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[obessedandproud]

Is he an American rapper?

HAHAHA, good answer sweetie but no.

He’s answer cracks me up especially because it could be... I mean there’s 2 Chainz, 50 Cent, 2Pac. So why not 4Seam?

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"Miyuki ignoring Sawamura" Summer Tournament 1

When miyuki was officially partnered to Furuya and Chris was Sawamura's partner????

Miyuki was already main catcher. Looking after Sawamura (who was barely a proper pitcher) during off-game/off-field was not his job no matter how much Sawamura yelled to catch for him. That was Chris’s task. 

Furuya was assigned to Miyuki because Furuya was the de facto Ace. As main catcher he had to work with the STARTING pitcher who was always Furuya. 

by the start of summer tournament in July, 

Furuya was starter because he had

140+ kph cannonballs (which he could sometimes place on the inside and outside corners and mostly on the middle of the strikezone)

 2 breaking balls: splitter and forkball

cool and calm composure on the mound no matter how frustrated he was

ability to hit homeruns

Sawamura's job was relief because he only had

inside pitches using moving fastballs and 4seam grip

weird pitching form that disrupts the batters timing

unreasonable baseless courage which was useful in high pressure situations

unpredictable emotions at the worst times

Having Furuya’s variety of pitches was already a good enough weapon for Seido because as long as he had stamina, could control his balls and as long as the batters were unskilled enough to swing on the high pitches, Seido was always guaranteed many strikeouts.

Sawamura was used as the element of surprise that’s why he was often put in situations where the tension of the game was highest. However skilled batters could easily overpower him if they swung before his pitches broke at the plate.

Sure Furuya and Sawamura were both idiots and have absolutely no game sense or any idea about pitch calling, but as far as pitcher qualities was concerned, Furuya was clearly more battle ready than Sawamura.

There are many discussions of how Miyuki was always watching over Sawamura but it’s baffling how many viewers don’t notice how as the main catcher, Miyuki always checked up on all the batteries aside from his own with Furuya namely

Kawakami-Ono

Tanba-Miyauchi

Sawamura-Chris

Miyuki had to be on top of everything the 1st string pitchers were doing because in the end he’ll have to be partnered with them in matches. 

Quietly watching over Sawamura and by extension, all the other 1st string pitchers WAS HIS JOB.

He confronted Tanba about his secret forkball practice with Miyauchi. It’s not so different from him observing Chris/Sawamura/Kanemaru practicing the 4-seam at night (and before an official match no less).

Miyuki had every right to be amazed whenever the pitchers showed him something new like Furuya’s splitter, Tanba’s forkball and improved curveball, Sawamura’s crossfire and Kawakami’s precise control because it meant gaining new or improved weapons.

I’m not dismissing the idea of Miyuki being personally fond of Sawamura though. He met Sawamura when the latter was still in junior high after all. He even caught Sawamura’s first hard baseball pitches when they went against Azuma. He was the first person who understood Sawamura’s potential. He was one of the first people who talked to Sawamura when the latter actually entered the Seido Spirit Dorms. That interest also translated to him watching over Sawamura’s growth from a distance especially when Sawamura actually made it into the second and first string despite all odds. That’s special in itself already. 

But Miyuki didn’t have a reason to completely trust Sawamura either. We can say that he always, by default, underestimated both him and Furuya. That’s why he was easily surprised and amazed when both of them did something new or had better performance. Moreover It was always a gamble to put Sawamura on the field anyway and Miyuki had to make do with Sawamura’s limited repertoire and bottomless courage and drive. Seido was lucky that Sawamura delivered good performance most of the times but he also failed just as hard.

