May Game Thread

[Todd]

have had an invention idea in my head for quite some time but have no idea how to get it off the ground.

Basically it is a giant mat with squares that simulates a pitch box and what surrounds it.

Each square is hooked up to a sensor that sends data to software on a laptop.

It goes through pitch sequences and locations. You input what pitches the pitcher throws or wants to try. It cycles through.

Say the pitcher throws 4 seam, splitter, cutter, and change. The program will say cutter low and inside, and you have to hit that square. Splitter belt high, you have to hit it. Just over and over until you can hit your spots. The extra squares are for teaching how to accurately locate chase pitches.

It tells you were to throw, the software linked to the mat tells you if you are accurate. Basically just a program to make a young arm master pitch location while also working on the actual quality of their pitches at the same time.

[Nick]

Alfaro with another massive dong.

[fish16]

Always nice going checking the score before I do something and we’re down and then coming out and finding we’re up 10-1. Harold Ramirez is a legit bat

[tjfla]

I get not being able to sign people, but not being able to trade IFA money at all for 2 weeks? That seems stupid.

Well its a dead period so they can change everything over to new season. If u have money left for 2018 it gets wiped out. Always ways around stuff-u can trade Romo for Future Considerations and on July 3 get IFA cash

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Agreed. There seems to be a lot of short sighted provisions in this cba that need to be fixed. That and tying draft pick compensation to teams that sign good free agents is foolish, all you’re doing is making your best feee agent players market significantly worse due to no part of their own. It’s absurd that teams are going out and legitimately saying that they will be interested in guys like Kimbrel and keuchel AFTER the draft once the draft xompensation is no longer tied. That’s an awful rule

Has to do with more than that. Keuchel and Kimbrel want 5/100 deals and the teams that they want to go to are offering 1 year deals. It will be interesting to see the deals they sign-Minnesota,SD and TB have had long term offers out them since Feb but none of them wanted to go there

[gustavopim]

have had an invention idea in my head for quite some time but have no idea how to get it off the ground.

Basically it is a giant mat with squares that simulates a pitch box and what surrounds it.

Each square is hooked up to a sensor that sends data to software on a laptop.

It goes through pitch sequences and locations. You input what pitches the pitcher throws or wants to try. It cycles through.

Say the pitcher throws 4 seam, splitter, cutter, and change. The program will say cutter low and inside, and you have to hit that square. Splitter belt high, you have to hit it. Just over and over until you can hit your spots. The extra squares are for teaching how to accurately locate chase pitches.

It tells you were to throw, the software linked to the mat tells you if you are accurate. Basically just a program to make a young arm master pitch location while also working on the actual quality of their pitches at the same time.

I read somewhere that MLB clubs and others having been doing something similar. They've been using VR glasses to show a pitcher and how their pitches come out, arm slots, spins and etc. Pretty cool ideia altogether tho!

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I had the nicest conversation with Gary Denbo yesterday at the ballpark. I got free tickets yesterday because a friend couldn't make it. In the 5th inning I moved closer to home plate, on the third base side.

I look to my side and there he is, Gary Denbo. I asked him "are you Gary Denbo?" Yes I am. "Can I take a selfie with you". Sure! Then he made some questions, how long I was a Marlins fan, how many games I usually go, where do I live and then started talking about our MILB players.

" I don't know if you've seen but our Triple A team has a bunch of hot bats. Isan hit 5 homers in 5 days, Harrison is doing well and Brinson has been swinging the bat better there. Once they're all up this team is going to be so much fun"

"I believe that our 5 starting pitchers in Jupiter will be MLB pitchers. Holloway stuff is pretty amazing, he's coming off Tommy John surgery and he's still getting the feel for the ball. Pitchers that come out of Tommy John take about a year, no no, I would say 3/4 of a season to get their feel back, so that's why he's giving so many walks"

"I wish that we could have more fans like you, that can see the good things in the Minor Leagues and support the Big league team"

He was really nice and honestly interested in talking to me and explaining about your players. After he was talking to someone in the Marlins org I don't know and I tried to eavesdrop but I couldn't listen to much lol. I'm pretty sure I heard them say " he has a real love for the game of baseball" and that was it.

[Lee Stone]

I read somewhere that MLB clubs and others having been doing something similar. They've been using VR glasses to show a pitcher and how their pitches come out, arm slots, spins and etc. Pretty cool ideia altogether tho!

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I had the nicest conversation with Gary Denbo yesterday at the ballpark. I got free tickets yesterday because a friend couldn't make it. In the 5th inning I moved closer to home plate, on the third base side.

I look to my side and there he is, Gary Denbo. I asked him "are you Gary Denbo?" Yes I am. "Can I take a selfie with you". Sure! Then he made some questions, how long I was a Marlins fan, how many games I usually go, where do I live and then started talking about our MILB players.

