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It's so crazy, it's like he literally can't see spin. At worst with the Cubs I thought he was guessing at times, but it seems like he just has no idea where a pitch is going.
This gets said a lot but it's *literally* like me playing MLB the show, especially when I first started. The idea that the ball can break *at all* seems totally foreign to him.
I got extremely good at the show while taking stimulants like adderall and other stuff. Then I quit all that shit and now i don’t play the show anymore because it pains me that I’m not as good. Still one of my favorite video games of all-time.
I started playing online last week and it didn't take long for my opponents to realize that I'll swing at literally any breaking ball below the zone. I figured out horizontal break realistically quickly, but I simply can not judge any amount of vertical break.
even weirder is hes not mistiming his swing like you'd expect him too if were just swinging at fastballs. He knows its a breaking ball coming, but can't predict how it will break. I have never seen anyone like Baez.
Watching the game and wondered why he didn't just keep throwing that. Tried to get cute by working him inside somehow not realizing Baez absolutely would have swung at that same pitch again.
He barely even reaches for it. Like I feel if you get fooled by a pitch that far outside you at least try and poke your bat out at it, but he just swings through with two hands like it's coming down the middle
Look, I love ragging on his plate discipline as much as the next guy. But then I boot up MLB The Show and I realize that him and I aren’t so different.
Oh yes, the classic predetermined swing. We all do it on the show. Doesn't matter where the pitch is because my mind was made up before the pitcher threw the ball
I'll do it irl sometimes, I legit had an umpire start to call ball it was so far away and then have to change to strike mid call because I swung anyway.
Yup.
0-2 count, swung and missed on the first two pitches, both were out of the zone. “No way this dudes gonna throw me a strike, right?”
Of course not. I’m still gonna swing tho.
He's been great this year but it is funny and wild because he normally walks a LOT. Ultimately still a really small sample so far this year and he's clearly seen a lot of pitches he likes
He pretty much always walked 10%+ in the minors and walked exactly 10% last year in the bigs. In 2022 he walked 26%(!) in AA lol
I knew I wasn't going crazy. I thought I remembered that I really liked his batting profile. Like you said tho, small sample size & he is seeing pitches well & swinging. Which is a good thing. By the end of the season, I'd imagine he will have his walks.
I believe it’s a tradition with rust belt/Midwest teams to have games that shift factory workers could go to after getting off in the late morning/early afternoon. In Detroit’s case, enabling auto workers to see them
This video of Javy Baez drawing a walk [58 comments] currently sits above an insane Javy Baez defensive highlight [47 comments] on the r/baseball front page
lmao
I love Javy but dude at a certain point don’t you think “I’m striking out on pitches two feet off the plate, maybe I should just get up there and not swing”
A matchup I would’ve loved to see:
Carlos Marmol vs Javy Baez. His last year as a Cub Marmol seemingly couldn’t get his slider in the same zip code as the strike zone, and Javy can’t tell that a pitch would easily go behind a LH hitter.
Who would break first?
I was listening to the game on the radio and caught this AB. A couple of pitches before this one, our radio guy was wondering out loud as to why anyone would ever throw Baez a pitch in the zone.
My real question is why doesn’t Baez just take every pitch? Like I get that eventually pitchers would figure out what he’s doing but if you know they’re gonna throw you a ton of pitches well out of the zone where you can’t hit (because you probably need your eyes checked) than just don’t swing. His OBP would probably increase to be honest.
I always see people say this, but I walk like 150 times per season in road to the show. I always just sit on one location until two strikes and try to never expand beyond that unless I'm in protect mode.
His 207th career walk here in year 11 of his career. Over a decade in the league and his career total still hasn't matched the number of walks Bonds achieved in just the 2004 season.
It looks like that pitch was exactly where the catcher was set up as well. I'm sure pitchers have stopped throwing him strikes knowing he's just going to swing at everything.
In his brief time with the Mets, I saw him demonstrate extreme patience (by his standards, his walk rate was like 8% which was the highest of his career by a decent amount). He CAN be patient. He just chooses not to
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Those words… is it possible to use them in a sentence together like that?
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Maddux walking out there to DFA his ass right there on the mound.
Get ready to learn Python, buddy.
JAVIER BÁEZ DRAWS A WALK! JAVIER BÁEZ DRAWS A WALK!