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Yankees (9-12) at Orioles (9-12)

Game One – Monday at 705pm on YES: Deivi Garcia (first start) vs Matt Harvey (1-1, 5.12 ERA)

Game Two – Tuesday at 705pm on WPIX: Corey Kluber (0-2, 5.40 ERA) vs Bruce Zimmerman (4.57 ERA) Game Three – Wednesday at 705pm on YES: Domingo German (1-2, 6.23 ERA) vs TBD (Likely Dean Kremer, who is 0-1 with a 6.75 ERA)

Game Four – Thursday at 105pm on YES and MLBN: Jordan Montgomery (1-1, 4.57 ERA) vs Jorge Lopez (1-3, 8.15 ERA)

Orioles Injury Report

RHP Mac Sceroler – On the 10 Day IL with shoulder tendinitis, no timetable for return

RHP Hunter Harvey – On the 60 Day IL with a strained oblique, no timetable for return

OF Anthony Santander – On the 10 Day IL with a sprained ankle, expected back in the middle of May

DH Chris Davis – On the 60 Day IL with a strained back, no timetable for return

Orioles Pitching

Baltimore’s pitching is similar to the Yankees in a few ways—they are 15th in baseball in ERA, don’t walk a lot of guys, their bullpen has been pretty strong, but their rotation is one really good pitcher and four meh ones. Luckily for the Yanks, their really good pitcher (Means) started on Sunday and will miss the series.

Tuesday’s starter is Matt Harvey, who is someone I’m not sure why he continues to get opportunities to be a starter in Major League Baseball? Harvey has his best ERA+ since his heyday in 2015 this year, at a whopping 84 ERA+. The one thing he’s been really good at the last few years is his walk rate, which this year is all the way down to 3.4%. However, his walk rate being that low is honestly a really bad thing:

Throwing a 93mph fastball in the middle of the zone over and over again is a really easy way to get lit up, and people aren’t exactly missing on the fastball—it has a 14.7% whiff rate and a 42.9% hard hit rate.

On Tuesday, the Yankees face Bruce Zimmerman, a lefty who employs a 4seam, a change, a curve, and a slider. His pitches all have below average movement, his fastball is only 91mph, but he does a decent job of nibbling on the corners—Zimmerman is in the 89th percentile in chase rate, which helps keep his hard hit numbers relatively low at 39.5% despite his bad stuff.

Orioles bullpen has been pretty good this year, led by “We have Darren O’Day at home” Cesar Valdez. Valdez, who’s played all over the world before coming back to the Orioles last year at 35 years old, mixes in a lot of junk from a weird angle and gets good results.

From his last appearance vs the Yankees (where he went 2.1 innings, with just 2 hits, no walks, one unearned run, and got three strike outs to get the win):

He’s gone to using his change up 81.6% of the time, and that’s a 78 mile per hour pitch with 50.3 inches of drop. That change up has an average exit velocity of 88.5 mph and an average launch angle of 2 degrees, which helps get him his 61.5% ground ball rate. He’s only walking 2.6% of batters and hasn’t allowed a single barrel this season. He’ll mix in an 85mph sinker and a 77mph slider every now and then, but he’s just giving a different look than what anyone else is doing and it’s been successful for him.

Orioles Lineup

Baltimore hasn’t exactly been laying the lumber this year—they are 29th in OPS+ at 81, t26th in homers with 17, t28th in walks with 48, and have the sixth most strikeouts at 199.

They’ve had some good performers this year, especially Cedric Mullins, but their best hitters this season have been falling off over the past couple weeks.

Worrying for the O’s however is that the prospects that they’ve had called up this year have not been hitting well at all. They have four players on their current team that could be thought of being parts of the next good Orioles team: Ryan Mountcastle, Austin Hays, Anthony Santander, and Ryan McKenna. Of those four, McKenna (the lowest ranked prospect of the group) has the best OPS+ at 59 so far this season. The Orioles do have Adley Rutschman as one of the best prospects in baseball in a couple years to be their everyday catcher, but they don’t really have any top end prospects that should be up this season, and it could be a couple more really rough years in the Charm City.

Yankees Breakdown: Clint Frazier and Brett Gardner

Those are not exactly some good numbers by the potential starting LF for the Yankees. Clint is currently tied for the 9th worst player in fWAR this season at -0.3, and despite being in the 89th percentile in walk rate (16.1%) he’s been pretty bad at about everything else.

Clint has had 28 balls in play this season in 56 PA—those six balls in play are the only ones with at least a .500 xBA. Of his seven hits, three of them are bloop hits, three of them are infield grounders he beat out, and one was a sharp hit double along the line. He’s swinging at 65% of meatballs and at 53.8% of pitches in the zone. 

