Bust!Originally Posted by Chip R
I'm disappointed Steer didn't get any hits yesterday.
Bust!I'm disappointed Steer didn't get any hits yesterday.
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Chip R (09-07-2022)
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Spencer Steer, making his MLB debut tonight, will play “as much as possible,” David Bell said, and all around the field.
Steer played second base, third base, shortstop, right field and first base in Triple-A.
10 pitch Walk for his first AB.... looked solid! Crushed the 9th pitch just foul.
It's extremely early but I liked what I saw from his approach.
“As long as I have fun playing, the stats will take care of themselves.”
-- Ken Griffey, Jr.
Ron Madden (09-02-2022)
Now a homer in his second PA! Nice first day!
“The guys we've had for the most part have been serviceable at this level.”
mth123 (09-02-2022),Ron Madden (09-02-2022)
That'll work.
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)
Ron Madden (09-02-2022)
Looks like he has a very good plate approach.
Ron Madden (09-02-2022)
First MLB game…
HR, 2B, 2BB, and scores the winning run.
The bad news is that it’s all downhill for Steer from here on out.
Hoping to change my username to 75769024
What a game from Steer.
He looks like a real presence in the box.
Makes next season look a little brighter already.
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"Bullpen, or whatever."
Chip R (09-07-2022)
Steer gets called up to the majors. Hits a home run, scores the winning run. As everyone celebrates, we see a look of horror come over his face and the camera pans out to reveal that we’ve been in Great American Ballpark this whole time and Steer is a member of the Cincinnati Reds.
Rod Serling steps out.
Last edited by Larry Schuler; 09-02-2022 at 09:53 PM.
NebraskaRed (09-03-2022)
Yep.
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)
JarrodOnVinyl (09-03-2022),Ron Madden (09-02-2022)
I’m a ballplayer fan, this guy just crawled into the ranking list
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I was a little leery about the power potential when I saw he was 5-11, but both Steer and Encarnacion-Strand (who is 6-0) seem to generate significant lower-half power.
So maybe those MiLB HR stats (CES has 30) aren't just mirages.
Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement. --- Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
Yeah, me too. Guy just seems like a baller.
“It’s the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living.”
---- Bill Vaughn
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved." ---Tim Minchin("Storm")
I'm hoping his early minor league approach-- wherein he rarely struck out but produced and exhibited great patience-- might meld with the power stroke he's found over the past two seasons to form a guy who's very interesting. (I suspect the power approach is a case of sacrificing a few hits and quite a few Ks for HR, but perhaps he can further refine it-- last night, he seemed to change his approach once he got two strikes. I'd love that to be the case moving forward.)
Regardless, Steer looks like a middling offensive starter, capable of providing above average production from a variety of positions.
That in itself has some monster value.
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