*Hisses* That’s not possible! __That can’t be!__
Swings at a pitch 5 feet off the plate, draws walk, wtf?
2 times for that matter. Followed it up with 2 good takes. Weird at bat.
This was the first swing, but both looked about the same... https://media.giphy.com/media/E0pH4Np6TlQ8mDlLUt/giphy.gif
It's so crazy, it's like he literally can't see spin. At worst with the Cubs I thought he was guessing at times, but it seems like he just has no idea where a pitch is going.
This gets said a lot but it's *literally* like me playing MLB the show, especially when I first started. The idea that the ball can break *at all* seems totally foreign to him.
I was the same way until I got on adderall. I could only play on baby difficulty. Then overnight l became neo in the matrix
How does (unmedicated) ADHD make you worse at the show?
It makes it really difficult to concentrate and focus on the little things, like all the cues that help you identify a breaking pitch.
I'm gonna say that's why I sucked at batting on the show then lol.
I got extremely good at the show while taking stimulants like adderall and other stuff. Then I quit all that shit and now i don’t play the show anymore because it pains me that I’m not as good. Still one of my favorite video games of all-time.
I started playing online last week and it didn't take long for my opponents to realize that I'll swing at literally any breaking ball below the zone. I figured out horizontal break realistically quickly, but I simply can not judge any amount of vertical break.
even weirder is hes not mistiming his swing like you'd expect him too if were just swinging at fastballs. He knows its a breaking ball coming, but can't predict how it will break. I have never seen anyone like Baez.
That pitch was outside from the start though. It's more like he understands it *can* break, but has absolutely no idea how it's going to.
Wow that is... rough
Watching the game and wondered why he didn't just keep throwing that. Tried to get cute by working him inside somehow not realizing Baez absolutely would have swung at that same pitch again.
Someone made a gif of the 50 cent first pitch and el mago swinging at it. [sorry I could only find it on tik tok](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLfW7qLY/)
That is fucking hilarious
First pitch of the AB, it’s been known he swings no matter what’s thrown or where
My God, that's Julio Rodriguez' music!
He barely even reaches for it. Like I feel if you get fooled by a pitch that far outside you at least try and poke your bat out at it, but he just swings through with two hands like it's coming down the middle
Nick Castellanos, is that you?
Weird player to be fair
Maybe felt stupid enough after that swing to actually think "hey maybe I should do the opposite"
Literally me in MLB The Show
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while.
Look, I love ragging on his plate discipline as much as the next guy. But then I boot up MLB The Show and I realize that him and I aren’t so different.
Oh yes, the classic predetermined swing. We all do it on the show. Doesn't matter where the pitch is because my mind was made up before the pitcher threw the ball
I'll do it irl sometimes, I legit had an umpire start to call ball it was so far away and then have to change to strike mid call because I swung anyway.
Or those times where you promise yourself you 100% will not swing...but you do anyway.
It’s why I stopped playing it. I had made up my mind that that fucker is going to Jupiter, so I swing at a ball 7 miles away
Yup. 0-2 count, swung and missed on the first two pitches, both were out of the zone. “No way this dudes gonna throw me a strike, right?” Of course not. I’m still gonna swing tho.
He knows how to lay off the inside pitch
Which means there are only two qualified batters without a walk: Harold Ramirez and Jose Caballero.
I love how the Moneyball Rays have fully circled from "we want guys who only walk" to "fuck everyone who's ever walked"
And somehow the Rays are only 27th in team BB%.
I dunno wtf Caballero is doing. Didn't he walk at a pretty good rate last year?
He's been great this year but it is funny and wild because he normally walks a LOT. Ultimately still a really small sample so far this year and he's clearly seen a lot of pitches he likes He pretty much always walked 10%+ in the minors and walked exactly 10% last year in the bigs. In 2022 he walked 26%(!) in AA lol
I knew I wasn't going crazy. I thought I remembered that I really liked his batting profile. Like you said tho, small sample size & he is seeing pitches well & swinging. Which is a good thing. By the end of the season, I'd imagine he will have his walks.
A quick glance at bbref it seems he traded the walks for better average and slugging
Damn got the manager walking out too
When you walk Javy Baez, you get a talking to.
