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sepdet · 3 years ago

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i go to bmc and happening upon your reblog about using the bi-co's VAX for fanfiction/rp was a hilarious surprise

Hello my dear! Yes, I tagged that hoping to amuse some sister Mawrtyrs across the miles.

The delightful thing is that back then, since fandom often formed in small local groups much like regional bitnets and usenet groups, many homegrown, unique forms of proto-fanfic-before-we-had-a-term-for-it could develop.

In our case, since of course the nerds of Bryn Mawr would be the ones keeping the VAX running, someone had set up a BBS on the VAX's system called Starbucket. As you can guess from the name, it was somewhat tongue in cheek. Individual posts were individual chapters of stories — one had to seek membership to be allowed to post — and then members could comment.

Your main character of your own stories was a self-insert OC Time Lord from Doctor Who. Your traveling companions could be any character who had died in their own timeline, so that if you took them away they wouldn't be missed. (This rule was sometimes bent, because the members of Queen were beloved.) And then, since you had a time machine, you could travel to any multiverse— crossovers ahoy! And a lot of parodies. Companions ranged from Kerr Avon of Blake's 7 to Wolfriders from Elfquest to Roy Fokker from Robotech. Mine were Cally from Blake's 7 and Kassandra of Troy.

You were allowed to write other people's characters, since BBS members mostly knew each other, and it was kind of like gift fic to give each other's characters adventures. (Or killed them off in dramatic ways, because screw continuity. The best story ever was Phantom of the Starbucket, in which the Phantom — this was when the broadway musical first hit — was bumping off everyone's characters, each in a poetically appropriate/hilarious way. I assume Freddie Mercury was the angel of music, although I can't remember now.)

I realized later that Starbucket had originally been set up as a text version of the 80s Doctor Who tabletop rpg in which everyone plays a member of the Celestial Intervention Agency. (In universe, Starbucket was a CIA space station home base where all our TARDISes docked.) But by the time I joined the bbs, the original mission had largely been forgotten, and a lot of stories were crossover contrivances to bring about various characters "boinking" one another. Ah, the quaint days of euphemism-rated fanfic.

Yeah. Anyway. Typical college humor. Good times. Sorry to go off in Anecdote Mode, except not sorry. I hope you're having a wonderful time and finding great nerd friends to offset the stress of academics and *waves had at current events.* Drink deep of Bryn Mawr, because it's marvelous, but you don't need ME to tell you that. Dapper cosplay, by the way!

And if you should happen down that staircase descending into the Dungeon basement of Pembroke East (it's not that exciting, it's just that groups of friends used to be able to bid on undesirable blocks of rooms), the little plaque on the windowsill halfway down proclaiming it the domain of the "Rampaging Anarchist Horde, Renaissance Faire, and Floating Tea Party" commemorates my merry band. Rumors of a sex dungeon or satanic cult were greatly exaggerated. The only naughty thing we were doing down there, apart from the inevitable shacking up after a couple of us figured out we were queer, was keeping a flagrant violation of the housing code. His name was Vasdru, and he was a very sweet cat.

#bryn mawr college #insert another quarter to make the old fan spout more rambling anecdotes that probably amuse herself and her peers more rhan you

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rainwolfheart · 4 years ago

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i've been playing lovelink for a few days and i have reviews

Adam/Dominic - total sweetheart. lil basic but I am absolutely spending gems on him. 9/10

Aesha/Samantha - I wanted to like her but I can't deal with the cringe. and mc being so oblivious to game culture. also I am not into the sexy videogame outfits thing. 3/10

Albert/Jonathan - no thanks I don't respect the troops. might match with Albert if I'm desperate to farm gems. 1/10

Alex/Calum - too forward, wish there were more "cool your jets bro" options like there are with Blake/Keanu. also just doesn't feel realistic. "couldn't afford canvas so I painted on myself"??? you can buy canvas at the dollar store, it's good paint that's expensive. try harder. 3/10

Alice/Eve - matched with Eve before I reset and I want her back. didn't get far enough to really get to know her tho. 7/10

Ana/Milena/Ruby - I'm not into the "born sexy yesterday and you're the only human she knows" thing. I think she's super sweet and interesting and I want to help her, but I want her to make real friends and do stuff without mc! the obsession makes me uncomfortable. 3/10

