The new ball has helped him a lot like it's helped many pitchers. He lost his command after they checked for sticky stuff last season.
It's funny to me when guys make statements like this. It makes them sound so unbelievably fragile, mentally. You couldn't deal with one (potentially) bad call at the very beginning of the game that resulted in a baserunner on first? Really?
Within the people around the team the Maldonado talk is several levels higher than that. It’s cult like.
I've heard so many different interpretations of what constitutes a swing and a checked swing, I have no clue. And I'm firmly convinced the Game officials don't either.
Disingenuous at best. Framber would love to discuss the 4th inning with you. Surely the inning going south couldn't be because the only strikes he was throwing were meatballs centered up. Must be a bad call by the umpire
Bad look for Carrasco. Guys don't say things like that unless they are worried about keeping a job. Sounds of desperation. He has good off-speed stuff but its a clear mental issue.
It's like good art: you know it when you see it Also, the only camera view that's worthwhile is from the side, so that tweet is pretty useless
He might be. Mets twitter was skewering him for those comments. They’re not happy w his production this year. None of them think he’d make a playoff roster.
Really got to love how they are playing the 2 teams with the best records in each league. Minus 2 implosions by the bullpen.... Starting pitching has been nails. And you've got to love what the bats have been doing recently.... Taking it to NY.
I seem to remember a recent game where 2 of three balls were well within the strike zone while playing the Yankees. But the pitcher didn't throw a hissy fit and induced a double play ball.
I respectfully disagree. Bad art sells for a ton because, like the Emperors new cloths, no one wants to to be the first to say it while mingling with boorish snobs. Give me a break. A can of soup? It's same when umpiring FOR the Yankees. But they forgot to tell the replay officials. We got fair calls from them.
Maybe Dusty is thinking of Meyers as kind of a secondary leadoff guy? Get someone with speed on the bases ahead of Altuve? Didn't Tony LaRussa do something similar in the past by batting his pitcher 8th in order to have another, better hitter potentially ahead of McGuire in the 3rd slot, or something? Not saying that is a move that makes sense, I'm just wondering if that is Dusty's mindset.
Clearly, he did not swing so what this guy is even talking about? You want to see a swing called a ball...you only need to go back to the Yankees series where one or two went against us where the Yankees clearly swung but it was ruled not a swing. It was the wrong call only because it went against you and you couldn't come back from it.
