Sandy tries to help the fish make it EIGHT in a row

Marlins face Logan Gilbert today and he has the lowest ERA in the American League. But it is a bit of a quandary. Sure he has a slightly higher than average K rate and lower than average BB rate, but he is giving up some hard contact. His Statcast HardHit% is 46.6%. That is more than 10% worse than MLB average. This has led to a higher than average exit velo. And they are not just on the ground. His flyball and line drive rate are worse than MLB average. It has led to the odd scenario where his hard hit rate and line drive rate are worse than last year, but his BAbip against is nearly 50 points lower. Me thinks that he is playing with fire and getting lucky. Good BAbip luck for him. Line drives right at guys etc. This is not sustainable. He will give up a bunch of runs at some point. Hopefully it is today.

Also another thing that I saw was despite having a better than average K rate, he has a lower percentile whiff% and chase rate. According to Mariners SB Nation it looks like he generates a lot of foul balls and so I guess he wears guys down with that.

 

Here's an article that you can read about him that was written before the season:

https://www.lookoutlanding.com/2021/12/9/22790960/identifying-improving-logan-gilberts-incredibly-obvious-weapon-shh-its-a-fastball-seattle-mariners

Edited May 1, 20224 yr by FishFan95

Since baseball makes no sense and most people are expecting this to be a pitchers duel, watch it end up being a 10-8 final.

WE CAN'T LOSE!

1 minute ago, hovertical said:

WE CAN'T LOSE!

Jazz is sitting today cause he has stomach distress

 

10 minutes ago, SonOfJack said:

Jazz is sitting today cause he has stomach distress

Is that real or you made it up?

3 minutes ago, rmc523 said:

Is that real or you made it up?

i'm guessing real considering multiple players have gotten whatever the stomach bug is going around on the team

6 minutes ago, rmc523 said:

Is that real or you made it up?

Real

 

i think even Amber Heard caught it

12 minutes ago, SonOfJack said:

Real

I was going to say there's no reason for Jazz to be off 2 days in a row.

Jazz's stomach still upset from Don's bullshit

PLAY BALL!

Yay one down

1 down, 26 to go

Sandy hates French people.

Just now, Michael said:

Sandy hates French people.

UNCONVENTIONAL DOOBLAY PLAHHH!!

OMG A RARE DP, I love DP especially RARE DP

Let us go, Berti.

Let the birdie get on base and then fly

Winker's double play he lined into had an xBA of .640.

How we doing, boys?

Edited May 1, 20224 yr by FishFan95