There are going to be good days and bad days with this stuff. I don’t mean the actual reality of the situation – I know there are bad days comings, and I hope the good days follow soon behind. Instead, I mean our relationship to the situation. We’re all gonna have good days and bad days.
It’s been a bad couple days for me. But I can see that. I know that it won’t last forever, and my feelings will change at some point. Keep eating well. Drinking water. Getting exercise. Trying to limit consumption of certain chunks of news (you aren’t going to find some miracle “solution” to your anxiety in the next article you read, Brett). Otherwise do what you can to preserve a sense of good process – like writing these Bullets.
A week after spring training shut down, we still don't know when baseball will be back. But @PJ_Mooney and I still have some thoughts on what's happened since and what we could be missing out on. https://t.co/rXpWnSneNQ
— Sahadev Sharma (@sahadevsharma) March 20, 2020
“In a tick over 1,000 plate appearances for his career, Happ has a 112 wRC+ (league average is 100). Through his first 1,267 plate appearances (2014-17), Báez had an 89 wRC+. In his first 1,211 plate appearances (2011-13), Rizzo had a 103 wRC+. Entering last season, Kyle Schwarber had 1,274 plate appearances and a 113 career wRC+ and he looked like he turned a corner in 2019. Baseball is littered with players who go through ups and downs early in their careers before making necessary adjustments and finding some consistency.
So why should we believe that Happ has the potential to be added to that list? The switch-hitting center fielder spent the majority of last season honing his craft at Triple-A Iowa. He made real changes to his two-strike approach and slight tweaks to his mechanics. It wasn’t a month in the minors or an offseason working on these changes. It was significant time spent struggling through a change that he needed to fully embrace.
Happ appears to have done that. Not only did the numbers from his 58 games in 2019 impress — his strikeout rate dipped over 10 percentage points to 25 percent and he delivered a 127 wRC+ — but it looked like there was a carryover effect this spring. Happ didn’t chase the high heat as much, and when he did, he seemed to mentally take note of it and adjust in subsequent plate appearances.”
We’ve got a fresh pod for you, and it was really nice to have this breather. Hope you enjoy. @TheAthleticCHI @PJ_Mooney @sahadevsharma https://t.co/ggwXsDkfkJ
— Brett Taylor (@Brett_A_Taylor) March 20, 2020
Randy Johnson, Hall of Fame Sword. ⚔️😂
[h/t @coker_UDub] pic.twitter.com/w49Rn1JoH0
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) March 21, 2020
Broshuis: "Minor league baseball players do not have a union, and did not have any other group advocating on
their behalf: until now."— Bill Shaikin (@BillShaikin) March 20, 2020
After the lunch break now…
2020 Crossroad Dash. Live.#LifeCommentary #LiveCommentary pic.twitter.com/QFkW0SUqy8
— Nick Heath (@nickheathsport) March 17, 2020
NBC Sports Washington is airing NBA2K and NHL2K simulations of the remaining Wizards and Capitals games this season in the timeslots for the rest of the season's schedulehttps://t.co/g8QByUxQh9
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) March 20, 2020