On a nail-biting weekend of baseball, Stripling vs. Verlander, Springer's homecoming, Manoah the Man, MV-esPinal, Zack Collins, Gurriel, a wild Sunday, prospects, and more!
Finally had an opportunity to listen to one of your podcasts and real enjoyed it! As a fellow pessimist, I'm so glad that Nick Ashbourne admits he tends to be on the negative side. It's always more rewarding in the end to be wrong. But I think the panic factor for Ryu should be extreme - not just for his own performance, but for the fact that we can't really afford to 'lose' a quality starter. That's a hole that will need to be filled, particularly if another starter (Kikuchi?) proves problematic. Apologies for all my comments - I think I've mentioned before that I'm baseball starved here in Australia. This is an outlet for me and I enjoy your stuff immensely!
Glad you enjoy it and the podcasts, man. Sorry I'm less responsive here than I should be. I'm always on that damn Twitter machine, but will try to hit folks back around here more often. I definitely appreciate it!!
I'm really hyped about Tiedemann. Just to mention that this week might be one of the few times to see him on MILB.TV this year as they are playing Bradenton and those games are televised, unlike those in Dunedin and most of the other parks in that league. I assume his next start would be this Friday, maybe plus or minus a day, who knows.
Yeah, I really wish Dunedin was televised, but getting the Statcast info from their games is pretty cool. I couldn't tell you where their starters line up, but he's definitely a pretty exciting one. Per BA he was 89-92 and touching 94 heading into the draft, so those are some big velo gains in a pretty short time!
Finally had an opportunity to listen to one of your podcasts and real enjoyed it! As a fellow pessimist, I'm so glad that Nick Ashbourne admits he tends to be on the negative side. It's always more rewarding in the end to be wrong. But I think the panic factor for Ryu should be extreme - not just for his own performance, but for the fact that we can't really afford to 'lose' a quality starter. That's a hole that will need to be filled, particularly if another starter (Kikuchi?) proves problematic. Apologies for all my comments - I think I've mentioned before that I'm baseball starved here in Australia. This is an outlet for me and I enjoy your stuff immensely!
Glad you enjoy it and the podcasts, man. Sorry I'm less responsive here than I should be. I'm always on that damn Twitter machine, but will try to hit folks back around here more often. I definitely appreciate it!!
I'm really hyped about Tiedemann. Just to mention that this week might be one of the few times to see him on MILB.TV this year as they are playing Bradenton and those games are televised, unlike those in Dunedin and most of the other parks in that league. I assume his next start would be this Friday, maybe plus or minus a day, who knows.
Yeah, I really wish Dunedin was televised, but getting the Statcast info from their games is pretty cool. I couldn't tell you where their starters line up, but he's definitely a pretty exciting one. Per BA he was 89-92 and touching 94 heading into the draft, so those are some big velo gains in a pretty short time!