I'm not sure if Jimmy necessarily has the math experience to break down these charts. A lot of them the trend line was close enough to average that not much of a conclusion could be drawn from it. Something like bat speed and K% works because as you said guys who swing fast are less in control of their bat generally. But sprint speed and BB% there's almost no correlation there and it showed in the data. The r2 value at the top of the chart shows how much correlation there is in the data. The bigger the number, the more that can be drawn from it. The smaller the number, the less correlated 2 events are.
For the non-math people out there... the r2 at the top basically represents a correlation with 0.00 being absolutely no correlation and 1.00 being perfect correlation. The fact that the majority are
I’ve been studying statistics for years and I feel like we shouldn’t downplay the importance of what Jimmy is doing. You first identify the logical relationships in the data, and only then you move to statistical analysis. I could argue that the R^2 doesn’t say anything because there’s missing variables to be considered in the analysis, making the t-statistic inconsistent (the error term is correlated with x). But that’s not what we’re trying to do here, we have a guy who has a lot of knowledge of baseball and is using visual representations to illustrate things that he knows from experience, which adds a lot of value, regardless of whether it’s significant statistically. I’ve learned a lot about baseball by watching these, more than I would be able to grasp if I were to work on the data on my own. Don’t forget that correlation is not the same as causality, something that MLB teams seem to forget. So we shouldn’t obsess with finding significant correlations.
I really liked Jimmy’s charts and actually did a little research myself. I was curious what correlation bat speed and swords (ugly swings) had, and as I expected, the faster you swing the bat the more swords you have. However there were some interesting outliers. Yordan Alvarez and O’Neil Cruz both had average bat speeds near 80 mph, which is amongst the highest and combined the 2 of them only have 3 swords on the season. Want to do more research on Baseball Savant and see if a pitchers average Velo has the same correlation to swords, but don’t know how to access the pitchers stats.
Jimmy can we get a deep dive on the old adage that “a home run derby swing can ruin your average for the rest of the season” it’s one of those things that I hear all the time but never taken the time to look into. Feel like it would be a good Jimmys three things topic
I forget who it was but someone on yt did. And the derby usually had no clear effect on performance from what I recall. But looking at bat speed specifically post-derby could be interesting
It’s a measure of “goodness of fit”, or how reliable the line is at explaining the trend seen with the points. An R squared of 1.00 would mean the line intersects every point on the graph (most reliable). An R squared of 0.01 would mean the trend doesn’t fit well at all
Another thing I would add to your new home run derby format would be that the previous year winner has to compete again but if they complete the 3-peat winning 3 years in a row they can sit out after that if they choose to.
I enjoyed the Derby. The last few years, it made me familiar with Adolis Garcia, Julio Rodriguez, Luis Robert, Teoscar Hernandez, and Randy Arozarena, and I got to see Juan Soto and Gunnar Henderson in action. I think the broadcast needs to do the splitscreen better or not at all. It's fun to watch the ball travel, and they're currently just showing the batter swing and where a ball lands.
How about we got back to whatever the format was when Ruchman was hitting dingers from both sides. Thought it was the best thing ever, then Jrod came up and hit 41. Ill remember both of those more than who won.
Idk why but as someone going into a science career jomboy managing to accidentally plot the scatter graph correctly was kinda satisfying because he had x and y right without realizing and had the variables on the correct axis
I think I’m ok with moving the All-Star game to Sunday, and add in a skills competition (like NHL).. First half ends on say Wednesday. Skills competition is Friday night, Futures game Saturday Afternoon, Derby Saturday Night, ASG Sunday Night. MLB gets an additional revenue, more stars would more than likely want to be part of the weekend festivities if not in Derby or Game and then season could start back up on Tuesday. Would also give players an extra day off (Thursday - Tuesday) where as now they have 4 days off
As a TV viewer my only issue was that it took too long. I just dont think it should take as long as an actual game lol. The format felt more competitive and had nice tension at the end.
Let’s say Shohei “can’t say no”. There was big discussion around Shohei not doing it because he’s rehabbing as a pitcher. As a lefty his main hitting arm is his pitching arm. Would seem hindering to require a rehabbing pitcher to put his arm through that.
