In the last 2 days.

[SlappyUtilityMIF]

Braves Strider, Indians Bieber, Yanks Loaisiga, Marlins Perez... All are having Tommy John, that's a good rotation there!

[Taylor]

*Guardians

[SlappyUtilityMIF]

2 hours ago, Taylor said:

*Guardians

Never! I'd rather they were called the Spiders... 

[Second Base]

That’s the Angels plan for contention this year. Attrition. Everyone else will get hurt, and they’ll have the same crappy pitchers go 130 innings each after they get bombed out by the 4th inning every start. 
 

It’ll be hilarious when it predictably backfires. 

[SlappyUtilityMIF]

1 hour ago, Second Base said:

That’s the Angels plan for contention this year. Attrition. Everyone else will get hurt, and they’ll have the same crappy pitchers go 130 innings each after they get bombed out by the 4th inning every start. 
 

It’ll be hilarious when it predictably backfires. 

Part of me wants to agree with you 2B...

The other part has been watching how the staff evolves behind Enright. 

Sandavol I'll know more in 5-8 starts if it's all mental and he's a complete mess.

Canning battled and gutted 4 and 2/3rds last night even with giving up those bombs. That was based more on location which is fixable.

I like how Anderson has gotten ahead in the count and has pitched to contact more. That brings in the Washington infield work.  Which was questionable the first 2 games fielding wise.

Currently, I'm hopefully optimistic....

[arch stanton]

I'm not a pitching guru but after watching baseball for 50 years the changes in pitching are pretty obvious. We've gone from the drop and drive, find the corners approach to squeeze the ball and throw from over the top of a stiff leg and get as much spin and movement as possible. You can't rely on locating pitches down and away because you can't force them off the plate. Hitters are fully armored and looking to crush anything away. It's time to accept that body armor, maple bats, full time weight training, etc have made conventional baseball stadium dimensions obselete and forced pitchers to work that much harder for every out

[SlappyUtilityMIF]

[redoctober2002]

Truth be told, I don't think anyone is buying the pitch clock argument. Everything I've seen is it's usually a combination of max effort every pitch and year round travel ball while growing up. This trend has been going on for what, 7 years now (when did The Arm get published)? Seems like every year there's a stretch where a bunch of top tier pitchers get hurt and we have this same discussion then nothing changes.

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Still nobody signing Bauer. 

[SlappyUtilityMIF]

One of the things Verlander talks about is kids pushing to throw harder earlier and younger. Which could be back at the gurus- drivelines.. parents pushing for scholarships, and top high school programs.

For the Show he talks about analytics..

[CaliAngel]

On 4/8/2024 at 6:41 PM, SlappyUtilityMIF said:

Alex Curry, still a smokeshow.

[Angelsjunky]

On 4/6/2024 at 5:13 PM, Taylor said:

*Guardians