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Home Run derby could be absolutely spectacular this year, with all these big bruisers now! And if I remember correctly, as a bonus, Berman isn't doing them for ESPN anymore!
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the "Millville Meteor" nick originated here?!?!
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May 9, 2017 20:42
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God bless you Weed Rat
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I think someone said the fastball being thrown less frequently is a relatively new thing. Anecdotally, I want to say that I got real pissed off after the Big Strike in '94, and I went from being a guy who would watch three or four full nine-inning games per week (whatever teams were on, didn't matter) and spending the rest of my time reading about baseball and working on my fantasy teams, to someone who paid little attention to baseball at all until about 2010 or 2011. The main difference I noticed (or thought I noticed) when I really started paying attention again, was that in the so-called hitter's counts in 2010 it seems like batters were now as likely or more likely to get a breaking pitch or some off-speed thing as they were to get the old #1, which had been a pretty much automatic pitch selection in the 90s and long before that. I can't say for sure if this was the case because i don't think pitch types were tracked faithfully until more recently, but man I was pretty blown away when I started watching again. Seemed like kids arrived at the MLB level with one or two more genuinely good pitches than they had been before.
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May 18, 2017 04:10
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Dunno if he's still around, but Ronald Belisario was a recent player who was perhaps the ugliest man ever in MLB.
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