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Popete posted:Maybe just maybe Barry Bonds like many other great hitters is not very good at coaching others how to hit. I know this might blow a lot of peoples minds that Barry could possibly be bad at something. Maybe just maybe a team that has 3 dudes with a reasonable chance to hit 20 homeruns isn't built very well.
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Oct 4, 2016 02:59
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Popete posted:Led by some guy named Scooter probably. Realistically we have a spot at either 1B, 3B or LF to fill with a prospect if we're aiming to improve internally. Among possible prospects the most Cardinals names I can think of from our system would be either Harrison Bader, Bryce Denton or Walker Robbins. Only Bader is old enough to actually have a shot at making the roster. Get working on your "Harrison Bader" puns/insults now.
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Oct 4, 2016 03:01
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Does Coach Barry still have that sweet leather recliner all for himself in the clubhouse?
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Oct 4, 2016 03:21
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Suspiciously low number of domestic abuse charges filed against the Marlins this year lead Loria to believe Bonds was holding back on teaching them everything he knew about hitting.
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Oct 4, 2016 03:35
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Beller posted:Suspiciously low number of domestic abuse charges filed against the Marlins this year lead Loria to believe Bonds was holding back on teaching them everything he knew about hitting. I dunno, Fernandez hit the jetty pretty hard.
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Oct 4, 2016 03:39
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Maybe just maybe a team that has 3 dudes with a reasonable chance to hit 20 homeruns isn't built very well. Idk, the Giants HR leader was Brandon Belt with 17, and no one else hit 15 or more, and they're in the play-offs.
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Oct 4, 2016 03:52
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Beller posted:Suspiciously low number of domestic abuse charges filed against the Marlins this year lead Loria to believe Bonds was holding back on teaching them everything he knew about hitting. D-
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Oct 4, 2016 04:10
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davecrazy posted:I dunno, Fernandez hit the jetty pretty hard. Swing and a miss
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Oct 4, 2016 04:14
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TheIncredulousHulk posted:Jesus Christ. loving Joe West is the crew chief for the AL WC game/1v4 seed ALDS I would like to know exactly how many top baseball officials he has naked pictures of in order to a) stay employed this long, and b) work the loving playoffs.
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Oct 4, 2016 04:25
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It appears LaRussa is on his way out of Arizona as well, just maybe not right this second: http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2016/10/tony-la-russa-wont-run-d-backs-baseball-ops-future-with-org-uncertain.html
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Oct 4, 2016 04:43
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FlamingLiberal posted:It appears LaRussa is on his way out of Arizona as well, just maybe not right this second: LaRussa's new job is to be the guy enforcing the dress code behind home plate.
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Oct 4, 2016 05:10
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Crazy Ted posted:If you'll believe this afternoon's ESPN report, when Bonds was critical of a player's batting it was to the point of being cantankerous, and Giancarlo Stanton started to completely tune him out as a result. I have no inside knowledge but its pretty standard for the true best of the best in terms of ability to be terrible coaches. Gretzky, etc. How exactly do you give pointers and things to work on when your whole career you were just insanely more talented and natural then everyone else? How much can you demand out of your players when in your own experience, when you tried hard you were the best player alive?
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Oct 4, 2016 05:31
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patonthebach posted:I have no inside knowledge but its pretty standard for the true best of the best in terms of ability to be terrible coaches. Gretzky, etc. How exactly do you give pointers and things to work on when your whole career you were just insanely more talented and natural then everyone else? How much can you demand out of your players when in your own experience, when you tried hard you were the best player alive? Well if that Josh Donaldson video from last month is any indication, not being a literal idiot about physics has a lot going for it. "If your Little League coach tells you to get on top of the ball, you tell him 'No.'"
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Oct 4, 2016 05:36
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If you watch any of the instructional videos that Mattingly, Gwynn or Ripken put out they were all pretty terrible hitting instructors. Of course no one wants to tell Tony Gwynn that what he's saying makes absolutely no sense. It mostly comes down to them naturally being good at hitting but not understanding why or even what they did that made them good, a lot of repeating the instructions they heard growing up from their coaches. With modern swing analysis provided by hitting sensors and high speed cameras I think hitting analysis has come a long way. Being a good instructor doesn't always come from being a good hitter.
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Oct 4, 2016 06:11
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Bonds psyched out Joc Pederson during a crucial playoff run and beat Giancarlo Stanton in a home run derby. It's not his fault Stanton isn't good at hitting dingers.