Reason for the whole AL/NL thing. The MLB has been around since 1876, but from 1876 to 1901 only the National League existed (NL is sometimes referred to as the "Senior Circuit", as it is the older of the two leagues.) AL/NL denotes MLB history since the American league was formed in 1901.
I really enjoyed this years derby Few things I want to change 1. 2 years is too frequent I'd say every 3 years 2. Using charity to pressure players just doesn't seem right 3. Any player that have been injured before the all star break shouldn't be allegeable - and Ohtani is rehabbing like c'mon let the man rest 4. Give players with the most HRs the choice from the descending order until 8 players are chosen, preferably even with lefties and righties 5. the whole point of the event is watching players hit dingers and fans catching the ball, like why the fuck do you want to lessen the experience of it? just because you get bored in middle?? then don't go 6. I'd say to make everything fair use batting machines instead of personal throwers ( Alonzo had some terrible pitches to hit)
Hey Jimmy, love the weekly three things they are awesome. Ive been wondering how real the post derby slump is. Do guys that participate have worse second halves? Is there any merit at all to concerns about being in the home run derby other than possible injury? I know the derby will be old news by next week but this seems like a great opportunity for a deep dive.
Here's the thing about the Derby for me, the rationale you're picking for the Derby and the people you are selecting are kind of working at odds with each other. Guys hit home runs in games because they are picking up on mistakes, they've been sitting on the bench for a while, and they are fresh when they go up to the plate. Aaron Judge and Shohei could probably destroy the field if you gave them 20 pitches and top score wins. But they don't wanna swing hard for upwards of 100 swings in 30 minutes. I'm not even sure Aaron Judge on swing 100 is going to be better than a replacement player after swing 100.
Big fan of your suggestion. Love the 3 righties and 3 lefties split. Splitting the pot between all players is solid too. Maybe the winner gets their winnings matched by the MLB to their charity of choice so that there’s still something to aim for. Also, another caveat could be to have at least 1 rookie if they are in the top 20-30 HR leaders or if they have a high SLG. 🤷♂️
shorten the HRD and add new things to the event night like a baserunning challenge, a long distance throwing challange and more. this would allow mlb to keep the 2 hour event, while showing off the best of all 5 tools
The problem with this is the same problem you have with the All-Star Game in general which is, "WhAt iF SoMEonE GetS HurRRt?!" I feel like the NHL game is the only one where the best of the best actually try in any of the skills challenges.
I loved the derby. Bohm proved every hater wrong by going out and getting the most in round won and it became a nail biter in the semis against Hernandez. It was fun. I dont think they need that bonus round. They have swung enough in the 40 pitches they were given
I don’t like how whoever hits the most home runs goes last. I feel like they should be able to choose if they want to go first or last. As we saw in this years Derby, in the bracket rounds the lowest seed won each round. Also, Alonso, Ozuna and Henderson were amongst the last 4 to hit in the first round and none of them advanced.
Have the nation vote for team captains. Then, team captains pick one person per division so it’s National League vs American League. 4v4, and then whichever team has the most home runs, wins. The $1 million prize is divided between the four. Whoever on the winning team has the most home runs, gets an extra $250,000.
I find that the most interesting part of the derby is not who can hit the most HRs in a certain amount of time, but who can hit the farthest. If that was the metric being used to determine the winners, it'd incentivize more mashers to participate. Also, there should be some pitching competition before the Derby. Maybe see who can locate best with some targets or sth
The AL/NL designation is so it doesnt count the other leagues that do count toward career stats but were not in the core MLB. That includes the Federal League and Negro Leagues.
Other things I wish about the Home Run Derby: - Only one player per team represented. In your current plans, we would have too many Braves. - I like also like the idea of NL vs AL, so I think the matchups should be made as such. If you have a field of 6, 3 come from NL (all from different teams) and they face 3 from AL (also all from different teams)
The r2 value for most of the charts you are analyzing are incredibly small which means there is no correlation between the y onto the x so there isn't much real correlation you can draw from most of the charts you looked at.
