As bad as this team was offensively in 2025, the Pirates had dealt with some of the best defense against them. Tommy Pham also spoke on the matter.
As bad as this team was offensively in 2025, the Pirates had dealt with some of the best defense against them. Tommy Pham also spoke on the matter.
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Did it only affect the home team?
Explains pitchiny staff success as well
Okay maybe a stupid question.. but why wasn’t that a priority to get fixed as soon as it broke?
Am I having a stroke? What does what Pham said have to do with the title of this post? What does the humidor have to do with the defense against them? If anything the defense should have been worse because the balls would have a bigger hop no? What am I missing?
I couldn’t possibly be more ignorant about how to fix a humidor or what kind of problems they have, but how would a broken humidor hurt the hitters exactly? They make the ball more humid so it’s deader.
I guess it could be broken in a way that makes the balls too humid, but if so wouldn’t they just…not put them in there?
Pham certainly knows more about it than me but it just doesn’t seem to track logically.
Let me preface this by saying i hate metrics, but i begrudgingly have to use them to make my point, lol.
When you do a deep dive and see what some of these guys xBA are in comparison to their actual BAs it shows how unlucky some of these guys were. One prime example is Davis, his BA was .167 but his xBA was .213. I think we’d all sign up for him hitting .213.
Can we get this guy back?