He’s taking too many pitches, and when he does get something to drive he’s either hitting it weakly (77.6mph average exit velocity) or hitting it straight up:

He’s also been awful at fielding with a -3 OAA, catching only 76% of the expected 87% of one to three star catches he should have made. He’s getting -4.6 feet of jump vs the average player, which is far and away the worst of any qualified outfielder (he’s over a foot worse than the second worst outfielder.)

Gardner unfortunately hasn’t done much better- despite the hot start, he has just one hit since April 11th and only two walks. His strikeout rate has continued to increase year over year (up to 25% now) and he’s not doing exactly putting the ball in play a lot either:

Luckily for Gardner’s sake, he’s at least been a good outfielder—0 OAA (which for the Yankees is actually good) and is making 2% more plays than expected. He’s lost some speed, but his reaction time has been really good to keep him as a viable defensive option.

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since im steeped in baseball hell anyway this is how i imagine the tenipuri boys as a baseball team

im gonna have to combine the teams to complete the 20-man roster needed for japanese highschool baseball.

TEAM 1 SEIGAKU + FUDOMINE

TEAM 2 rikkai + rokkaku

TEAM 3 shitenhouji + yamabuki

TEAM 4 higa + st. rudolph

DEFENSE

Pitcher - Ibu,  Ryoma, Fuji, Tezuka (ace)

Catcher - Oishi, Inui

1st Base - Tachibana, Uchimura

2nd Base - Kikumaru, Horio

3rd Base - Kaido, Arai

Shortstop - Kamio, Mori

Left Field - Momoshiro, Katsuo

Center Field - Kawamura, Ishida Tetsu

Right Field - Sakurai, Kachiro

OFFENSE (Batting Order)

1 - Kamio

2 - Kaido

3 - Sakurai

4 - Tachibana

5 - Kawamura

6 - Oishi

7 - Kikumaru

8 - Momoshiro

9 - Pitcher

Pitchers

Tezuka - Southpaw, Throws curveballs, sliders and a decent 4 seam fastball, about 140kph,  can use the corners very well. Plagued by injury in the elbow though because he used to pitch splitters and forkballs. Is the Ace but doesn’t play a lot.

Ibu Shinji - spams fastballs 140+kph, splitter, 12-6 curveball, 2FB

Ryoma - Southpaw, pitching style: sidearm. pitches Fastballs, sinkers, sliders, cutter, aggressive and more ace-like.

Fuji - Relief Pitcher, has decent command of strike zone, pitches 4seam fastball, max speed: 130kph, pitches changeups and screwballs. Pinch hitter

Captain: Tachibana

Vice Captain: Oishi and Inui

Ace: Tezuka

Catcher: Oishi, really caring catcher, works together with Inui to take care of the pitchers. Oishi is considered the best at getting runners out, which means he has the fastest cannon in-universe (just dont try to steal off him periodt). Good tactician.

Backup Catcher: Inui. is good at taking note of pitching forms and teaching the basics of baseball, oishi is a better tactician than him but not by much. He loves making health juices and helping players in their physio.

Kamio: Fastest Runner in the team, decent plate discipline, good at base stealing.

Kaido: best at plate stealing in the team

Tachibana: is 4th hole, has innate ball sense, acts out of instinct and one hell of a slugger also erghm tenimyu tachibana stage actor also acted as the captain and 4th hole of DnA protag team

Kawamura: slugger, will hit the ball as far as he can while shouting BURNING

compression shirts color: Blue

[recruitlings]

Tommy Walsh Baseball | 2021 RHP

[membergeorge]

4seam.

[milehighdad]

Packy Naughton(#70 LHP Cardinals 2022-).  IP1.0,H0,ER0.  2022 Stats(-7/17). 17G, W-L 0-2.1SV.  ERA3.68,WHIP1.05. 4seam(35%),Changeup(26%),Slider(20%),Sinker(19%). Angels(2021). St Louis Cardinals(44-37)-Philadelphia Phillies(42-38)(7/3/2022). Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia.　Fireworks for Independence Day. カージナルス2番手ピッチャー。 パッキー・ノートン（#68 左投 フィリーズ2022−）。1回被安打0自責点0。 2022年成績(7/17時点）、17試合、0勝2敗1セーブ。防御率3.68、WHIP1.05。球種：4シーム(35%)。チェンジアップ(26%)、スライダー(20%)、シンカー(19%)。 エンゼルス（2021）。