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patonthebach posted:I have no inside knowledge but its pretty standard for the true best of the best in terms of ability to be terrible coaches. Gretzky, etc. How exactly do you give pointers and things to work on when your whole career you were just insanely more talented and natural then everyone else? How much can you demand out of your players when in your own experience, when you tried hard you were the best player alive? You're absolutely right too. Everything I've ever read about guys like Ted Williams, Magic Johnson, Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jordan from when they've coached or tried to work with people indicate that they were very hard to work with and couldn't figure out why their players just couldn't figure out how to perform to their standards.
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Oct 4, 2016 06:31
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Rand alPaul posted:It's not his fault Stanton isn't good at hitting dingers.
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Oct 4, 2016 06:32
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It's been a few days, but in response to this: I am still this: http://imgur.com/EtyCHzK.mp4
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Oct 4, 2016 07:29
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New Concept Hole posted:Idk, the Giants HR leader was Brandon Belt with 17, and no one else hit 15 or more, and they're in the play-offs. Ya but they weren't a good hitting team either and its not really my point anyway. Maybe using HRs was a dumb way to put it, but the Marlins aren't a well built offensive team. They weren't any better this year than last offensively, the uptick in their runs scored and OPS is about on par with what happened across MLB.
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Oct 4, 2016 08:00
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Ya but they weren't a good hitting team either and its not really my point anyway. But if you didn't go with home runs I wouldn't have been able to point out how hilarious the Giants' HR totals were this season, so it all worked out.
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Oct 4, 2016 08:29
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Oct 4, 2016 08:37
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I could definitely see Bonds being a terrible hitting coach. "Have you considered hitting home runs? Hmmm... okay... what about intentional walks? Look just be so good at home runs you get a ton of intentional walks it's not that hard"
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Oct 4, 2016 08:50
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Several reports are saying the guy basically checked out mid season but lol sure guys Barry can do no wrong
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Crazy Ted posted:Stanton rules at hitting dingers - it's just that he's awful at staying healthy long enough to hit lots of dingers. 27 dingers? Barry has that at the break. *click* Spoeank posted:I could definitely see Bonds being a terrible hitting coach. "Have you considered hitting home runs? Hmmm... okay... what about intentional walks? Look just be so good at home runs you get a ton of intentional walks it's not that hard" I imagine he took guys in to look at video and just shook his head slowly the entire time. Rand alPaul fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Oct 4, 2016 |
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Oct 4, 2016 09:43
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lol at complaining about what time your LDS game is, as if bad scheduling that favors the big markets hasn't been a thing as long as there have been 4 division series'.
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Oct 4, 2016 12:48
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Uh, go Mets I guess?? The Giants just scare the poo poo out of me.
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There's been a few cases of amazing career hitters being really bad hitting coaches. Paul Molitor was pretty bad for the Mariners when he was our hitting coach. Being amazingly good at something doesn't make you good at teaching it, imagine that.
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Oct 4, 2016 14:27
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bad boy in the boy band posted:Uh, go Mets I guess?? Personally rooting for a non-communicable, horribly, though non-painfully, debilitating plague to strike the position players and pitchers of both teams
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Oct 4, 2016 15:08
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Go Mets. I want no part of EYBS
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bad boy in the boy band posted:Uh, go Mets I guess?? Mets won't win unless Cespedes singly handily wins the game. Lineup is dreadful vs lefties.
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NiceGuy posted:Several reports are saying the guy basically checked out mid season but lol sure guys Barry can do no wrong The reports are out of the Marlins clubhouse so they may or may not be true!
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Oct 4, 2016 15:34
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Josh Donaldson should release a series of videos just titled "why your little league coach is wrong"
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davecrazy posted:Mets won't win unless Cespedes singly handily wins the game. Lineup is dreadful vs lefties. It's most likely not gonna be a high-scoring game but if it's close late in the game we've definitely got a chance, Giants bullpen has been terrible lately.
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Rick Renteria is a pretty  manager hiring for the White Sox. The interesting thing now is to see if this offseason will be a teardown or not.As for the playoffs, I just want anyone but the Cubs or Indians.
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Oct 4, 2016 16:00
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Inspector_666 posted:For the WC games: go O's, go Giants. 
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Julio Cruz posted:It's most likely not gonna be a high-scoring game but if it's close late in the game we've definitely got a chance, Giants bullpen has been terrible lately. lol if you think MadBum wouldn't pitch 12 innings if it went that far
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Oct 4, 2016 16:12
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Goodpancakes posted:I hope Madbum gets mad and starts a couple bench clearing brawls over dumb stuff All of the Mets should look at him. For the entire game.
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