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    KiDBaZkiT
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    Swinging at the first pitch….

    Gotta be an all time avg of .100 shot almost NEVER and I mean Never works out. I often find myself watching a game and before the AB starts I’m like “Don’t swing at the first pitch” Often times they do and it’s just a soft grounder or a fly out.

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    “I'm not going to take a first-pitch fastball now to get a guy's pitch count up when I will get behind 0-1. That might be the only fastball that I see in that at-bat.”

    Couldn't agree more. If you are looking first pitch fastball and he throws it, bombs away!!!

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    That’s a good article. Some guys have no business swinging at the first pitch. Molina is obviously an exception. Guy has been around forever and is a catcher. Keep in mind this data comes from the same school of data that said to pull Blake Snell in the World Series.

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    Quote Originally Posted by romecloneout View Post
    you post to fukkin much

    what are you trying to do, take over for kvb after he got the ban hammer?

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    My boy Kvb got banned? That’s Fukkin bullshit!!!

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    KVB got banned? I told you that fuxcker was trying to be me. But seriously, what could he be banned for? He’s a total dick I think but he doesn’t do anything worth a ban.

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    It’s kind of creepy how much I have been agreeing with vitterd as of late, what could KVB of gotten banned for? Even vitt admits he didn’t care for the guy and didn’t feel he did anything worthy of being banned.

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    KVB was caught on camera trying to tickle JJGold's raisinets with a peacock feather while Goldy was passed out poolside in a lawn chair at the rehab clinic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KiDBaZkiT View Post
    It’s kind of creepy how much I have been agreeing with vitterd as of late, what could KVB of gotten banned for? Even vitt admits he didn’t care for the guy and didn’t feel he did anything worthy of being banned.
    I’ve long been driven crazy about bans here. I don’t think there should be bans unless it’s something completely outrageous. I get banned for stuff that is completely insane and not even close to ban worthy. If posters were banned for what I was banned for, there would not be one poster here besides that Illini jesus freak guy.

    KVB bugs me to no end but he doesn’t do anything worth a ban. It can be as easy as annoying a mod and boom, banned.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eddy Munny View Post
    KVB was caught on camera trying to tickle JJGold's raisinets with a peacock feather while Goldy was passed out poolside in a lawn chair at the rehab clinic.
    “Raisinets”

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    Hitters 0-3 swinging at first pitch this game. Must just be the games I watch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KiDBaZkiT View Post
    Hitters 0-3 swinging at first pitch this game. Must just be the games I watch.
    A lot of hitters try to ambush the first pitch fastball these days. A few guys are pretty good at it. They think it’s the best pitch they will see. I never took notice how much it works out. There has to be a stat….they have a stat for fuxvking everything.

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    KVB is not banned

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    Hitters now 0-4 on first pitch. I get the “best pitch you are gonna see” logic, but not with Mike Minor on the mound. There is a time and a place. I feel first time through the order nobody should ever swing at the first pitch. Guy on 2nd in a 2 run game, gotta make him throw a few pitches. Especially since KC bullpen nothing to write home about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DiggityDaggityDo View Post
    KVB is not banned
    Good. He better not be. Hopefully we see him and his gifs soon.

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    0-5 now.

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    1-6 now. That one hit made sense though cuz you had a guy coming out of the bullpen you were only going to see one time who obviously was coming in to throw strikes and get out of the inning as soon as possible.

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    In fact, the league hit .343/.355/.597 on the first pitch in 2020

    https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/66153/rubbing-mud-first-pitch-swingers-receive-major-advantage/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chi_archie View Post
    In fact, the league hit .343/.355/.597 on the first pitch in 2020

    https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/66153/rubbing-mud-first-pitch-swingers-receive-major-advantage/
    I read the article Laker posted. Said basically the same thing. They need to break it down more. What is the avg. on first pitch swings from starting pitchers vs relievers/closers? I’ve been bitching about it for years. When I have an under I always want the swing at first pitches. Plus, I don’t know if I even believe that stat. There is a time and a place. When your Catcher works a 7-8 pitch walk in the first inning with two outs in late August and has to have heavy legs and your a struggling Andrew Benintendi, you don’t just flail at the first pitch and immediately end the inning.

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    1-7 now. Not that I care cuz I already got my over. Jus sayin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by romecloneout View Post
    you post to fukkin much

    what are you trying to do, take over for kvb after he got the ban hammer?
    fake news

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    We unbanned him


    He tried to tell lay tough guy with me

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    Quote Originally Posted by cincinnatikid513 View Post
    fake news
    How would KVB get banned? Using the laughing emoji at his own posts that aren’t funny is not a ban offense.

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    He was threatening guys

    Thinks he is mafia

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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    He was threatening guys

    Thinks he is mafia
    Yeah. Donks underboss.

    Had lunch with skinny Joey last week.

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    Wow!!

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