One thing is for certain is that Barrel% needs to be focused on durign Offseason and Spring Training
October 3, 2025
One thing is for certain is that Barrel% needs to be focused on durign Offseason and Spring Training
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Hit it where it’s pitched philosophy. Instead of hunt for damage.
All four of these teams made the playoffs lol
It starts with the lineup/ roster. We need more Gavin Sheets and less Iglesias & Arraez.
When they pulled Sheets for Iglesias yesterday down 2 with a runner on that says it all. Yes, Gavin Sheets has to hit lefty on lefty, BUT if Gavin Sheets has a moment the game is tied. If Iglesias has a moment we still trail 2-1.
It’s an interesting dynamic – I think their approach plays OK enough to be successful over 162… but in a best of 3 against a teams best you need to be able to hit a HR or 5 (or at least doing so increases your odds of winning significantly)
hmmm maybe we need to figure out Brewers secret because they’re still in it.
I think this argues that we should further reduce our barrel % because the best team in the sport had even fewer barrels.
(I’m kidding, of course, but there is no one magic fix that turns a good team bad or a bad team good. Baseball is a game with many ways to win.)
Not the smoking gun you expected…. You’re not wrong… just terrible examples beside them. Esp the #1 seed in the Nl.
The other read is that the numbers are faulty or the stat doesn’t matter (though I think everyone can agree hitting the ball on the barrel of the bat = good), since all 4 of those teams made the playoffs.
Lets be honest, even if we would have beaten the cubs, we would not win the world series with how our team was performing.
This is an argument for it. Not against it.
Wasn’t the 2023 season all fucked up because they were trying to hit a home run every at bat? I think if they can get to where they were last year would be the sweet spot.
The team was mediocre. A regression to the mean Especially after last year. 24 was the year and let it get away.
If you told me this team had 90 wins without King, Yu, for most of the year, and JR homer drought. Team should have been around 75-80 wins.
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Hit it where it’s pitched philosophy. Instead of hunt for damage.
All four of these teams made the playoffs lol
It starts with the lineup/ roster. We need more Gavin Sheets and less Iglesias & Arraez.
When they pulled Sheets for Iglesias yesterday down 2 with a runner on that says it all. Yes, Gavin Sheets has to hit lefty on lefty, BUT if Gavin Sheets has a moment the game is tied. If Iglesias has a moment we still trail 2-1.
They aren’t really experts after all.
https://preview.redd.it/r0nax7mbnxsf1.png?width=720&format=png&auto=webp&s=68d9638d1f3b51cd939717792d8a9054f33c073f
It’s an interesting dynamic – I think their approach plays OK enough to be successful over 162… but in a best of 3 against a teams best you need to be able to hit a HR or 5 (or at least doing so increases your odds of winning significantly)
hmmm maybe we need to figure out Brewers secret because they’re still in it.
I think this argues that we should further reduce our barrel % because the best team in the sport had even fewer barrels.
(I’m kidding, of course, but there is no one magic fix that turns a good team bad or a bad team good. Baseball is a game with many ways to win.)
Not the smoking gun you expected…. You’re not wrong… just terrible examples beside them. Esp the #1 seed in the Nl.
https://preview.redd.it/wr0k4u0u6ysf1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=acc7b167a23f3d3481df2e81ad3a66cb1bd63bd4
Starting a barrel man shrine
The other read is that the numbers are faulty or the stat doesn’t matter (though I think everyone can agree hitting the ball on the barrel of the bat = good), since all 4 of those teams made the playoffs.
Lets be honest, even if we would have beaten the cubs, we would not win the world series with how our team was performing.
This is an argument for it. Not against it.
Wasn’t the 2023 season all fucked up because they were trying to hit a home run every at bat? I think if they can get to where they were last year would be the sweet spot.
The team was mediocre. A regression to the mean Especially after last year. 24 was the year and let it get away.
If you told me this team had 90 wins without King, Yu, for most of the year, and JR homer drought. Team should have been around 75-80 wins.