2023 Game Thread

[Erick]

Luke Weaver is one of the worst starting pitchers in baseball, and the Marlins can’t hit him.

To be fair, we have one of the worst offenses in baseball.

[fish16]

He hasn’t really changed his approach.

He has absolutely changed his approach to go to the opposite field a lot more. This year he is going to the opposite field 35.5% of the time. The 2 years prior it was 27.5 and 26.7. This year he is pulling just 30% of balls. last year it was 42%. As a result he's hitting line drives 27% of the time this year and last year he was hitting them 19% of the time. He's hitting a lot less fly balls as a result this year though and that's why he hasnt been hitting as many homers.

All you have to do is look at his spray chart on baseball savant to see he has clearly changed his approach this year compared to last year.

[fish16]

Xavier edwards 1-2 already tonight. Johnston 1-2 with an RBI. Edwards starting at 3b once again.

[Namaste]

He hasn’t really changed his approach.

Agreed. I was just discussing this last night with a friend. I really like Jesus. Great with the fans, hustles his ass off in the field etc.

But his approach hasn’t changed a bit. Goes up there hacking. Often when he makes contact, he briefly has no idea where the ball is because he swung so hard that he’s off balance. I don’t care what the spray charts say; he’s always hacking and anyone who watches games every night knows that.

[Erick]

Arraez is a leadoff hitter, the best thing he does better than just about anyone is get on base lol.

Put him in the two or three hole and he’d just hit into more double plays like he did last night.

What a weird thing to complain about.

As I said this morning lol.

What a dumb lineup change by a team that’s become dumb again.

[fish16]

this team just has no ability to produce big hits. 3rd in hits all year in all of baseball, 21st in doubles,26th in home runs. impossible to combine the hits into runs with how bad the plate discipline is for guys like Sanchez, DLC, Burger, Wendle, Stallings, Fortes, and even jazz against lefties. 27th in walks. Horrific plate discipline up and down the lineup and no ability to drive in runs in bulk.

[Erick]

He has absolutely changed his approach to go to the opposite field a lot more. This year he is going to the opposite field 35.5% of the time. The 2 years prior it was 27.5 and 26.7. This year he is pulling just 30% of balls. last year it was 42%. As a result he's hitting line drives 27% of the time this year and last year he was hitting them 19% of the time. He's hitting a lot less fly balls as a result this year though and that's why he hasnt been hitting as many homers.

All you have to do is look at his spray chart on baseball savant to see he has clearly changed his approach this year compared to last year.

I thought you meant more like his chase rate, etc.

His launch angle is way down this year too. Even though I’m not sure the change is too bad for him, his overall metrics are better than last year.

He still has his fair share of silly at bats too though like his last one. But I won’t complain about his production, I guess you take what you can with this organization and hitters.

[Erick]

LMAO!!!!!!!

[fish16]

Agreed. I was just discussing this last night with a friend. I really like Jesus. Great with the fans, hustles his ass off in the field etc.

But his approach hasn’t changed a bit. Goes up there hacking. Often when he makes contact, he briefly has no idea where the ball is because he swung so hard that he’s off balance. I don’t care what the spray charts say; he’s always hacking and anyone who watches games every night knows that.

he definitely goes up there hacking but he is clearly trying to go the way. the numbers dont lie. He still has 0 plate discipline and he swings out of his shoes way too often.

[Namaste]

Jesus Sanchez and Nick Fortes just did the impossible

[fish16]

I thought you meant more like his chase rate, etc.

His launch angle is way down this year too. Even though I’m not sure the change is too bad for him, his overall metrics are better than last year.

He still has his fair share of silly at bats too though like his last one. But I won’t complain about his production, I guess you take what you can with this organization and hitters.

no his plate discipline is still pretty bad. Almost exact same k and BB rate. just trying to go the other way via line drives as opposed to swinging as hard as he can and trying to pull everything 500 feet.

[Nick]

How fucking embarrassing was that?

[fish16]

jesus sanchez with an all time awful play. nick fortes has also had a hand in costing this team almost every single run this series with terrible defense.

[Namaste]

Is that the first inside-the-park HR ever on a bloop hit?

[fish16]

out of all the guys to give that error to on that play they give it to arraez lmao