シチズンズ・バンク・パーク（2004−）。 セントルイス・カージナルス(44-37)-フィラデルフィア・フィリーズ（42−38）(2022年7月3日）。フィラデルフィア。独立記念日の花火。 MLBスタジアム巡り16番目。

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Hi just to just i am back on here after a while and i am happy to say that i have my first brother scan n cut cm700 machine and it is the best cutting and designing machine in the world and it is as easy as 1,2,3 to get it out of the box and start creating your own designs and more and with wifi you can design your designs on canvas as well which i love using my tablet to design my own ideas and designs and one more thing you can draw your own flower and cut them out on the scan n cut using 1/4seam allowance which to me is a great ideal in one amazing and world class machine more coming soon.

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Jackman（ジャックマン）JM5754 4seam Border T-Shirt 4シームボーダーTシャツをアップしました。

[milehighdad]

James Naile(#68 RHP Cardinals 2022-).  IP1.1,H1,ER0. 2K. 2022 Stats(-7/17). 3G, W-L 0-0. ERA0.00,WHIP0..43. MLB DEBUT(6/27/2022). Sinker(41%),Curveball(29%),Cutter(19%),4seam(7%). St Louis Cardinals(44-37)-Philadelphia Phillies(42-38)(7/3/2022). Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia.　Fireworks for Independence Day. カージナルス3番手ピッチャー。 ジェームズ・ネイリー（#68 フィリーズ2022−）。1.1回被安打1自責点0。2奪三振。 2022年成績(7/17時点）、3試合登板0勝0敗。防御率0.00、WHIP0.43。6月27日デビュー。2試合目の登板。球種：シンカー（41％）、カーブ（29%)、カッター(19%)、4シーム(7%)。 シチズンズ・バンク・パーク（2004−）。 セントルイス・カージナルス(44-37)-フィラデルフィア・フィリーズ（42−38）(2022年7月3日）。フィラデルフィア。独立記念日の花火。 MLBスタジアム巡り16番目。

[milehighdad]

Corey Knebel(#23 RHP Phillies 2022-).  IP1.0,0H,0ER0. 2K. 2022 Stats(-7/17). 37G, W-L 2-5,12SV. ERA3.03, WHIP1.34.　4seam(71%),Curveball(29%). Tigers(2014),Brewers(2015-2020),Dodgers(2021). All Star(2017). St Louis Cardinals(44-37)-Philadelphia Phillies(42-38)(7/3/2022). Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia.　Fireworks for Independence Day. フィリーズ3番手ピッチャー。 コーリー・クネイブル（#23 右投 フィリーズ2022−）。1回被安打0自責点02奪三振。 2022年成績(7/17時点), 37試合登板2勝5敗12セーブ。防御率3.03、WHIP1.34。 球種：4シーム（71％）、カーブ（29％）。 タイガース（2014）、ブルワーズ(2015-2020),ドジャース（2021）。 オールスター（2017）。76試合登板、11ホールド39セーブ。126奪三振。防御率1.78、WHIP1.16。 シチズンズ・バンク・パーク（2004−）。 セントルイス・カージナルス(44-37)-フィラデルフィア・フィリーズ（42−38）(2022年7月3日）。フィラデルフィア。独立記念日の花火。 MLBスタジアム巡り16番目。

[milehighdad]

Zack Wheeler (#45 Phillies 2020-).IP7.0,H4,ER0,SO5. 2022 Stats(-7/17).GS17,W-L 8-5. SO108. ERA2.89. WHIP1.08. 4seam(30%),Slider(29%),Sinker(17%),Curveball(11%). Mets(2013-14,2017-2019). Tommy Johns Surgery(2015-2016). St Louis Cardinals(44-37)-Philadelphia Phillies(42-38)(7/3/2022). Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia.　Fireworks for Independence Day.

