How is it the wrong thread when you posted something about Cliff Lee being too good? This is where we're talking about the Yankee/Seattle series. *points up at the thread title again* As for Cano, he spent the first part of the slump being incredibly unlucky. His line drive percentage is up this year. His walks are up. His pitches per plate appearance are up. He has started looking a little impatient the past two weeks or so, though. Probably because it was starting to get to him. But Cano's still a good hitter. Is he a .342 hitter? Unlikely, as that would have him as one of the top ten of all time. But I'm confident he will continue to be a .300 hitter with moderate power... a guy who you can count on for an OPS of .850 for the most part.
Molina has thrown out 11 runners attempting to steal. He leads the league in that statistic. Yeah, I have a total mancrush on that dude.
:rofl: Sterling, Waldman, Feinsand all discussed Cano, and why he isn't hitting. Feinsand claiming no one understands what's wrong. There's a simple answer. He's not looking at the ball when he swings. Combine that with a lack of proper patience (I don't care how many walks he manages, he's not a patient hitter), and he's swinging at pitches he can't hit. I can't understand why the coaching staff can't figure this out. ------------- And it looks like Moose's great run might be coming to an end.
moose gave ouor lead right back...thanks in part to cano's shitty fuckin throw on a relay home that wouold have had the guy by 2 feet
Well, I'm listening on the radio, but it sounded like Abreu should have caught the ball, but the wall, you know, being there and all, prevented him from making the catch.
Damon twice today? Cano gets a double? Could this offense finally be getting it back together? Oh. Wait. It's Byrd.
That's because walks are not a good way to measure a hitter's patience. There's a difference between knowing a ball from a strike and being patient. Being patient means laying off pitches that, while probably strikes, aren't going to result in anything good for the hitter if he swings. Things like sinkers down in the zone that will be ground balls or breaking balls inside that will likely be popped up. Patience is knowing that it's better to take strike one or two than to go after a pitch that can only result in an out. I don't see Cano enough to know if that applies, but it certainly might. That's part of what makes Ortiz so dangerous. He waits for the pitcher to make a mistake and hammers it instead of popping the previous pitch up even though it was a strike.