Caveat the player can privately submit a request to the league to not participate for any reason - allows for mental health requests, personal issues at home, exhaustion
Home Run Derby idea 8 competitors First round 10 outs 15 HR max. Player advances with 15 HR and if both batters hit 15 HR it’s based on fewer outs. If outs are same 5 pitches. 1 for 1 like a penalty shoot out. Second round 20 HR max. 8 outs. Same rules as above to advance. Final Each batter gets 20 pitches. 10 for the first, 10 for the second, 5 for the first, and 5 for the second. If a tie, alternating pitches like penalties again.
You could still have a decent idea (on TV) of if balls were gonna go out based on how they sound and come off the bat. I think I liked it better even as a TV experience. Either way I don't think it's something I would really go out my way to watch but I'll watch it when it's on and it's still fun to watch guys hit tanks.
On TV I don’t think the derby was that bad, just a bit slow by the end of the first round and too long to get to the hitting at the start. Still the best ASG event in sports.
Bonds Griffey Big Mac use to do the derby all the time. I loved it growing up. Also like that format a lot better. 10 outs every swing not a Homer is an out. Moves much faster.
Yeah Jomboy just changed the way the players are picked, he never even touched on the actual format at all. I agree, go back to 10 outs and not a timed format
They started doing the AL/NL thing after the Negro Leagues stats were included. I am assuming that the switch is because now if you just say "MLB" you'd have to include the Negro Leagues and they don't want to do that in these types of articles.
If you want a good HRD, you can’t put a time limit on it, you have to count outs. Having to rush to make the time is killing the derby. Guys can’t focus on one swing and it just kills it for me, out of breath from having to rush. They should be trying to break the record that Hamilton hit in Yankee Stadium
I will thumbs up your plan simply because I have been calling for less swings for quite some time. I liked it when they went to the clock but honestly I stopped watching for some time now so I don’t even know the current format. I hate to see a player over exert for this trivial event. I wanted 10 swings regardless, and you’re done. So YES to your new plan.
Never makes sense to me why were not allowed to simply watch each home run one by one like they used to..given the entire thing is centered around home runs The time limit forcing them to rush through the pitches/hits takes away from it so much
Hey Jimmy, big fan of your 3 things series Not sure if you take suggestions for this, but I’ve been curious about why there are some discrepancies between the best defensive players according to baseball reference’s dwar and baseball savants fielding run value. For example, Zach Neto has a top ten dwar in baseball but is in the 17th percentile for fielding run value.
Going back to what i said about eliminating HR Derby as a single thing. If you do Skills then you can have who hits the Longest homerun and who has the most consecutive homeruns as part of the skills. Then you can have throwing accuracy, throwing distance, running and maybe like a relay. That would be so much better to watch then this HR Derby snooze fest.
Go back to to ten outs(out = not a home run). Bring back Chris Berman on the play-by-play Top 4 homerun leaders in each league MUST participate(unless on the INJURED LIST). Prevent teams/players/players agents saying no
Another caveat should be that you can't be under 6 feet or less than 200 lbs. I'm tired of seeing guys like Mookie, Bregman, and J-Ram hitting wall scrapers.
I thought the last round was nail biting. Witt almost pulled it out. Has there ever been a closer ending than that? I feel like that was epic
Shwarber vs breggie was very similar
I haven't really watched the last 5-6 years. It hasn't been good since they dropped the 10 out format. I only watched this year, because of Witt Jr.
I'm not sure if Jimmy necessarily has the math experience to break down these charts. A lot of them the trend line was close enough to average that not much of a conclusion could be drawn from it. Something like bat speed and K% works because as you said guys who swing fast are less in control of their bat generally. But sprint speed and BB% there's almost no correlation there and it showed in the data. The r2 value at the top of the chart shows how much correlation there is in the data. The bigger the number, the more that can be drawn from it. The smaller the number, the less correlated 2 events are.
For the non-math people out there... the r2 at the top basically represents a correlation with 0.00 being absolutely no correlation and 1.00 being perfect correlation. The fact that the majority are
nerd!
