Comments on: Approaching the Tigers approach http://www.detroittigersweblog.com/2006/08/approaching-the-tigers-approach/ News, views, and analysis on the Detroit Tigers and baseball Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:39:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: BuzzTracker.com http://www.detroittigersweblog.com/2006/08/approaching-the-tigers-approach/#comment-12794 BuzzTracker.com Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:56:06 +0000 http://www.detroittigersweblog.com/2006/08/approaching-the-tigers-approach/#comment-12794 <strong>Featured on BuzzTracker...</strong> ... Featured on BuzzTracker…

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]]> By: Jeff Mo http://www.detroittigersweblog.com/2006/08/approaching-the-tigers-approach/#comment-12290 Jeff Mo Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:02:09 +0000 http://www.detroittigersweblog.com/2006/08/approaching-the-tigers-approach/#comment-12290 You're definitely right. The whole "approach" thing is overblown. Any idiot can go up there and take a couple pitches, but if the pitchers knows that's what you're doing, he'll make sure to put them over the plate. It really comes down to two things: Can you figure out what the pitcher is trying to do to you? and Can you adjust quick enough if you're wrong? Our guys definitely seem to have a problem with the second question, but it is what it is. It isn't very often that you can take a guy that's been playing the game for a couple decades and teach him that in a few weeks, months, or even seasons. If he hasn't figured out how to do it yet, he probably isn't going to. That doesn't mean you quit trying, of course, but it's ludicrous to just say "What an dumb coaching staff. They can't even get guys to take a few pitches." P.S. The same thing goes for telling a pitcher to "throw first-pitch strikes." Everyone who makes it to the Majors knows that you need to do that, but if your control is bad and the only way you can reliably get a strike is to throw it down the middle, you're going to give up a lot of first-pitch hits. You’re definitely right. The whole “approach” thing is overblown. Any idiot can go up there and take a couple pitches, but if the pitchers knows that’s what you’re doing, he’ll make sure to put them over the plate. It really comes down to two things: Can you figure out what the pitcher is trying to do to you? and Can you adjust quick enough if you’re wrong?

Our guys definitely seem to have a problem with the second question, but it is what it is. It isn’t very often that you can take a guy that’s been playing the game for a couple decades and teach him that in a few weeks, months, or even seasons. If he hasn’t figured out how to do it yet, he probably isn’t going to.

That doesn’t mean you quit trying, of course, but it’s ludicrous to just say “What an dumb coaching staff. They can’t even get guys to take a few pitches.”

P.S. The same thing goes for telling a pitcher to “throw first-pitch strikes.” Everyone who makes it to the Majors knows that you need to do that, but if your control is bad and the only way you can reliably get a strike is to throw it down the middle, you’re going to give up a lot of first-pitch hits.

]]> By: Tater http://www.detroittigersweblog.com/2006/08/approaching-the-tigers-approach/#comment-12178 Tater Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:02:54 +0000 http://www.detroittigersweblog.com/2006/08/approaching-the-tigers-approach/#comment-12178 Nice analysis, Billfer. Nice analysis, Billfer.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.detroittigersweblog.com/2006/08/approaching-the-tigers-approach/#comment-12164 Kevin Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:10:46 +0000 http://www.detroittigersweblog.com/2006/08/approaching-the-tigers-approach/#comment-12164 This is an interesting point in all of the statistical analysis stuff that has taken off with the internet....Yankee fans will look at it like Randy Johnson pitched a helluva game, and Tiger fans will look at it like the batters failed. This is an interesting point in all of the statistical analysis stuff that has taken off with the internet….Yankee fans will look at it like Randy Johnson pitched a helluva game, and Tiger fans will look at it like the batters failed.

]]> By: Mack Avenue Tigers: A Detroit Tigers Blog » Game 134: Goodbye August, Tigs fall http://www.detroittigersweblog.com/2006/08/approaching-the-tigers-approach/#comment-12134 Mack Avenue Tigers: A Detroit Tigers Blog » Game 134: Goodbye August, Tigs fall Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:10:29 +0000 http://www.detroittigersweblog.com/2006/08/approaching-the-tigers-approach/#comment-12134 [...] I thought the batters did, while not a perfect job, a good enough one when you consider Randy Johnson was on the mound. Same thing goes for against Wang yesterday. As Bilfer pointed out, the pitches per plate appearance ranked with the Yankees. It may not have turned out as we’d have liked, but that was Yankee Stadium and the home team does do pretty good when it’s there. [...] [...] I thought the batters did, while not a perfect job, a good enough one when you consider Randy Johnson was on the mound. Same thing goes for against Wang yesterday. As Bilfer pointed out, the pitches per plate appearance ranked with the Yankees. It may not have turned out as we’d have liked, but that was Yankee Stadium and the home team does do pretty good when it’s there. [...]

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