ザック・ウィーラー(#45 右 フィリーズ2020-)。7回被安打4自責点0奪三振5。 2022成績（7月17日時点）、17先発、8勝5敗、奪三振108。防御率2.89。WHIP1.08。球種：4シーム(30%)、スライダー(29%)、シンカー(17%)、カーブ（11％）。 被安打4はすべてシングルヒット。複数投手で完封。 メッツ(2013-2019).2015年にトミージョン手術をして、2年間全休。2017年も17先発で3勝。2018年は開幕マイナーも4月中にメジャーに上がり、二桁勝利。オールスター（2021）。最多奪三振（2021）。 2021年オールスター(7/13/2021)。 シチズンズ・バンク・パーク（2004−）。 セントルイス・カージナルス(44-37)-フィラデルフィア・フィリーズ（42−38）(2022年7月3日）。フィラデルフィア。独立記念日の花火。

MLBスタジアム巡り16番目。

[milehighdad]

Adam Wainwright (#50 RHP Cardinals 2005-). L.  IP5.2,H8,ER4,SO5. 2022 Stats(-7/20), 18GS, W-L 6-7. ERA3:00,SO89, WHIP1.23.  Sinker(29%),Curveball(29%),Cutter(24%),4seam(10%),changeup(8%). Last MLB Season with Yadier Molina and Albert Pujols.  376GS, W-L 190-112. St Louis Cardinals(44-37)-Philadelphia Phillies(42-38)(7/3/2022). Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia.　Fireworks for Independence Day. アダム・ウェインライト(#50 右 カージナルス 2005-)。通算374試合目の先発。敗戦投手（通算111敗目）。5回2/3、被安打8、2被本塁打、自責点4、奪三振5。球種：シンカー（29％）、カーブ（29％）、カッター（24％）、4シーム（10％）、チェンジアップ（8％）。次の先発（7/8/2022 ブッシュ・スタジアム）では同じカード（対フィリーズ)＋同じ先発投手（ザック・ウィラー）で、敗戦投手になったものの完投してる（0−2 9回被本塁打2自責点2）。

ヤディアー・モリーナ、アルバート・プホルスと2022年のシーズンで引退宣言。8月で41歳。MLB17シーズン目、376試合先発190勝。2093奪三振。 最多勝利2回(2009.2013)、シルバースラッガー賞（2017）、ゴールドグラブ賞2回（2009,2013）、ロベルト・クレメンテ賞（2020）。オールスター3回（2010,2013,2014）。ワールドシリーズ優勝（2006）2006年は中継ぎとして61試合に登板（先発0）17ホールド、3セーブ。抑えのイズリングハウンゼンが9月に故障、プレイオフ、ワールドシリーズでは抑えとしてワールドシリーズ優勝に貢献。2011年優勝時は手術のため離脱。

2007年以降のシーズンはほぼすべて先発登板（361試合中358試合先発）。 先発登板の予定が一日ずれたおかげで、ウェインライトの投球見られた。モリーナ（怪我）とプホルスは出場しなかった。 シチズンズ・バンク・パーク（2004−）。 セントルイス・カージナルス(44-37)-フィラデルフィア・フィリーズ（42−38）(2022年7月3日）。フィラデルフィア。独立記念日の花火。 MLBスタジアム巡り16番目。

[milehighdad]

Brett Martin (#59 RHP Rangers 2019-).IP1.0,H1,BB1,ER0,K2. 2022 Stats(-7/17).  35G,W-L 0-5.3SV.  ERA2.61,WHIP 1.19. Curve(41%),Sinker(29%),Slider(18%)4seam(12%). Texas Rangers(36-39)-New York Mets(48-29)(7/1/2022). Citi Field. Queens, New York. First visit since 22 years ago. (8/19/1997 shea studium). レンジャーズ4番手投手。 ブレット・マーティン（＃59 右 レンジャーズ2019-)。1回、被安打1、四球1、自責点0、奪三振2。 2021年成績（7月17日時点）35試合登板0勝5敗3セーブ。防御率2.61。WHIP1.19。 球種：カーブ(41%),シンカー(29%),スライダー(18%)4シーム(12%)。 テキサス・レンジャーズ(36-39)対ニューヨーク・メッツ(48-29)(2022年7月1日）。シティ・フィールド。クイーンズ、ニューヨーク。 MLBスタジアム巡り15番目。25年ぶりのメッツ本拠地観戦。ドジャース対メッツ(1997年8月19日)。当時はシェイ・スタジアム（1964−2009）。Bre