" I don't know if you've seen but our Triple A team has a bunch of hot bats. Isan hit 5 homers in 5 days, Harrison is doing well and Brinson has been swinging the bat better there. Once they're all up this team is going to be so much fun"

"I believe that our 5 starting pitchers in Jupiter will be MLB pitchers. Holloway stuff is pretty amazing, he's coming off Tommy John surgery and he's still getting the feel for the ball. Pitchers that come out of Tommy John take about a year, no no, I would say 3/4 of a season to get their feel back, so that's why he's giving so many walks"

"I wish that we could have more fans like you, that can see the good things in the Minor Leagues and support the Big league team"

He was really nice and honestly interested in talking to me and explaining about your players. After he was talking to someone in the Marlins org I don't know and I tried to eavesdrop but I couldn't listen to much lol. I'm pretty sure I heard them say " he has a real love for the game of baseball" and that was it.

Thanks for sharing that. "He has a real love for the game of baseball" was likely a reference to Harold Ramirez. When I saw him a couple times in spring training, he seemed to be in Seventh Heaven.

Lots of subjectivity shows in Denbo's remarks. How could he reasonably attribute Holloway's high walk rate to his TJS when he had the very same problem prior to his injury? And pinpointing Diaz, Harrison, and (good grief) Brinson as the guys who will make Miami "fun to watch" shows lingering sensitivity about that Yelich deal ... he's still wishin' and hopin'.

[fish16]

Thanks for sharing that. "He has a real love for the game of baseball" was likely a reference to Harold Ramirez. When I saw him a couple times in spring training, he seemed to be in Seventh Heaven.

Lots of subjectivity shows in Denbo's remarks. How could he reasonably attribute Holloway's high walk rate to his TJS when he had the very same problem prior to his injury? And pinpointing Diaz, Harrison, and (good grief) Brinson as the guys who will make Miami "fun to watch" shows lingering sensitivity about that Yelich deal ... he's still wishin' and hopin'.

hmmm, do we listen to gary denbo's evaluation of the farm system or the guy who in the last 2 years has been high on Justin Twine, Ben Meyer, Jeff Brigham, etc. etc. etc.

[Lee Stone]

hmmm, do we listen to gary denbo's evaluation of the farm system or the guy who in the last 2 years has been high on Justin Twine, Ben Meyer, Jeff Brigham, etc. etc. etc.

You need to talk about baseball and dispense with attacking/attempting to belittle others. It's an ugly look.

[rmc523]

https://theathletic.com/990285/2019/...miami-marlins/

Here's a "what if" article on if we kept everyone and hadn't made the stupid trades shipping out Paddack, Castillo, Williams, German, etc. and what kind of team we'd have.

[fish16]

You need to talk about baseball and dispense with attacking/attempting to belittle others. It's an ugly look.

that's not a personal attack, that's a baseball argument that you have absolutely 0 idea how to evaluate minor league talent while saying that denbo is trying to cover for the yelich trade.

[fish16]

pablo lopez is phenomenal at home. if only he can figure it out on the road. He still reminds me so much of a healthy henderson alvarez.

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also can we just release prado already? the guy is an absolute shell of himself and just a waste of ab's that could be going to someone who might have a future on the team.

[fish16]

Romo had absolutely no control of his offspeed pitches tonight. He was lucky to get through that inning. Good win. 9 of 12 I think. Over 43

[Erick]

Romo had absolutely no control of his offspeed pitches tonight. He was lucky to get through that inning. Good win. 9 of 12 I think. Over 43

I disagree. That's kind of the way he pitches. He was actually unlucky to allow the run. The 2B to Posey wasn't a bad pitch and the Sandoval single was weak. He's gotten a lot of weak contact this year and is also averaging over a K per inning. Hopefully other front offices are seeing it that way + the fact that he's been good in high leverage situations. He's 11-for-12 in save situations, and should be 12-for-12...bad defense in Detroit cost him a blown save.

[fish16]

I disagree. That's kind of the way he pitches. He was actually unlucky to allow the run. The 2B to Posey wasn't a bad pitch and the Sandoval single was weak. He's gotten a lot of weak contact this year and is also averaging over a K per inning. Hopefully other front offices are seeing it that way + the fact that he's been good in high leverage situations. He's 11-for-12 in save situations, and should be 12-for-12...bad defense in Detroit cost him a blown save.

Ya, if you look at his numbers by month he's been great in both april and may after a bad couple of games in march. You might be right, i just noticed a lot of breaking balls not breaking correctly and all tailing towards the 3rd base dugout rather than breaking the correct way.

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It's amazing how not historically awful the lineup is when you play legit major leaguers like Ramirez and Cooper rather than Herrera, Galloway, Berti, insert other crappy names here. I started the year thinking we would win around 70, I still see in that general area, probably between 65-70.

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Going for our 3rd sweep in 4 series tomorrow because baseball.

[Todd]

I personally think Lopez can be a #1 and I know that might make me sound crazy, especially with the increase in fastball velocity.

What I think would make the difference is adding in a sinker and cutter in the offseason. Use the cutter on righties as his jam pitch and the sinker as his K pitch. He seems like the type that could incorporate a filthy sinker that just plummets out of the zone.