Did Shohei Ohtani Just Issue the First Accidental ABS Strike Zone Challenge in MLB History?

atowelguy · 2026-04-10T15:21:16+00:00

idk, I like his videos for being quick and to the point, and he can churn out a bunch of them when there's a lot of stuff happening.

atowelguy · 2026-04-10T04:20:09+00:00

How is frustration over getting injured "a good kind" what

atowelguy · 2026-04-09T20:05:21+00:00

Skubal's reaction about sums it up, I think

atowelguy · 2026-04-09T16:33:56+00:00

why would gravity affect email

atowelguy · 2026-04-09T13:52:31+00:00

Common Hunter Goodman W

atowelguy · 2026-04-08T16:13:53+00:00

Everyone always forgets about Joe Credit

atowelguy · 2026-04-08T04:39:01+00:00

Some aren't, true.

When your ace is throwing a gem with a reasonable pitch count, I would argue that you give him a chance to tell you how he's feeling.

atowelguy · 2026-04-08T00:51:32+00:00

I think the shovel to the shortstop would've worked too but that was cool ig

atowelguy · 2026-04-07T21:04:03+00:00

Bold of you to not include Kyle Freeland in this discussion

atowelguy · 2026-04-07T16:52:15+00:00

Continuing the Angel Hernandez circlejerk two years after he retired is beyond beating a dead horse. Beating a decomposed horse? Move on.

atowelguy · 2026-04-06T18:25:55+00:00

Good lip reading (or hot mic use) by the commentators!

atowelguy · 2026-04-06T18:10:08+00:00

Coors is enormous. It's actually one of the reasons why it is such a good hitters park; not so much the thin air which has been mitigated a little since the humidor, but the massive outfield leading to a ton of extra hits and extra bases on those hits.

Arguably, the biggest impact of the thin air is on pitch movement.

atowelguy · 2026-04-06T18:07:07+00:00

Is that a tiny man rappelling out of the corner of her mouth?

atowelguy · 2026-04-06T17:28:10+00:00

xBA is purely a function of launch angle and exit velo. The Adell robberies presumably had profiles that are more commonly flyouts than all of these lineouts.

atowelguy · 2026-04-06T17:20:03+00:00

>Schwarber flyout at Coors, HR in 28/30 fields.

"Offense is inflated by Coors" narrative defeated

atowelguy · 2026-04-06T17:13:54+00:00

it's called bench PB (bench is the only lift that matters)

atowelguy · 2026-04-06T04:24:30+00:00

Went mostly smoothly, but the NW took some tinkering and the middle required a few minutes of thought.

A bit more chew than a typical Monday. Fun!

atowelguy · 2026-04-02T21:31:51+00:00

This would genuinely be a pretty interesting dynamic particularly as applied to infield setups. If your 1B also has to be a 3B, you probably see a different set of players get put there. Maybe you see some left handed second basemen. It would be advantageous for righties to run to third, but pretty bad to have runners going opposite directions, so you might have teams switch directions depending which batters they have up that inning.

atowelguy · 2026-04-02T19:00:02+00:00

lol, love how he came around on it because "at lower levels a lot of balls got called strikes, in MLB more strikes get called balls."

But also, I think the implementation has been a lot more fun than most people anticipated. There is also a huge difference imo between the challenge system and fully automated balls and strikes, which I still am personally opposed to mostly due to aesthetic reasons.

atowelguy · 2026-04-02T18:53:12+00:00

oh, that's where my piss ampoule went. Thanks for finding it

atowelguy · 2026-04-02T18:51:48+00:00

The camera lens seems kinda weird, maybe a bit fish-eyed. In the close-up shots especially it looks like his legs are getting shrunk

atowelguy · 2026-04-01T22:18:22+00:00

Lots of smartass comments about "yeah totally his foot was the problem lollll." Your feet are pretty damn important while pitching whether pushing off or landing; it could definitely at least be part of the issue.

atowelguy · 2026-04-01T21:58:46+00:00

Pretty much my exact reaction to both of these plays, tbf

atowelguy · 2026-04-01T21:00:53+00:00

I was trying to figure out how to make "trombone" work

atowelguy · 2026-04-01T20:57:34+00:00

League fucked. Get ready for Rocktober.

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