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[baseballstuff @baseballstuff13]

@CardsCountryLU Thanks for the updates. 👍Appreciate your constant flow of LU data for us alumni in the Houston area…..

[NCAA Baseball @NCAABaseball]

COLLEGE STATION REGIONAL

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#RoadToOmaha

[Matthew S. @MatthewMKE98]

There’s only one correct answer

And it’s Prince Fielder

Big man was MOVING

Also dope hearing Uecker on the call

[ESPN @espn]

Bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, down by 3, down to your final strike … GRAND SLAM‼️

Every baseball kid’s dream in the backyard growing up. @SouthernMissBSB's Drey Barrett just lived it 👏

[Cam Sanderson @CamSandersonTV]

For the first time since 2010, @Lamar_Baseball is heading to the NCCA Tournament!

Here is 2 minutes of post game reaction from tonight’s SLC Championship clinching win

[Cole Coker @cole_coker]

CHAMPS #peckem @Lamar_Baseball

[baseballstuff @baseballstuff13]

Big Astros moment…..

[D 丹尼 利澤 @_DanielRz_]

We’re not reading all of that. Instead watch Jose Altuve send the Astros to the World Series

[D 丹尼 利澤 @_DanielRz_]

We’re not reading all of that. Instead watch Jose Altuve send the Astros to the World Series

[Cardinal Country @CardsCountryLU]

Lamar and Northwestern State sit at the top of the conference after this weekend’s games.

[SleeperAstros @SleeperAstros]

My current rankings of the #Astros starting rotation candidates:

1. Hunter Brown
2. Mike Burrows
3. Tatsuya Imai
4. Cristian Javier
5. Ryan Weiss
6. Lance McCullers Jr.
7. Spencer Arrighetti

Thoughts? 💭

[Robert Land | Houston Sports Talk Podcast Host @HSTPodcast]

Astros Young OF Stats in Spring (Cam Smith, Zach Cole, Zach Dezenzo, Joey Loperfido)
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1 for 36
14 K's
10 BB

[Brian McTaggart @brianmctaggart]

The Astros have signed Cavan Biggio to a minor league contract. He’s scheduled to be in camp today.

[baseballstuff @baseballstuff13]

Good analogy on current baseball with money ball evaluations vs actual scouting of players….

[Fryedaddy/Frito @shegone03]

Former @MLB player John Vander Wal nailed it on his @facebook post!
#shegone

The game is in an awful state.

I scouted professionally for two organizations over a ten-year period, and a lot of what we’re seeing today is being misunderstood or flat-out misrepresented.

First, velocity. Pitchers are not throwing significantly harder across the board. The perceived jump in velocity is primarily the result of technology and measurement changes — specifically where the device picks the baseball up out of the hand. As radar and tracking systems moved closer and closer to release, the readings increased. The arm didn’t change — the measurement did.

Now hitting.

We’ve reached a point where “gurus” who never played the game at a high level are applying golf swing principles to baseball, largely because golf embraced analytics to identify the most efficient swing paths. The problem is that a baseball bat is not a golf club.

In golf, you dump the club to get it on plane.
In baseball, you cannot lose the barrel on the back side and still stay on plane consistently.

Yet the tech community began preaching backside barrel dump as the answer. Front offices filled with non-baseball “propeller head” GMs bought into the presentations, and this philosophy was pushed aggressively through the minor leagues. I saw this coming as early as 2014.

The result?
Hitters now dump the barrel in an attempt to get on plane, but they:
• Struggle to stay inside the baseball
• Lose adjustability
• Operate with slower effective bat speed

On the pitching side, it’s no better.

Pitchers are taught max effort on every pitch. Starters rarely exceed 90 pitches or five innings, work almost exclusively to either arm side or glove side, and live in deep counts. Relievers are almost universally max effort, arm-side only.

The consequence is obvious:
• Poor command
• Inconsistent control
• Little ability to sequence or adjust

Despite all the technology, pitching command and overall feel are as bad as I’ve ever seen at the big-league level.

More data didn’t make the game smarter.
It just made it louder — and in many cases, worse.

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[baseballstuff @baseballstuff13]

@OleTimeHardball Cobb, Ruth and Griffey

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@OleTimeHardball Fran Tarkenton

[baseballstuff @baseballstuff13]

@JoePellettieri @BBGreatMoments Agreed - all 20 game winners that year…

[baseballstuff @baseballstuff13]

@OleTimeHardball Bob Gipson or Greg Maddox - depends on the competition

[MLBExecutiveBurner @HotStoveintel]