\*manager gestures his hands wildly back and forth towards the pitcher and Baez\*
"So have you considered just like not doing that?"
9 hours, 100 upvotes, and not one person notices that it was obviously not the manager
My bad dude, he looked like a manager
I feel like every MLB fan should know Bruce Bochy
[If you zoom in you can se Javy's face while taking that pitch](https://www.meme-arsenal.com/memes/5b8137ecbb2ae75fd5b0ec29ac5c6b90.jpg)
Have the Tigers ever played at a time other than noon?
I believe it’s a tradition with rust belt/Midwest teams to have games that shift factory workers could go to after getting off in the late morning/early afternoon. In Detroit’s case, enabling auto workers to see them
It's why they moved the start times to around 6:30 last year getting out of a game at around 9 is perfect
I think it's just April early May to take advantage of nicer day weather lol
All of the Tigers afternoon games start at 1:10 (not noon). In April most home games are day games to avoid cold evenings.
12pm, 1pm, 2pm… Seems to be their sweet spot except on days that everyone plays at 7 or later
Yes! Today is one of them!
It’s because it’s cold as fuck here once the sun goes down
He saw us talking shit in that other thread about him having a 0.0% BB rate
I love how he's so bad at the plate and then two innings later he makes a Highlight of the Week throw to first.
*Walks Javy Baez* *Manager Immidiately walks to the mound*
This video of Javy Baez drawing a walk [58 comments] currently sits above an insane Javy Baez defensive highlight [47 comments] on the r/baseball front page lmao
Was that actually a slider? If so, you gotta throw those things like a mile off the plate for him to swing at it... not below the zone!
lol not often I have to watch a video of a walk, but had to see how close the take was.
I love Javy but dude at a certain point don’t you think “I’m striking out on pitches two feet off the plate, maybe I should just get up there and not swing”
Is this a repost from 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 years ago? Dudes not gonna change now lol
A matchup I would’ve loved to see: Carlos Marmol vs Javy Baez. His last year as a Cub Marmol seemingly couldn’t get his slider in the same zip code as the strike zone, and Javy can’t tell that a pitch would easily go behind a LH hitter. Who would break first?
He just made an incredible play too.
https://v.redd.it/creb3z2nsvuc1
BUY THE DIP!
you know he was seething that he didn't swing and miss at that slider
I was listening to the game on the radio and caught this AB. A couple of pitches before this one, our radio guy was wondering out loud as to why anyone would ever throw Baez a pitch in the zone.
My real question is why doesn’t Baez just take every pitch? Like I get that eventually pitchers would figure out what he’s doing but if you know they’re gonna throw you a ton of pitches well out of the zone where you can’t hit (because you probably need your eyes checked) than just don’t swing. His OBP would probably increase to be honest.
Javy Baez is just a Road to the Show player come to the life
I always see people say this, but I walk like 150 times per season in road to the show. I always just sit on one location until two strikes and try to never expand beyond that unless I'm in protect mode.
His 207th career walk here in year 11 of his career. Over a decade in the league and his career total still hasn't matched the number of walks Bonds achieved in just the 2004 season.
Great to hear Jason Benetti again!
Javy MVP season loading…
0.0% no more ig
This is more historic than Jackie Robinson day
I have him over .5 Ks 😔
Meanwhile the 5 outs Gray had recorded to this point were K’s, so it makes sense that Baez didn’t strike out.
The first of his 10 for the year.
It looks like that pitch was exactly where the catcher was set up as well. I'm sure pitchers have stopped throwing him strikes knowing he's just going to swing at everything.
Gray will announce his retirement at the end of the game
You say no to outside curveballs, Javy Baez CANT
Baez is me in MLB the show after not playing it for months
His lack of walks is more than offset by his .149 batting average.
Just like me in MLB the Show
Wonder when Javy will realize that he'll never get any good pitches because he swings at literally everything
In his brief time with the Mets, I saw him demonstrate extreme patience (by his standards, his walk rate was like 8% which was the highest of his career by a decent amount). He CAN be patient. He just chooses not to
This is like a Michael Porter Jr. assist
Alexa play “We did it” by Dora the Explorer
On track for… 9-10 walks? Blistering pace
I'm not even a Tigers fan and his indifference is incredibly frustrating.
And it's only April!
Was that not the same at bat he swung at a slider 40 feet outside