Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
So did I. My original plan was to invite my buddy over. Cook some Brats, drink beer, watch the game and just hang with the family..
My son's baseball coach mentioned last minute that he has a game at 3:30. They're the smallest and youngest in the league and they were playing the defending champions. They lost 18-0 and the game ended at 6:15. (only 4 innings were played).
I kept calling the coach bobby valentine.
This reminds of a time I went to a Mets game in 03 with my buddy in Montreal. My buddy is a huge Mets fan and we had seats right on top of the Mets dugout. It was late in the year and the Mets were way out of contention. Every time Valentine peeped his head out of the dugout my buddy just verbally assaulted him. I mean it was quite embarrassing and he was getting a lot of stares from other people but he was relentless. The one that comes to mind is he's making diret eye contact with Valentine and he grabs his nuts and tells Valentine his mom even thinks you suck!
Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Glad they let cc head out for the 8th. Good outing
Much needed rest for the bullpen.
Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
I missed half of my fantasy draft so Jeter was picked before I arrived and I picked up another SS late thinking I would try to use Jeter as trade bait
I cannot believe how good he has fantasy wise, every night hits, HRs, RBIs its unbelievable
what a start to a season, is it a stretch to say this may be his best April ever?
wowzers
1998 ~ Barrie
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
what a start to a season, is it a stretch to say this may be his best April ever?
wowzers
That's what I'm thinking.
Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Real good early season win against a team on fire. Was flicking back and forth from your game. Good sports night.
as u can imagine...i saw about 10 pitches..1 of them being hamilton homer :roll:
Yeah, of course. I watched almost all of the 2nd and 3rd periods. But missed things here and there for the Yanks.
Really looking forward to tonights game. Darvish's era is a lot better than the rest of his numbers have been. 1.81 whip. I hope they put a beating on him tonight.
Derek Jeter’s hot bat has gotten a whole lot better
Last week when Derek Jeter was batting .361/.395/.528 I hypothesized that his hot start wouldn’t last, that it was a mirage. My logic was simple. Jeter was crushing left handed pitching to the totally unsustainable tune of a .617 wOBA. Against righties, however, his wOBA was an awful .272. Given that most pitchers are right handed, and that Jeter’s decline the past couple seasons has come against right handed pitching, logic dictated he couldn’t sustain his hot hitting. Once he began facing a more typical number of righties his overall numbers would begin to suffer.
So, here we are, a week later, and Jeter is batting .382/.411/.618. His wOBA is .432. In the past week Jeter’s number have gotten … better. That’s a lot of left-handed pitchers, right? That’s only partially true. While it’s true that Jeter has faced lefties in ten of the Yankees’ games and 24 of his plate appearances, he has now faced righties in 50 of his plate appearances. His season numbers against both types of pitching have begun to normalize. He’s still clobbering lefties. His wOBA is .595 against them, which is astounding (and unsustainable). Against righties, however, he’s started to hit, a lot. Jeter’s wOBA is now .365 against righties. That means that since I wrote my last post suggesting Jeter would not be able to sustain his hitting overall because he’s hit right handed pitching so poorly Derek has improved his numbers against righties almost astronomically. He’s gone from having a .272 wOBA against them to a .365 wOBA in a single week. That’s impressive.
1999 was the best season of Jeter’s career, when had a wOBA of .428. It is unlikley, therefore, that Jeter will be able to keep up his current torrid hitting. It would mean that he has the best season of his career in his late thirties. That’s unlikely. However, if Jeter is in the process of putting together a come back season he will need to do it the way he did when he was younger, crushing lefties, and hitting well against righties. Last week my hunch was that when Jeter’s numbers normalized his weakness against righties would be exposed. Instead, his hot hitting has started to benefit him when he’s facing righties. Derek has taken one step toward putting together a come back month, if it is too soon to say if this is a come back season, and one step closer to proving me wrong. I’ve never been happier to be wrong.
Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Derek Jeter’s hot bat has gotten a whole lot better
Last week when Derek Jeter was batting .361/.395/.528 I hypothesized that his hot start wouldn’t last, that it was a mirage. My logic was simple. Jeter was crushing left handed pitching to the totally unsustainable tune of a .617 wOBA. Against righties, however, his wOBA was an awful .272. Given that most pitchers are right handed, and that Jeter’s decline the past couple seasons has come against right handed pitching, logic dictated he couldn’t sustain his hot hitting. Once he began facing a more typical number of righties his overall numbers would begin to suffer.
So, here we are, a week later, and Jeter is batting .382/.411/.618. His wOBA is .432. In the past week Jeter’s number have gotten … better. That’s a lot of left-handed pitchers, right? That’s only partially true. While it’s true that Jeter has faced lefties in ten of the Yankees’ games and 24 of his plate appearances, he has now faced righties in 50 of his plate appearances. His season numbers against both types of pitching have begun to normalize. He’s still clobbering lefties. His wOBA is .595 against them, which is astounding (and unsustainable). Against righties, however, he’s started to hit, a lot. Jeter’s wOBA is now .365 against righties. That means that since I wrote my last post suggesting Jeter would not be able to sustain his hitting overall because he’s hit right handed pitching so poorly Derek has improved his numbers against righties almost astronomically. He’s gone from having a .272 wOBA against them to a .365 wOBA in a single week. That’s impressive.