Top 101 FAs

1. OF Kyle Tucker ~ 10-$400M
2. DH Kyle Schwarber ~ 6-$165M
3. OF Cody Bellinger ~ 7-$192.5M
4. 3B Alex Bregman ~ 7-$192.5M
5. 1B Pete Alonso ~ 6-$162M
6. 2B Bo Bichette ~ 8-$210M
7. SP Framber Valdez ~ 5-$160M
8. SP Dylan Cease ~ 6-$168M
9. SP Ranger Suárez ~ 6-$150M
10. RP Edwin Díaz ~ 3-$67.5M
11. 3B Munetaka Murakami ~ 6-$132M
12. SP Zac Gallen ~ 3-$82.5M
13. SP Michael King ~ 4-$102M
14. SP Tatsuya Imai ~ 6-$126M
15. OF Trent Grisham ~ 5-$90M
16. RP Robert Suárez ~ 3-$52.5M
17. RP Raidel Martínez ~ 3-$39M
18. 1B Josh Naylor ~ 3-$60M
19. 3B Eugenio Suárez ~ 3-$67.5M
20. SP Shane Bieber ~ 3-$67.5M
21. SP Brandon Woodruff ~ 3-$67.5M
22. SP Merrill Kelly ~ 3-$57M
23. 2B Gleyber Torres ~ Accepts QO
24. RP Devin Williams ~ 1-$15M
25. SP Shota Imanaga ~ Accepts QO
26. OF Harrison Bader ~ 3-$42M
27. SS Ha-Seong Kim ~ 2-$32M (Opt Out)
28. SP Tyler Mahle ~ 1-$18M
29. SP Jack Flaherty ~ 3-$54M
30. RP Jo Hsi Hsu ~ 4-$48M
31. RP Luke Weaver ~ 3-$36M
32. DH / IF Jorge Polanco ~ 1-$13M
33. IF Kazuma Okamoto ~ 4-$55M
34. 1B Ryan O'Hearn ~ 2-$28M
35. RP Brad Keller ~ 3-$33M
36. RP Raisel Iglesias ~ 1-$15M
37. RP Ryan Helsley ~ 1-$13M
38. RP Emilio Pagán ~ 3-$31.5M
39. C JT Realmuto ~ 2-$25M
40. SP Chris Bassitt ~ 1-$17M
41. SP Lucas Giolito ~ 1-$18M
42. SP Nick Martinez ~ 1-$15M
43. SP Justin Verlander ~ 1-$15M
44. RP Tyler Rogers ~ 2-$20M
45. RP Gregory Soto ~ 2-$22M
46. RP Phil Maton ~ 1-$9M
47. RP Mike Soroka ~ 1-$9M
48. OF Cedric Mullins II ~ 1-$10M
49. 1B Luis Arraez ~ 2-$26M
50. DH Marcell Ozuna ~ 1-$10M
51. SP Cody Ponce ~ 2-$18M
52. SP Hiroto Saiki ~ Unsigned
53. RP Shawn Armstrong ~ 2-$16M
54. RP Kenley Jansen ~ 1-$10M
55. RP Kyle Finnegan ~ 2-$16M
56. RP Andrew Kittredge ~ 1-$8M
57. SP Zack Littell ~ 2-$22M
58. SP Dustin May ~ 1-$10M
59. SP José Quintana ~ 2-$22M
60. RP Caleb Ferguson ~ 2-$16M
61. SP Germán Márquez ~ 1-$8M
62. SP Adrian Houser ~ 2-$18M
63. RP Kirby Yates ~ 1-$8M
64. SP Woo Jin An ~ Unsigned
65. OF Mike Yastrzemski ~ 1-$8M
66. OF Miguel Andujar ~ 1-$7M
67. SP Zach Eflin ~ 1-$8M
68. RP Sean Newcomb ~ 2-$12M
69. 1B Paul Goldschmidt ~ 1-$7M
70. RP Shelby Miller ~ 1-$6M
71. RP Hunter Harvey ~ 1-$6M
72. RP Caleb Thielbar ~ 1-$7M
73. RP Drew Pomeranz ~ 1-$7M
74. OF Austin Hays ~ 1-$7M
75. RP Taylor Rogers ~ 2-$16M
76. 1B Rhys Hoskins ~ 1-$7M
77. C Danny Jansen ~ 1-$7M
78. UT Willi Castro ~ 1-$7M
79. RP Steven Matz ~ 1-$6M
79. RP Hoby Milner ~ 2-$12M
80. SP Max Scherzer ~ 1-$10M
81. SP Walker Buehler ~ 1-$7M
82. RP Michael Kopech ~ 1-$7M
83. OF Lane Thomas ~ 1-$7M
84. SP Griffin Canning ~ 2-$15M
85. SS Miguel Rojas ~ 1-$5M
86. RP Seranthony Dominguez ~ 1-$6M
87. SP Tyler Anderson ~ 1-$8M
88. SP Patrick Corbin ~ 1-$8M
89. SP Kona Takahashi ~ Unsigned
90. RP Danny Coulombe ~ 1-$5M
91. SP Aaron Civale ~ 1-$7M
92. SP Foster Griffin ~ 2-$15M
93. OF Rob Refsnyder ~ 1-$6M
94. SP Tomoyuki Sugano ~ 1-$7M (Japan)
95. 3B Sung Mun Song ~ 3-$19.5M
96. C Victor Caratini ~ 2-$12M
97. OF Starling Marte ~ 1-$5M
98. UT Isiah Kiner-Falefa ~ 1-$3M
99. RP Chris Martin ~ 1-$4M
100. RP Alexis Díaz ~ 1-$3M
101. UT Kiké Hernández ~ 1-$6.5M

[baseballstuff @baseballstuff13]

@SanAntonioTim I hope he does. Good point….⚾️

[Climbing Tal's Hill @astrosCTH]

You know it's being considered.

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