MLB 2023

[TSwizzle]

Game four ended with the Dodgers getting battered. At last, after being 3-0 down the Yankees came on to a game and spanked the Dodgers bullpen 4-11. Freddie Freeman hit a home run in his sixth consecutive World Series game. No team has come back from three games down in the World Series. The cynic in me thinks this series will be forced back to Los Angeles for game six and Dodgers win in front of their own fans.

Yankees fans doing Yankee shit again. A couple of fans tried to get the glove off Mookie Betts when he caught a ball at the outfield wall. Two fans kicked out of the game.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Thank goodness that is over. NY v LA in the World Series? No one leaves that happy except maybe the 2,000 non-fairweather Dodgers fans sprinkled out in the nation.

 

[TSwizzle]

What a game, one that will be remembered for a long time. Dodgers looked dead and buried going into the fifth inning 5-0 down and the bullpen wobbling. And the a catastrophe for the Yankees in a series of defensive errors starting with Aaron Judge dropping a routine fly ball. The Dodgers went on to score five runs in the fifth to tie the game and take the wind out of the Yankee sails. Poor Cole, he was robbed.

And Los Angeles fans celebrated the win in their customary fashion with vandalism, looting stores and donuts in major intersections.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

So Suzuki was one vote shy of 100% to get into the Hall of Fame. Suzuki made me think of... what was him name... he signed with the Yankees back in 97 or 98... big ... Irabu... Hideki Irabu... that's the one. I was interning that summer in Connecticut and living in NYC, so I was very familiar with the hype that was Irabu. You'd swear the guy was Jesus. Pitched his first game (against the Tigers?, it was a weak team). Game went well, and everyone knew he would be the guy. I kept saying it was a bit early to tell... and then he wasn't able to live up to what was really ridiculous amounts of hype that'd be hard for anyone to live up to.

But this isn't why I'm posting. In looking things up, I had forgotten that the Expos traded for him. Three players! I was shocked. None of them had Hall of Fame careers. But two had careers in the MLB, unlike Irabu. I want to consider that one of the worst trades in MLB history!

 

[blastula]

Today:

 

[robnisch]

What exactly is a torpedo bat? Who invented it? Is it legal? Everything to know

Reds' superstar Elly De La Cruz became the latest MLB player to smash a home run with a torpedo bat, but what is it? And are the bats legal?

www.cincinnati.com

I know a lighter bat swings faster. but these bats weigh the same. Just have their mass in a different place.
Thoughts?

 

[Tharmas]

What exactly is a torpedo bat? Who invented it? Is it legal? Everything to know

Reds' superstar Elly De La Cruz became the latest MLB player to smash a home run with a torpedo bat, but what is it? And are the bats legal?

www.cincinnati.com

I know a lighter bat swings faster. but these bats weigh the same. Just have their mass in a different place.
Thoughts?

I saw a brief segment on this in the evening news.

The most mass in a typical bat is at the tip, where it’s thickest. A torpedo bat has a bulge somewhere near the middle, just below the “sweet spot,” so yes, you could say the most mass is in a different place. I guess the regulations specify a maximum diameter, but don't specify where that should be.

 

[robnisch]

What exactly is a torpedo bat? Who invented it? Is it legal? Everything to know

Reds' superstar Elly De La Cruz became the latest MLB player to smash a home run with a torpedo bat, but what is it? And are the bats legal?

www.cincinnati.com

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I know a lighter bat swings faster. but these bats weigh the same. Just have their mass in a different place.
Thoughts?

I saw a brief segment on this in the evening news.

The most mass in a typical bat is at the tip, where it’s thickest. A torpedo bat has a bulge somewhere near the middle, just below the “sweet spot,” so yes, you could say the most mass is in a different place. I guess the regulations specify a maximum diameter, but don't specify where that should be.

Yes, they seem to be legal, but will they produce more homeruns?
I'm more of a Cob, Ichiro kind of fan. Put the ball where it will get you on base.

 

[TV and credit cards]

What exactly is a torpedo bat? Who invented it? Is it legal? Everything to know

Reds' superstar Elly De La Cruz became the latest MLB player to smash a home run with a torpedo bat, but what is it? And are the bats legal?

www.cincinnati.com

more
I know a lighter bat swings faster. but these bats weigh the same. Just have their mass in a different place.
Thoughts?

I saw a brief segment on this in the evening news.

The most mass in a typical bat is at the tip, where it’s thickest. A torpedo bat has a bulge somewhere near the middle, just below the “sweet spot,” so yes, you could say the most mass is in a different place. I guess the regulations specify a maximum diameter, but don't specify where that should be.

Yes, they seem to be legal, but will they produce more homeruns?
I'm more of a Cob, Ichiro kind of fan. Put the ball where it will get you on base.

I suppose you're less likely to foul off a pitch that runs in on the hands (two seam fastball and cutter).

 

[bilby]

I suppose you're less likely to foul off a pitch that runs in on the hands (two seam fastball and cutter).

Every word of that is a valid English word, and yet I still have zero clue what you just said.

Despite my awareness that what baseball people call a "pitch" doesn't pitch at all, and is what a cricketer would call a chucked full toss.

 

[robnisch]

I suppose you're less likely to foul off a pitch that runs in on the hands (two seam fastball and cutter).

Every word of that is a valid English word, and yet I still have zero clue what you just said.

Despite my awareness that what baseball people call a "pitch" doesn't pitch at all, and is what a cricketer would call a chucked full toss.

Rounders - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

It has its roots in the UK.

 

[bilby]

I suppose you're less likely to foul off a pitch that runs in on the hands (two seam fastball and cutter).

Every word of that is a valid English word, and yet I still have zero clue what you just said.

Despite my awareness that what baseball people call a "pitch" doesn't pitch at all, and is what a cricketer would call a chucked full toss.

Rounders - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

It has its roots in the UK.

I know. George Bernard Shaw described it as "a game played by English schoolgirls, and American millionaires".

 

[TV and credit cards]

I suppose you're less likely to foul off a pitch that runs in on the hands (two seam fastball and cutter).

Every word of that is a valid English word, and yet I still have zero clue what you just said.

Despite my awareness that what baseball people call a "pitch" doesn't pitch at all, and is what a cricketer would call a chucked full toss.

Yeah, I remember sitting in the garage back in the '90s watching a game when my then wife walked by as the announcer referred to a lazy fly ball as a "can of corn". Oh the look on her face.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

I suppose you're less likely to foul off a pitch that runs in on the hands (two seam fastball and cutter).

Every word of that is a valid English word, and yet I still have zero clue what you just said.

Despite my awareness that what baseball people call a "pitch" doesn't pitch at all, and is what a cricketer would call a chucked full toss.

Foul off - the batter makes contact with the ball, but it does not enter the field of play between the baselines, i.e. not a "fair" ball.

Runs in on the hands - the pitched ball starts its trajectory toward the center of the target (home plate), but curves toward the batter's body, restricting his swing and/or hitting a part of the bat that imparts less power.

Two seam fastball and cutter - two of several methods for throwing the ball to vary velocity and/or deviation from the original flight path, achieved by using different methods of gripping the ball and variations of the arm angle when throwing it.

 

[robnisch]

The Science Behind the MLB 'Torpedo' Bats That Everyone's Talking About—How Do They Work? And Are They Really Better?

Developed by a physicist, these bats have their widest part, called the barrel, closer to the player's hands to offer a better chance of hitting the ball on their "sweet spot"

www.smithsonianmag.com

Just as I thought.
More area to contact ball in the sweet zone and more swing speed.
I don't like what it will do to the Game!