September 11th is a day that always depresses me a bit. I spent a good part of the morning watching the news and then decided I might as well go for a workout because watching people die by the thousands wasn’t helping my mood.
I understand that the complaints about the one-knee thing are mostly because it isn’t good for certain pitches.
But I still don’t get it. If you, as a catcher, change from the one-knee to the traditional stance, I’m guessing it would signal the batter what pitch is coming. You can ask the Astros if that is an advantage or not.
Being on one knee makes blocking pitches in the dirt much easier, which is why our wild pitch numbers are way down. Getting to pitches well wide of the zone is likely more challenging. I don’t know if there is a way to disguise being up on both knees or to move to the traditional setup as the pitch is coming. I would think that would be tough.
Anyway, the one-knee works well 99% of the time. And I have to stop watching pre-and post-game shows. I hate the ‘I’m not going to research, but I’m going to rant things.
One of the positives that isn’t talked about is that it is tough on the knees to go into a full squad and get up a couple of hundred times a game. Getting up from the one-knee wouldn’t be all that much fur, he says as an old man.
I would not have guessed:
The best hitting team in MLB the last 30 days is, as you’d expect …
the Blue Jays?
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— Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) September 11, 2024
I’ll show the exciting part:
Leo Jimenez was hit in the foot with a pitch. X-rays were negative, but he is not playing today as he’s still in pain.
I’d complain about Springer leading off, but who cares now? Schneider is in against the lefty. I hope he can run into one again. I do think that getting a couple of hits might help right him, but I don’t know that it would be enough to make me want to have him on the team. Serven catches.