Nightly Links: Pineda, Turley, Teixeira

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1. T.O. Chris says:

   March 22, 2012 at 9:48 pm

   Man watching Betances pitch can be almost painful at times, it just really shocks me everytime I watch him how little he understands what his mechanics should feel like. He’s all over the place, looks like it effected his velocity today too because it was way down.

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   • Eric Schultz says:

     March 22, 2012 at 10:25 pm

     Betances can definitely be frustrating to watch. He sometimes seems to have no idea where the ball is going. I’m no mechanical expert, but his delivery just looks awkward with a lot of moving parts (probably a function of his size).

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     • T.O. Chris says:

       March 22, 2012 at 11:18 pm

       I won’t claim to be a pitching coach by any means, but it’s pretty clear he isn’t even close to repeating his mechanics. One pitch he’ll be coming down hill, getting good sink on the fastball, and good breaj on the slider. The next pitch he’ll almost be releasing before he gets his foot down, getting no downward plane on his pitches, and fastball sail up and out of the zone (a lot of times terribly) and hanging his curve at the top of the zone. It’s brutal to watch someone fight there mechanics so much. He knows what he’s suppose to do, but he has no feel for repeating them.

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2. Hawaii Dave says:

   March 22, 2012 at 11:46 pm

   Watching Betances is certainly an adventure. Warren was great. I agree with the Tex statements…I posted 2 weeks ago he will win the MVP under the stipulation that he was serious about hitting outer 3rd strike zone pitches to center and left (while batting lefty). To me, he never really had to bunt, just stop pulling every pitch. But, having said that…there was an interesting article on him bunting and statistically, he only needed to be successful a absurdly low amount of times bunting for him to produce better numbers than last year. I have no problem having him laying down a bunt once in a while. but it does make for interesting discussion as you picture a tied game in the 7th or 8th inning and Tex leads off the inning. Do you have him try for a home run which he has a 5% chance or bunt into a horrendous shift which gives him about a 60% success rate. Then you need more math (which I don’t have) to figure out how many times a leadoff walk/single scores. Without knowing the research, I’m guessing a leadoff single scores more often than a home run will occur. But you might have a different opinion.

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