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Guest Harry Pavlidis examines Bard’s breaking ball
firebrandal.com - 15 days ago
Guest Harry Pavlidis examines Bard’s breaking ball
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Harry Pavlidis passes his time as a pitch F/X specialist at The Hardball Times , Beyond the Boxscore and Cubs F/X . He brings today a look at Daniel Bard and his developing slider. Due to his fantastic work, we can now see the two subtle differences between Bard’s evolving slider.  ...

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Fenway West - A Boston Red Sox Blog:  Baldelli, Tek, and Bard

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Over the Monster:  The Dirty Water Filter 11/14 - Return of the Links

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Baldelli, Tek, and Bard
Fenway West - A Boston Red Sox Blog — Rocco Baldelli wants to return to Boston but has not heard from them yet. The Red Sox might choose to go younger and bring up Luis Exposito as the backup catcher.  Exposito has a .753 OPS in the Arizona Fall League.  Varitek offers leadership value but the Red Sox have other choices if they let him walk including Gregg Zaun. Fire Brand of the AL has a great post on Bards breaking ball. ...

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Beyond the Box Score — Harry on Bard's breaking ball: "That which we call a slider, by any other name, would smell as sweet." Visual scouting reports for batters using R. Or, alternatively, Jeremy Greenhouse keeps things hot. How is slot-busting is like marijuana laws and other observations on baseball parity, by Bill Baer. J.C. Bradbury's hot stove myths, or GMs are smarter than you think. The metaphysics of Yankee hating. Geoff Young found himself thinking about Brooks Kieschnick. I sympathize. ...

The Dirty Water Filter 11/14 - Return of the Links
Over the Monster — ... a Flop - New York Baseball Digest Chances this is a MFY executive? Seriously, the person who said this isn't going to win over any sabermatricians by justifying his position with the results of sabermetric GM's teams. Fun With The Elias Rankings - Lookout Landing A very brief glance at the awful awful Elias free agent rankings. This is just sad. So very, very sad. In fact, I need something to cheer me up... Guest Harry Pavlidis examines Bard’s breaking ball - Fire Brand of ...

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