-2021 at 12:50 PM.
HammerTime (06-11-2021),Tom Servo (06-11-2021)
Makes you wonder if the pitchers cottoned onto that line-drive approach as well.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
Wonderful Monds (06-11-2021)
"Reds have allowed 76 more runs through 60 games compared to a year ago."
I would say that the departure of Bauer and Iglesias, plus the implosion of Castillo and Garret, probably account for those runs.
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