I’ve been studying statistics for years and I feel like we shouldn’t downplay the importance of what Jimmy is doing. You first identify the logical relationships in the data, and only then you move to statistical analysis. I could argue that the R^2 doesn’t say anything because there’s missing variables to be considered in the analysis, making the t-statistic inconsistent (the error term is correlated with x). But that’s not what we’re trying to do here, we have a guy who has a lot of knowledge of baseball and is using visual representations to illustrate things that he knows from experience, which adds a lot of value, regardless of whether it’s significant statistically. I’ve learned a lot about baseball by watching these, more than I would be able to grasp if I were to work on the data on my own.
Don’t forget that correlation is not the same as causality, something that MLB teams seem to forget. So we shouldn’t obsess with finding significant correlations.
Yeah I was like “there is no trend in this data” a lot lol
I really liked Jimmy’s charts and actually did a little research myself. I was curious what correlation bat speed and swords (ugly swings) had, and as I expected, the faster you swing the bat the more swords you have. However there were some interesting outliers. Yordan Alvarez and O’Neil Cruz both had average bat speeds near 80 mph, which is amongst the highest and combined the 2 of them only have 3 swords on the season.
Want to do more research on Baseball Savant and see if a pitchers average Velo has the same correlation to swords, but don’t know how to access the pitchers stats.
am i the only one who enjoyed the derby lol
No, I’m with you, the home run derby rocked this year
No I feel like it was decent. It did feel long and but it was worth it for the final round.
i thought it was just fine
Yes.
Started kinda slow but the Teo/Bohm swing off and the ending was great IMO. Bobby missing tying it up by a couple feet was crazy.
I hated that they got rid of the outs format and replaced it with a timer... You used to be able to admire moon shots
Teoscar now has Japanese fans
he’s been killing it this year alr has fans u freak
I live in Japan and nobody knows him. Nice player though
Jimmy can we get a deep dive on the old adage that “a home run derby swing can ruin your average for the rest of the season” it’s one of those things that I hear all the time but never taken the time to look into. Feel like it would be a good Jimmys three things topic
I forget who it was but someone on yt did. And the derby usually had no clear effect on performance from what I recall. But looking at bat speed specifically post-derby could be interesting
Drawing conclusions with the 0.01 R squared 🫡
Lmao
Can I get a 1 sentence breakdown of R value please? Genuine question
@@ninjasuperman9538a high positive r value indicates the two variables have a strong linear correlation.
It’s a measure of “goodness of fit”, or how reliable the line is at explaining the trend seen with the points. An R squared of 1.00 would mean the line intersects every point on the graph (most reliable). An R squared of 0.01 would mean the trend doesn’t fit well at all
Another thing I would add to your new home run derby format would be that the previous year winner has to compete again but if they complete the 3-peat winning 3 years in a row they can sit out after that if they choose to.
I enjoyed the Derby. The last few years, it made me familiar with Adolis Garcia, Julio Rodriguez, Luis Robert, Teoscar Hernandez, and Randy Arozarena, and I got to see Juan Soto and Gunnar Henderson in action.
I think the broadcast needs to do the splitscreen better or not at all. It's fun to watch the ball travel, and they're currently just showing the batter swing and where a ball lands.
Another guy who would have been a treat to watch in the Home Run Derby was Ichiro. He could o/have hit 40-50 homers a season if he really wanted to
Rickey Henderson stole over 60 bases when he was 39 or 40. I thought that was freakin wild when I was drowning myself in bRef stats.
He was 39 with Oakland, and yeah that's wild
How about we got back to whatever the format was when Ruchman was hitting dingers from both sides. Thought it was the best thing ever, then Jrod came up and hit 41. Ill remember both of those more than who won.
