Free Agent Signings:
Carlos Santana
Mike Minor
Michael Taylor
Ervin Santana
Top 10 Prospects:
1 Bobby Witt Jr., SS
2 Asa Lacy, LHP
3 Daniel Lynch, LHP
4 Jackson Kowar, RHP
5 Erick Pena, OF
6 Nick Loftin, SS
7 Kyle Isbel, OF
8 Khali Lee, OF
9 Jonathan Bowlan, RHP
10 Carlos Hernedez, RHP [Reply]
Originally Posted by cosmo20002:
Tell me more about how your high school pitching coach changed your career. :-)
Also, more on how all the successful teams owe it all to their pitching coach...who is then generally gone a couple years later...because so important
Took the fam on a day trip to NWA yesterday. Hung out in Bentonville for the afternoon (Crystal Bridges, Walmart Museum, town square, lunch). Then went to the ballgame in the evening. Very lousy game for the Naturals. They lost 5-1 and only had 3 hits. Witt, Pratto, and Melendez combined to go 0-11.
However, we had a great time as a family. We had awesome second row seats near the Naturals dugout. We moved out to the outfield for a while, and got a home run ball from a visiting player. First live ball I've ever gotten in my life (probably over 100 live games). A few of the players (Josh Dye, Collin Snider, and Travis Jones) were nice enough to sign the ball after the game for the girls as well.
Originally Posted by Mama Hip Rockets:
Took the fam on a day trip to NWA yesterday. Hung out in Bentonville for the afternoon (Crystal Bridges, Walmart Museum, town square, lunch). Then went to the ballgame in the evening. Very lousy game for the Naturals. They lost 5-1 and only had 3 hits. Witt, Pratto, and Melendez combined to go 0-11.
However, we had a great time as a family. We had awesome second row seats near the Naturals dugout. We moved out to the outfield for a while, and got a home run ball from a visiting player. First live ball I've ever gotten in my life (probably over 100 live games). A few of the players (Josh Dye, Collin Snider, and Travis Jones) were nice enough to sign the ball after the game for the girls as well.
Outstanding!
Enjoy this time with those children. It goes by way to fast!! [Reply]
Originally Posted by cosmo20002:
Tell me more about how your high school pitching coach changed your career. :-)
Also, more on how all the successful teams owe it all to their pitching coach...who is then generally gone a couple years later...because so important
It's pretty hilarious how literally every person on this board hates you. I'm guessing it's very similar in real life also. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mama Hip Rockets:
Took the fam on a day trip to NWA yesterday. Hung out in Bentonville for the afternoon (Crystal Bridges, Walmart Museum, town square, lunch). Then went to the ballgame in the evening. Very lousy game for the Naturals. They lost 5-1 and only had 3 hits. Witt, Pratto, and Melendez combined to go 0-11.
However, we had a great time as a family. We had awesome second row seats near the Naturals dugout. We moved out to the outfield for a while, and got a home run ball from a visiting player. First live ball I've ever gotten in my life (probably over 100 live games). A few of the players (Josh Dye, Collin Snider, and Travis Jones) were nice enough to sign the ball after the game for the girls as well.
Originally Posted by Mama Hip Rockets:
Took the fam on a day trip to NWA yesterday. Hung out in Bentonville for the afternoon (Crystal Bridges, Walmart Museum, town square, lunch). Then went to the ballgame in the evening. Very lousy game for the Naturals. They lost 5-1 and only had 3 hits. Witt, Pratto, and Melendez combined to go 0-11.
However, we had a great time as a family. We had awesome second row seats near the Naturals dugout. We moved out to the outfield for a while, and got a home run ball from a visiting player. First live ball I've ever gotten in my life (probably over 100 live games). A few of the players (Josh Dye, Collin Snider, and Travis Jones) were nice enough to sign the ball after the game for the girls as well.
Originally Posted by CasselGotPeedOn:
It's pretty hilarious how literally every person on this board hates you. I'm guessing it's very similar in real life also.
I only see that dipshit and Oaklandhater when people reply to them. This is a much nicer experience when you mute the retards. [Reply]
Originally Posted by duncan_idaho:
Take your strawman bullshit back to DC.
Seriously. GTFO. And seek help.
Look, blowhard asshole, we have a disagreement over the importance of the pitching coach for a MLB team. You took weird offense to it for some reason, and introduced your high school pitching coach into it, you whiny bitch. And what does DC have to do with it? Go jack off to to some A ball stats, dick. [Reply]
Originally Posted by cosmo20002:
Look, blowhard asshole, we have a disagreement over the importance of the pitching coach for a MLB team. You took weird offense to it for some reason, and introduced your high school pitching coach into it, you whiny bitch. And what does DC have to do with it? Go jack off to to some A ball stats, dick.
You get one warning before I ban you from this thread.
Originally Posted by cosmo20002:
At the high school level, I would expect a pitching coach to have more impact and I don't doubt that you probably had much to learn.
I don't doubt having an outside observer can help a major leaguer.
What I do doubt is that there's much difference between the 100s of pitching coaches that cycle through the professional ranks. If there was, you would see consistent, long-term results from the same guys. Instead, even the "good" ones bounce around from team to team. I'm sure that some are better than others, but it's amazing how, after several years of being nothing special, a pitching coach suddenly becomes great when he happens to get a group of high draft picks coming up together. And a few years later, he's nothing special again and is let go.
The problem is the Royals have one of the worst pitching coaches around and he is causing a lot of issues with these pitchers. [Reply]
Originally Posted by cosmo20002:
Look, blowhard asshole, we have a disagreement over the importance of the pitching coach for a MLB team. You took weird offense to it for some reason, and introduced your high school pitching coach into it, you whiny bitch. And what does DC have to do with it? Go jack off to to some A ball stats, dick.
I mean, you kind of disregarded all of the examples of how pitching coaches transformed MLB teams with "eh I don't really buy it" so it seems like you're just gonna be determined to think that pitching coaches don't matter no matter what facts are presented to you. [Reply]
Gotta be something to literally every single one of our young pitching prospects is a flaming ball of shit in the Majors this year. They are very clearly not getting any help from the coaching staff. Other then Bubic for a few starts they all look like they are completely and totally lost.
They need to get Bubic back into starting the game. Let him take his lumps and hopefully he can figure it out. [Reply]
Originally Posted by cosmo20002:
Look, blowhard asshole, we have a disagreement over the importance of the pitching coach for a MLB team. You took weird offense to it for some reason, and introduced your high school pitching coach into it, you whiny bitch. And what does DC have to do with it? Go jack off to to some A ball stats, dick.
I didn’t take offense.
I tried to offer solid reasoning to what you were missing/unaware of. Understanding I built as a player, as someone who covered major league baseball for a living, and continued to refine even after leaving sports journalism because a good friend of mine traveled with the team and has first-hand knowledge of what the coaches had available/were doing/taking advantage of when it comes to video and analytics.
Said friend is the reason I went to every home playoff game in 2014 for free. In one of his comped seats.
I should have know attempts to expand your knowledge base would be met with you digging in your heels, clapping your hands over your ears, and shouting “nuh-uh”
at the top of your keys. My mistake.
But you don’t get to shit all over this thread with the type of bullshit strawman arguments, making logical leaps, putting words in people’s mouth shit that happens in DC.
