GDT #6, 4/6/'14: Braves (Wood) @ Nationals (Jordan) 1:35 PM EST [The Dark Wood Rises]
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50PoundHead
Hessmania Forever
I think he's remarkably consistent AB-to-AB. A lot of good and bad washes out over the long run, but he doesn't seem to have many ABs where he looks like: (1) he doesn't have a plan, or (2): he's overmatched.
The thing is his pitch recognition is improved.
This series I've never seen him take so many pitches like a champ and work counts like that. And he's making solid contact on everything.
This series I've never seen him take so many pitches like a champ and work counts like that. And he's making solid contact on everything.
Orphan Black
Approaching Buddy Hernandez Territory
Braves have 58 combined hits and walks and Freeman has 14 of them...that's almost 25%!
PawPawMaxwell
Called Up to the Major Leagues
Better dial back the Freeman for Prez love fest. Soon the Heyward worshipers will arrive enmasse.
CyYoung31
Shift Leader
PawPawMaxwell
Called Up to the Major Leagues
What is your question?
Ive never really gotten into the Heyward/Freeman debate, but I don't think anyone in their right mind would pick someone other than Freeman up to bat when the question is asked who you most want at the plate.
Heyward
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br>'13, '14, '15 (Co-Winner
Always has been, glad to see you on board.
Heyward
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br>'13, '14, '15 (Co-Winner
I'm as big of a fan as Heyward as it gets but Freeman is so much of a better hitter, its not worth talking about.
If you want to bring up overall value in terms of defense, base running, etc, thats another story.
Um, I watched Freeman play in AAA and told you how good he was.
Heyward
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br>'13, '14, '15 (Co-Winner
I knew he'd be good, i dont think anyone thought he'd be THIS good.
PawPawMaxwell
Called Up to the Major Leagues
I have a question for the board. Having been in roughly 20 ML stadiums over the years, I have yet to be in one that is situated so that a batter needs shades at 4:00 PM.
Can anyone enlighten me if there is a stadium in MLB that is sited so that the sun would be in the hitters eyes in the afternoon.
Can anyone enlighten me if there is a stadium in MLB that is sited so that the sun would be in the hitters eyes in the afternoon.
Orphan Black
Approaching Buddy Hernandez Territory
I'm guessing this could be an issue on west coast stadiums if homeplate is to the east. Sun is generally up for longer periods of time on this side of the country in the spring and summer. In AK we'll max out to about 15 hours of daylight.
PawPawMaxwell
Called Up to the Major Leagues
It has been a very long time but I am pretty certain that is not the case at Dodger Stadium, Anaheim, Candlestick and Jack Murphy. Not sure about Oakland. Of course, the sun never shines in Seattle.
Orphan Black
Approaching Buddy Hernandez Territory
Sounds like Oakland may be east to west with homeplate at the east...at least according to wikipedia.
JohnAdcox
Brian Jordan's New BFF
In the olden days, Stadiums were ALWAYS situated so that home plate was on the west end of the stadium, so you always got that dramatic shadow creeping toward the pitcher. One of my favorite visuals. Remember this from Thomas Wolfe?
"The scene is instant, whole and wonderful. In its beauty and design that vision of the soaring stands, the pattern of forty thousand empetalled faces, the velvet and unalterable geometry of the playing field and the small lean figures of the players, set there, lonely, tense, and waiting in their places bright, desperate solitary atoms encircled by that huge wall of nameless faces, is incredible. And more than anything, it is the light, the miracle of light and shade and color-- the crisp, blue light that swiftly slants out from the soaring stands and, deepening to violet, begins to march across the velvet field and towards the pitcher’s box that gives the thing its single and incomparable beauty.
The batter stands swinging his bat and grimly waiting at the plate, crouched, tense, the catcher, crouched, the umpire, bent, hands clasped behind his back, and peering forward. All of them are set now in the cold blue of that slanting shadow, except the pitcher who stands out there all alone, calm, desperate, and forsaken in his isolation, with the gold-red swiftly fading light upon him, his figure legible with all the resolution, despair and lonely dignity which that slanting, somehow fatal light can give him."
It is also why left-handed pitchers are referred to as southpaws. Anyone who builds a stadium with home plate anywhere else save on the west end is a communist.
"The scene is instant, whole and wonderful. In its beauty and design that vision of the soaring stands, the pattern of forty thousand empetalled faces, the velvet and unalterable geometry of the playing field and the small lean figures of the players, set there, lonely, tense, and waiting in their places bright, desperate solitary atoms encircled by that huge wall of nameless faces, is incredible. And more than anything, it is the light, the miracle of light and shade and color-- the crisp, blue light that swiftly slants out from the soaring stands and, deepening to violet, begins to march across the velvet field and towards the pitcher’s box that gives the thing its single and incomparable beauty.
The batter stands swinging his bat and grimly waiting at the plate, crouched, tense, the catcher, crouched, the umpire, bent, hands clasped behind his back, and peering forward. All of them are set now in the cold blue of that slanting shadow, except the pitcher who stands out there all alone, calm, desperate, and forsaken in his isolation, with the gold-red swiftly fading light upon him, his figure legible with all the resolution, despair and lonely dignity which that slanting, somehow fatal light can give him."
It is also why left-handed pitchers are referred to as southpaws. Anyone who builds a stadium with home plate anywhere else save on the west end is a communist.
Orphan Black
Approaching Buddy Hernandez Territory
Haha...maybe I misread what wikipedia said, but it sure sounded like home plate was on the east side of the stadium.
From wiki
"During Raider preseason games and all regular season games played while the baseball season was still going on, the field was set up from home plate to center field (east/west)."
From wiki
"During Raider preseason games and all regular season games played while the baseball season was still going on, the field was set up from home plate to center field (east/west)."