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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Thursday, April 22, 2021What it really means when white sportswriters talk about lack of hustle
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Posted: April 22, 2021 at 11:34 AM | 38 comment(s)
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1. Jobu is silent on the changeup Posted: April 22, 2021 at 12:03 PM (#6014925)Only a fool puts too much weight on stats after 10-20 games. A massive fool would demote a star based on those stats.
.180 hitter on a last place team shows conspicuously bad effort on a play, but the real problem is you for noticing!
It's narcissism disguised as sports. The only subject you really care about is you, so if we make every story into a story about you, maybe you'll give us a click!
firstly, deadspin doesn't exist anymore. it was kind of a thing. implying that the current site has any connection to the original is factually and holistically erroneous.
secondly, this is not clickbait. clickbait implies a deceitful headline/picture that gets random people on social medias to mindlessly click the link. this is not that.
thirdly, this is more akin to a skip bayless-esque outrage bait. this is also pretty deceitful, because it's conceived not to advance a point of view, but to outrage people who hold the opposite point of view. or...
fourth, the people who currently work at "deadspin" are just not very good at their jobs, which is why they were desperate enough to work for that hemorrhaging carcass, rather than an entity that didn't just have its entire writing staff quit en mass because of its shitbag owner.
fifth: the writers and editors who quit deadspin started their own media company (website), which can be found at defector.com. it's probably as good/bad as you remember it being, but whichever side you're on, "deadspin" is dead.
As TFA actually notes before hand-waving it away, noted Latino Bryce Harper has been called out on this lately too.
In fairness, the writer did not call it a dog whistle. He said that it "borders on a dog whistle." Because, you know ... whatever that even means.
Thanks for mentioning this, I hadn't discovered it yet.
Leaving aside the race/ethnic/hustle issue, benching a young star who just did something like that for a game or two is common coaching practice. Bobby Cox pulled Andruw Jones mid-game for a lack of hustle. It's also common practice to give a slumping player a couple of days off, maybe to relieve pressure, maybe to give him a couple of days to work on something with the hitting coach.
Meanwhile his defense ... at SS, TZ says he's average, DRS says he's -15/year, UZR has him at -10/150 and statcast around -5/150. Lots to choose from there.
And in the big picture, a player dogging it on the occasional play is a minor and fixable sin.
But having said that, getting mad at a player for poor effort is any fan's right and trying to turn it around like this is baiting. If you want to defend Torres, say he was giving an appropriate effort (he wasn't) or just accept his apology and move on.
* Likewise for any other teams, or in any sport. But the emphasis here, consistent with the subject of this article, is the Yankees.
Rather than continue to rip on TFA, let me pose this question: What is the Yankees' path to success? What changes within their organization should they make to turn things around? Or is it just a matter of waiting it out - in other words, that the ship will right itself?
I did not understand their offseason.
that said, a lotta lotta baseball left.
He's not a good SS. I don't know if that could be affecting him at the plate. And he can't exactly move back to 2B now anyway.
For this season, it's just waiting it out. Maybe they have some ML-ready help in the minors but there's no Stanton to be had. When your established starting hitters are putting up OPS+ of 45, 47, 53, 54 what else can you realistically do but assume they aren't even remotely that bad (they aren't) ... and even if they have all turned into pumpkins overnight, you can't replace half your lineup mid-season.
The offseason was rather odd for a rich team -- more SPs, better bench. There was plenty of risk here -- Sanchez, Frazier, Hicks' health, Stanton's health, Judge's health, Gardner's age, Kluber, Taillon. But most every team has similar risk, it's just so far broken disastrously against the Yanks' hitters. Picking up Odor was a sign of desperation.
Water finds its level and I’d trust the Yankees. The problem they are having right now is their offense is a shambles. I highly doubt they will finish the year with six regulars with sub-100 OPS+. The concern I’d have for the Yankees is that their rotation is made up of a lot of guys (other than Cole) who are hardly likely to make 30 starts.
The advantage they have is that I don’t think there is anyone likely to win 90+ games in that division besides them. Tampa is as Tampa does so yeah I don’t be surprised by them. Baltimore sucks, the Red Sox are a .500 team, Toronto I’m just not buying. Obviously they don’t want to fall too far back but I suspect they are more 2011 Red Sox who were 5-11 to start and by Memorial Day were leading the division. Like that team the problem with the bad start is the games count and they are using up a slump right out of the gate. But as long as they can avoid a month where they go 7-20 later in the season I’d still expect them to win the division.
Tl;dr - Yup.
So his OPS+ for the season has broken 50?
It was maybe 10 years ago I read Cashman saying something like, "I figure I'm more likely to find lightning in a bottle with someone who has previously shown lightning." Between that thinking, the fact that he costs NY only the league minimum with zero CBT effect (Odor's AAV is below his 2021 salary), this was as much a no-lose acquisition as could be had. And any time a typically well-run team picks up a guy like this, I just assume they see something they believe is correctable. So far, maybe not.
I figured they didn't want Bauer (both the dollars and accompanying milieu) and think Kluber and Taillon (in particular those two) could be something like their old selves by August or so. TBD on them, obviously, but I think your (and others' here) overall description is probably accurate. I mean, yeah:
Anecdotally it seems like guys who return from Tommy John struggle their first few starts and of course that assumes everything goes according to plan. It's the same reason I'm not counting on Sale to be any kind of difference maker for the Sox (he's on a similar timeline).
(And yeah, really bad writing in the part of the story linked doesn't help)
Exactly. Or pitch more than 5 innings into any given game, which takes its inevitable toll on the bullpen. That's because the rotation (other than Cole) is almost entirely made up of pitchers recovering from major surgery: Kluber, Taillon, Montgomery, Germán, and prospectively Severino. The talent's obviously there, but the long range durability isn't something you can count on.
They were all injured at the same time.
It's worth analyzing.
Even if true, that's not "systemic" racism. It would be just plain racism. Stop learning your social justice stances from blowhards on Twitter.
Other than Cole, it's a disease of the entire Yankees rotation:
Taillon's line today;
Innings 1-3: 3 hits, 0 runs, 3 strikeouts
4th inning: Single, single, single, home run.
It means you are the raciest racist that ever raced a race. (Give us all your money now and die, bigot!)
The only people who ever talk about "dog whistles" are the ones who claim they're too pure to hear them.
But in context, that doesn't seem to be what he meant.
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