Noah Woodward in his The Advance Scout e-newsletter continues to pour out fascinating content material utilizing the brand new Statcast swing knowledge. His newest focuses on what he calls the “cheat swing,” and makes use of Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani for example.
Up-and-in fastballs specifically appear to offer Ohtani probably the most bother, however he tends to swing his hardest on these pitches, which Woodward illustrates with a number of visible swing examples, and he dug into the potential intent of those swings:
Ohtani can cheat. It will probably eradicate the outer half of the plate from consideration. He could begin to open his hips slightly earlier. He can assume “pull” as an alternative of “center of the sphere”.
Right here, it was not sufficient to attach. However do you actually wish to problem Ohtani in that spot on the following pitch? Possibly, possibly not. That swing will make me assume twice.
Former Dodgers proprietor Walter O'Malley's archive is now housed within the Nationwide Baseball Corridor of Fame in Cooperstown, due to a donation from Peter O'Malley and Terry O'Malley Seidler.
Among the many objects within the assortment:
- Three letters from Jackie Robinson to Walter O'Malley
- A 1943 report from Department Rickey to the Dodgers Board of Administrators referring to a “scouting enterprise” that may ultimately consequence within the signing of Jackie Robinson.
- Canceled checks from Walter O'Malley to Department Rickey for the acquisition of Dodgers inventory in 1950 which resulted in O'Malley changing into president of the Dodgers.
- The 1954 press launch saying the signing of Sandy Koufax
- The 1959 Los Angeles metropolis contract that required Walter O'Malley to privately finance and construct Dodger Stadium.
- O'Malley's appointment books from 1934 to 1979