10:45 not a math pod
Idk why but as someone going into a science career jomboy managing to accidentally plot the scatter graph correctly was kinda satisfying because he had x and y right without realizing and had the variables on the correct axis
I think I’m ok with moving the All-Star game to Sunday, and add in a skills competition (like NHL).. First half ends on say Wednesday. Skills competition is Friday night, Futures game Saturday Afternoon, Derby Saturday Night, ASG Sunday Night. MLB gets an additional revenue, more stars would more than likely want to be part of the weekend festivities if not in Derby or Game and then season could start back up on Tuesday. Would also give players an extra day off (Thursday - Tuesday) where as now they have 4 days off
3 things. Baseball. Home runs. And Jimmy.
The ippei comment hahahahahahahahaha
As a ranger fan so happy for jurickson profar. Never lived up to anything in Texas and so glad to see him hit his stride.
i'll say it. jimmy is a genius.
As a TV viewer my only issue was that it took too long. I just dont think it should take as long as an actual game lol. The format felt more competitive and had nice tension at the end.
'Cant say no' is always gonna be a hard sell for anything
Let’s say Shohei “can’t say no”. There was big discussion around Shohei not doing it because he’s rehabbing as a pitcher. As a lefty his main hitting arm is his pitching arm. Would seem hindering to require a rehabbing pitcher to put his arm through that.
Reason for the whole AL/NL thing. The MLB has been around since 1876, but from 1876 to 1901 only the National League existed (NL is sometimes referred to as the "Senior Circuit", as it is the older of the two leagues.) AL/NL denotes MLB history since the American league was formed in 1901.
I really enjoyed this years derby
Few things I want to change
1. 2 years is too frequent I'd say every 3 years
2. Using charity to pressure players just doesn't seem right
3. Any player that have been injured before the all star break shouldn't be allegeable - and Ohtani is rehabbing like c'mon let the man rest
4. Give players with the most HRs the choice from the descending order until 8 players are chosen, preferably even with lefties and righties
5. the whole point of the event is watching players hit dingers and fans catching the ball, like why the fuck do you want to lessen the experience of it? just because you get bored in middle?? then don't go
6. I'd say to make everything fair use batting machines instead of personal throwers ( Alonzo had some terrible pitches to hit)
Hey Jimmy, love the weekly three things they are awesome. Ive been wondering how real the post derby slump is. Do guys that participate have worse second halves? Is there any merit at all to concerns about being in the home run derby other than possible injury?
I know the derby will be old news by next week but this seems like a great opportunity for a deep dive.
Hometown team should put up their home run leader no matter what
Josh Naylor is my spirit animal
Thank you Jomboy. Apologize for only listening to the first section about the derby. But you've been on the money about it.
all day derby, per position bracket including pitchers
For those of us who are numbers, stats and graph nerds, I suggest checking out episodes of “Chart Party” on the Secret Base UA-cam channel.
I like the idea of a tag team doing it. So use your criteria to select the main player and he picks his parter from his team.
I think there should be an exception for the top home run hitter for the stadium that is hosting the home run derby, they should be included
Here's the thing about the Derby for me, the rationale you're picking for the Derby and the people you are selecting are kind of working at odds with each other.
Guys hit home runs in games because they are picking up on mistakes, they've been sitting on the bench for a while, and they are fresh when they go up to the plate. Aaron Judge and Shohei could probably destroy the field if you gave them 20 pitches and top score wins. But they don't wanna swing hard for upwards of 100 swings in 30 minutes. I'm not even sure Aaron Judge on swing 100 is going to be better than a replacement player after swing 100.
We truly got robbed not getting Ichiro in the derby.
Big fan of your suggestion. Love the 3 righties and 3 lefties split. Splitting the pot between all players is solid too. Maybe the winner gets their winnings matched by the MLB to their charity of choice so that there’s still something to aim for.
Also, another caveat could be to have at least 1 rookie if they are in the top 20-30 HR leaders or if they have a high SLG. 🤷♂️
I enjoyed it. Everybody just mad because their favorites got out homered by Alec Bohm.
It starts with having players in the derby that ppl wanna watch. Other than Pete Alonso and Henderson it was full of C tier mashers this year
I did genuinely enjoy the derby. But I understand the sentiment of trying to improve it.