1999 was the best season of Jeter’s career, when had a wOBA of .428. It is unlikley, therefore, that Jeter will be able to keep up his current torrid hitting. It would mean that he has the best season of his career in his late thirties. That’s unlikely. However, if Jeter is in the process of putting together a come back season he will need to do it the way he did when he was younger, crushing lefties, and hitting well against righties. Last week my hunch was that when Jeter’s numbers normalized his weakness against righties would be exposed. Instead, his hot hitting has started to benefit him when he’s facing righties. Derek has taken one step toward putting together a come back month, if it is too soon to say if this is a come back season, and one step closer to proving me wrong. I’ve never been happier to be wrong.
Those numbers off lefties are even crazier after last night.
Comments
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"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
My son's baseball coach mentioned last minute that he has a game at 3:30. They're the smallest and youngest in the league and they were playing the defending champions. They lost 18-0 and the game ended at 6:15. (only 4 innings were played).
I kept calling the coach bobby valentine.
This reminds of a time I went to a Mets game in 03 with my buddy in Montreal. My buddy is a huge Mets fan and we had seats right on top of the Mets dugout. It was late in the year and the Mets were way out of contention. Every time Valentine peeped his head out of the dugout my buddy just verbally assaulted him.
http://espn.go.com/new-york/video/clip? ... id=5031903
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Haha, i knew something along those lines was coming
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
I missed half of my fantasy draft so Jeter was picked before I arrived and I picked up another SS late thinking I would try to use Jeter as trade bait
I cannot believe how good he has fantasy wise, every night hits, HRs, RBIs its unbelievable
what a start to a season, is it a stretch to say this may be his best April ever?
wowzers
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Real good early season win against a team on fire. Was flicking back and forth from your game. Good sports night.
as u can imagine...i saw about 10 pitches..1 of them being hamilton homer :roll:
Yeah, of course. I watched almost all of the 2nd and 3rd periods. But missed things here and there for the Yanks.
Really looking forward to tonights game. Darvish's era is a lot better than the rest of his numbers have been. 1.81 whip. I hope they put a beating on him tonight.
Didnt he and the girlfriend break up?
http://www.yankeeanalysts.com/2012/04/d ... tter-40599
Derek Jeter’s hot bat has gotten a whole lot better
Last week when Derek Jeter was batting .361/.395/.528 I hypothesized that his hot start wouldn’t last, that it was a mirage. My logic was simple. Jeter was crushing left handed pitching to the totally unsustainable tune of a .617 wOBA. Against righties, however, his wOBA was an awful .272. Given that most pitchers are right handed, and that Jeter’s decline the past couple seasons has come against right handed pitching, logic dictated he couldn’t sustain his hot hitting. Once he began facing a more typical number of righties his overall numbers would begin to suffer.
So, here we are, a week later, and Jeter is batting .382/.411/.618. His wOBA is .432. In the past week Jeter’s number have gotten … better. That’s a lot of left-handed pitchers, right? That’s only partially true. While it’s true that Jeter has faced lefties in ten of the Yankees’ games and 24 of his plate appearances, he has now faced righties in 50 of his plate appearances. His season numbers against both types of pitching have begun to normalize. He’s still clobbering lefties. His wOBA is .595 against them, which is astounding (and unsustainable). Against righties, however, he’s started to hit, a lot. Jeter’s wOBA is now .365 against righties. That means that since I wrote my last post suggesting Jeter would not be able to sustain his hitting overall because he’s hit right handed pitching so poorly Derek has improved his numbers against righties almost astronomically. He’s gone from having a .272 wOBA against them to a .365 wOBA in a single week. That’s impressive.
1999 was the best season of Jeter’s career, when had a wOBA of .428. It is unlikley, therefore, that Jeter will be able to keep up his current torrid hitting. It would mean that he has the best season of his career in his late thirties. That’s unlikely. However, if Jeter is in the process of putting together a come back season he will need to do it the way he did when he was younger, crushing lefties, and hitting well against righties. Last week my hunch was that when Jeter’s numbers normalized his weakness against righties would be exposed. Instead, his hot hitting has started to benefit him when he’s facing righties. Derek has taken one step toward putting together a come back month, if it is too soon to say if this is a come back season, and one step closer to proving me wrong. I’ve never been happier to be wrong.
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
.411/.436/.644 and leading the majors with 30 hits.
He could go 0-27 and still be above .300 which is insane for this early in the season.
Those numbers off lefties are even crazier after last night.