Luis Gil (#81, 26, RHP, 3-1, 2.92) vs. Tyler Alexander (#14, 29, LHP, 1-1, 4.96)
YANKEES
SS A. Volpe R
RF Juan Soto L
CF Aaron Judge R
DH G. Stanton R
1B A. Rizzo L
2B G. Torres R
3B Jon Berti R
C Jose Trevino R
LF Jahmai Jones R
RAYS
1B Yandy Diaz R
RF Josh Lowe L
DH R. Arozarena R
3B I. Paredes R
2B R. Palacios L
SS Amed Rosario R
LF Jonny DeLuca R
C Ben Rortvedt L
CF Jose Siri R
Hopefully Gil has another good game.
Only Booner would start a very bad hitter, Jones, out of position. He probably is the best option for left field other than Verdugo or Grisham who has a higher OPS against LHPs than right or Berti who has 95 games in the out field or Waldo.
Great play Volpe who is now back up to 782 after a leadoff triple.
go gil
Booner is a genius, “he can hit, we know he can hit,” 178/229/222
So many barrels today. Gil has been lucky. But everyone on both sides is hitting absolute rockets.
Think the last four balls in play have all been 105+
Can’t get lazy when facing the dangerous Jose Trevino
Powerful bottom of the lineup
I like these games where the Yankees score lots of runs
Yankees are undefeated in games Judge, Trevino and Jahmai Jones homer.(Premature assumption?)
eat my shit, rortvedt!
gil-e-otomy!
One more inning for Gil?
Can’t argue with the results but one might wish he threw more strikes.
6 innings no runs? I’ll take 162 of that please
TABLE SETTER JAHMAI JONES
Still don’t know who anyone in the bullpen is, still not going to learn
I think this was a wise decision
Caleb Ferguson 6.43 era, 0-3 TNRF The New Run Fairy
Ahhh…I remember that guy.
grumble
This is poop
Poop from a butt
The worst kind of poop
Bullpen implosion, eh.
That had to be one of the worst pitched innings in the history of pitched innings
Burdi only had 1 minor league rehab game. Not enough?
Marinaccio had been pitching well, so they had to send him down to bring Burdi up. It is just more Stupid Cashman stuff.
I guarantee Grisham runs into an out here
Worst loss of the season incoming.
Never a doubt
Well that was unexpected
Still hate Torres though
Gleyber with a cromulent AB and an equally cromulent outcome.
Much needed tack on runs, and [3] from Gleyber no less. Who woulda thunk it?
When was the last time the Yankees got punched in the dick and responded with a dick-punching of their own?
When Donaldson hit that walk off granny in 2022?
Don’t look now but Severino’s having a nice season
Happy for him. I really thought he was done.
I think he’s ok, but middle sp type now
Stanton #1, Judge #7, Soto tied for #9 in bat speed so far in 2024. https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-bat-speed-leaders-for-2024
These new bat-tracking metrics, even the more opaque ones, are nifty. Soto ranks super high on “squared-up rate” – 40% of swings (3rd in MLB) or 50% of contact (2nd in MLB) – while Stanton and Judge currently rank at or below average in squaring the ball up, and appear to compensate with their bat speed. The fact that Soto both swings fast and squares it up well might correlate with his swing being shorter.
The MLB leader in “squared up rate”, at least for swings, is Luis Arraez, whose bat speed is well below average. By Statcast measurements, his swing is also super short.
There does seem to be a direct correlation between “swing length” and bat speed (suggesting relatively constant swing times across the league), and an inverse correlation between “swing length” and “squared-up rate”.
They don’t measure “swing time”, but absent direct measurement, such a metric could be computed as a ratio of swing length to bat speed. Would be interesting to see whether shorter swing time is actually allowing Soto to start a swing later, see a ball longer, square it up better.
Would also be fun if these kinds of metrics had existed back in the days of Wee Willie Keeler, or Tony Gwynn, or Ichiro, or Vlad Sr., or Barry Bonds.
It’s not surprising that Stanton and Judge have such long swings as they have such “long levers” as Eric Longehagen refers to them. This is why really big guys are considered difficult to develop and why they are ao often “all or nothing” hitters as Stanton has become.
The ESPN crew last night mentioned that Chipper Jones swung a heavier bat with a thicker handle to *slow down* his swing with the aim of keeping it in the zone longer.