Jimmy didn’t take a drink of coffee before he got started - are you okay Jimmy? Say Y-axis if you need help
Damn so the answers to the in-person trivia were in this video. Well played, Jomboy
Thanks.
Thank you for saying ADULT WWE fans. We're losers but we love it
shorten the HRD and add new things to the event night like a baserunning challenge, a long distance throwing challange and more. this would allow mlb to keep the 2 hour event, while showing off the best of all 5 tools
The problem with this is the same problem you have with the All-Star Game in general which is, "WhAt iF SoMEonE GetS HurRRt?!" I feel like the NHL game is the only one where the best of the best actually try in any of the skills challenges.
Let’s make it less than three hours long.
Prison bets by Ippei is crazy😂
I loved the derby. Bohm proved every hater wrong by going out and getting the most in round won and it became a nail biter in the semis against Hernandez. It was fun. I dont think they need that bonus round. They have swung enough in the 40 pitches they were given
I don’t like how whoever hits the most home runs goes last. I feel like they should be able to choose if they want to go first or last. As we saw in this years Derby, in the bracket rounds the lowest seed won each round. Also, Alonso, Ozuna and Henderson were amongst the last 4 to hit in the first round and none of them advanced.
Have the nation vote for team captains. Then, team captains pick one person per division so it’s National League vs American League. 4v4, and then whichever team has the most home runs, wins. The $1 million prize is divided between the four. Whoever on the winning team has the most home runs, gets an extra $250,000.
Jim for President!
I find that the most interesting part of the derby is not who can hit the most HRs in a certain amount of time, but who can hit the farthest. If that was the metric being used to determine the winners, it'd incentivize more mashers to participate.
Also, there should be some pitching competition before the Derby. Maybe see who can locate best with some targets or sth
The AL/NL designation is so it doesnt count the other leagues that do count toward career stats but were not in the core MLB. That includes the Federal League and Negro Leagues.
Other things I wish about the Home Run Derby:
- Only one player per team represented. In your current plans, we would have too many Braves.
- I like also like the idea of NL vs AL, so I think the matchups should be made as such. If you have a field of 6, 3 come from NL (all from different teams) and they face 3 from AL (also all from different teams)
So we're turning the derby into jury duty?
The r2 value for most of the charts you are analyzing are incredibly small which means there is no correlation between the y onto the x so there isn't much real correlation you can draw from most of the charts you looked at.
Opposite field homers should count for more.
If we’re going with this derby format, with shohei rehabbing his pitching arm would he be able to say no?
How about double the home run total for opposite field fingers? Everyone tries to hit homers to the pull side. Just a thought
There would be 3 Braves in the field if this were the requirements lol
I freaking love outliers!!!!!
How about you also bring back one star who has retired in the last 5 years and let them see what they can do? That would be fun
Great idea
Caveat the player can privately submit a request to the league to not participate for any reason - allows for mental health requests, personal issues at home, exhaustion
Home Run Derby idea
8 competitors
First round 10 outs 15 HR max. Player advances with 15 HR and if both batters hit 15 HR it’s based on fewer outs. If outs are same 5 pitches. 1 for 1 like a penalty shoot out.
Second round 20 HR max. 8 outs. Same rules as above to advance.
Final Each batter gets 20 pitches. 10 for the first, 10 for the second, 5 for the first, and 5 for the second. If a tie, alternating pitches like penalties again.
I wonder if there’s any correlation between bat speed and bat weight
You could still have a decent idea (on TV) of if balls were gonna go out based on how they sound and come off the bat. I think I liked it better even as a TV experience. Either way I don't think it's something I would really go out my way to watch but I'll watch it when it's on and it's still fun to watch guys hit tanks.
On TV I don’t think the derby was that bad, just a bit slow by the end of the first round and too long to get to the hitting at the start. Still the best ASG event in sports.
Bonds Griffey Big Mac use to do the derby all the time. I loved it growing up. Also like that format a lot better. 10 outs every swing not a Homer is an out. Moves much faster.
