Two Strikes and a Philosophy

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Originally Posted by axg8750

It’s the same stupid base running mistakes, the same weak at bats during clutch situations, and very little progress from promising high school talent that we have been forced to endure the last two seasons!

What more do you need to see? Nothing has changed!

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If you're on base and the next batter is going to get a double, do everything in your power to get off the base path before the double occurs.

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Originally Posted by Turbine

If you're on base and the next batter is going to get a double, do everything in your power to get off the base path before the double occurs.

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Perfect example in Game 2 tonight when Monica finally hit the ball.

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Originally Posted by axg8750

It's the same stupid base running mistakes, the same weak at bats during clutch situations, and very little progress from promising high school talent that we have been forced to endure the last two seasons!

What more do you need to see? Nothing has changed!

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After the first weekend the offense wasn't the big issue. That has certainly evolved since. But I don’t think a coach should be judged until he gets an entire season in. It’s not like canning Wells now will change anything.

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Originally Posted by lifetimecajun

In my mind the philosophy should be to hunt the fastball. A pitch you can handle. I’m not much into zone specific pitches. I would want to attack the fastball. Especially in plus counts 1-0 2-0 2-1 3-0, 3-1 counts. However it seems to me we are looking for more zone specific pitches. I think we need to turn it loose a little and make hard contact in those good counts.

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Depends on the pitcher. As an example; to beat Andy Gros, you had to sit on the change up. His fastball wasn't good enough to get by you if you were sitting change, so you could foul those off, then crush the change when you got it. If you sat fastball against Gros, he would destroy you with the change.

Against a Nolan Ryan, you have to sit fastball, or you'll never touch him. Once he developed a slider to go with the two and four seam FB and the curve, you had to sit fastball and pray. Lol