Yeah Jomboy just changed the way the players are picked, he never even touched on the actual format at all. I agree, go back to 10 outs and not a timed format
The HR Derby was fine this year. No need to change anything
Prison bets 😂
They started doing the AL/NL thing after the Negro Leagues stats were included. I am assuming that the switch is because now if you just say "MLB" you'd have to include the Negro Leagues and they don't want to do that in these types of articles.
If you want a good HRD, you can’t put a time limit on it, you have to count outs. Having to rush to make the time is killing the derby. Guys can’t focus on one swing and it just kills it for me, out of breath from having to rush. They should be trying to break the record that Hamilton hit in Yankee Stadium
I think that they shouldn’t do bonus rounds for the first round, that really dragged the first round an extra 45 mins to an hour waiting between
Baez has no batting awareness at all. The John Daly of baseball swings.
I will thumbs up your plan simply because I have been calling for less swings for quite some time. I liked it when they went to the clock but honestly I stopped watching for some time now so I don’t even know the current format. I hate to see a player over exert for this trivial event. I wanted 10 swings regardless, and you’re done. So YES to your new plan.
Derby is an event for the fans man
10 swings? then just cancel the whole thing
Jomboy for next MLB commish? 👀
It is bizarre that the camera isnt behind home plate. The only thing that this whole thing is for is the flight of the ball, not the swing.
Never makes sense to me why were not allowed to simply watch each home run one by one like they used to..given the entire thing is centered around home runs
The time limit forcing them to rush through the pitches/hits takes away from it so much
Split screen is also hard to watch for me
Man, the announcers trying to sound excited was super annoying on the broadcast.
Great episode
ya its too long we need to shorten it up and make it so its not too much and just another batting practice to them
It's really telling of the product the MLB cares about when Nicky Cass in a fat suit is the best part of the Celebrity game.
Wooooooo
Hey Jimmy, big fan of your 3 things series
Not sure if you take suggestions for this, but I’ve been curious about why there are some discrepancies between the best defensive players according to baseball reference’s dwar and baseball savants fielding run value. For example, Zach Neto has a top ten dwar in baseball but is in the 17th percentile for fielding run value.
Also, which is a better stat to judge a player’s defense?
Shohei Harper Stanton Judge Pete Soto Walker Adolis(Hometown)......fight me.
Stanton doesn’t walk because he either gets a hit or strikes out
Going back to what i said about eliminating HR Derby as a single thing. If you do Skills then you can have who hits the Longest homerun and who has the most consecutive homeruns as part of the skills. Then you can have throwing accuracy, throwing distance, running and maybe like a relay. That would be so much better to watch then this HR Derby snooze fest.
I like your proposal for the derby, but maybe add some fan voted contestants. Even if the internet pulls a joke, it would be entertaining.
Double barrel home run derby first round.
Would have loved to see Yordan and Ohtani over Pete and Bohm.
But understand why Ohtani wouldn't compete in it.
“Wow Aaron Judge is in. All of Japan is watching” dawg yeah alright.
He said Judge and Shohei. Which makes sense knowing how intense and nationalist inspired the Japanese view baseball
Didn’t hear the Ohtani part.
bring back 10 outs
Go back to to ten outs(out = not a home run).
Bring back Chris Berman on the play-by-play
Top 4 homerun leaders in each league MUST participate(unless on the INJURED LIST). Prevent teams/players/players agents saying no
Every 500 foot homer gets $100,000
Solid system Jimbo. I couldn’t have been less excited for the HRD’s selections. I was annoyed at how much I didn’t care at all.
Feel like the top 5 HR leaders got to be in there or who cares
You can’t force players to participate. That’s asinine to think that will or should ever be a thing.
Rangers had a ton of all stars last year. Phillies have a ton this year. What’s the correlation btwn allstars and WS appearances?
How to fix the derby. Run it back next year and see if its worse because this year was fan fucking tastic
Another caveat should be that you can't be under 6 feet or less than 200 lbs. I'm tired of seeing guys like Mookie, Bregman, and J-Ram hitting wall scrapers.
these ideas are better, but there is nothing that could make me interested in the hrd.
Would be cool to have it livestreamed for free on UA-cam and Twitch.