Angel/Emmalyn - super sweet but I want to have nuanced animal rights/veganism conversations with her every time 😬 5/10

Antoine/Noah - one of the only pairs who's never come up! I want to match with Noah and get dog pictures. 5/10

Austin/Damien - ehh could take it or leave it. probably gonna match with Austin to farm gems. maybe I'll be surprised. 2/10

Blake/Keanu - kinda enjoying it. I matched with Blake first with a more femme mc in mind and I was kinda creeped out, but after I reset I matched with Keanu with a more masc mc and I'm into it. he's cuter. wish his pics were actually covered in ink tho?? he's got a sleeve and like 2 big pieces, he's not even the character with the most lmao. 5/10

Charlie/Jake/Zayn - ngl Charlie was one of the reasons I reset. I had already matched with Zayn but I found out Charlie is probably trans and I couldn't not. honestly not super into the storyline, as a theatre major who is a terrible actor, but I can live with it. 6/10

Clementine/Grace - matched with Grace before I reset, gonna go for Clementine tho. Grace has too many "sexy nerd halloween costume" vibes for me. Clementine has the same name as my cat but at least she's less cringe. 4/10

Cpt. Muffin - BEST MATCH. BRING HIM BACK. 11/10.

Dahlia/Rose - I think Dahlia is the most like someone I'd date irl she's too fucking cute. I have spent gems on every single option so far. I am buying an engagement ring and all the snacks as we speak. 10/10.

Daniel/Ryan - matched with Daniel before I reset and probs will again. kept rolling my eyes at his story tho. you can't just breach your NDAs to a random person on a dating app!! 4/10

Didier/Mamoru - waiting patiently for Mamoru.... 5/10

Dr. Vile - I'm a lil disappointed he greyed out so early. I'm having fun with the story but not sold yet. 6/10

Eveline/Jade - had Eveline before I reset and I want her back!!!! possibly my fave after Dahlia and Adam. also the kind of person I'd be into irl. 9/10

Garrett/Rory - pls match with me Garrett. 8/10

Hazel - ??? 4/10

Hugo/Marco - unpopular opinion but I really really dislike him. he's constantly flirting with someone behind Sally's back, I'd call that cheating, and yet you can never be upfront with him. I choose the friendliest options every time and yet he persists. 1/10

Jaden/Skylar - everyone's obsessed with Skylar and I haven't found him yet. curious to see what the hype is about. 5/10

Jamie/Seth - I've heard so little about these two. curious but only vaguely. 5/10

Jasmin/Kayla - pleasantly surprised by how much I like her? I feel like both their profiles don't reflect how they are in conversations at all. wish she and mc weren't such dumbasses tho. 5/10

Julien/William - match with me pls Julien. 6/10

Liam/Min-Jae - matched with Min-Jae briefly before I reset and I'm curious about his story, not sold yet. I'm not into kpop so it's interesting for mc to also be an outsider. 5/10

Michael/Sam - you are a child!!! I don't want to match with them tbh. 1/10

Nicholas - I like the concept but because mc keeps worrying he's pranking them, he sometimes reminds me of those people who are really into historical rp to the point where they pretend to not understand modern life. that da Vinci pic is hilarious. I wish you had the option to talk about being queer in the 18th century with him!! 6/10

Nick - ??? 4/10

Oliver/Stefan - no. 1/10

Raphael/Wyatt - Wyatt looks too much like Shaggy for me 😂 curious to talk to Raphael tho. 4/10

Sage/Vitoria - big titty goth gf. love her. she's not a werewolf yet in my game but I am waiting respectfully. also wish mc wasn't such an asshole after she ditches the first date. 8/10

Sheng/Tomas - idk enough. curious. 4/10

Theo - so mad I missed them. come back. be queer with me. 7/10

Tiros - as long as you don't think too much about how centaur sex works he is so much fun. sexy constantly shirtless man lost on a beach trying to reclaim his honour. sign me up. 6/10

#lovelink #long post

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alyssalenko · 3 years ago

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30 Questions

I was tagged by @puppypopcornpizza and @slothssassin

1. Name/Nickname: Aidan/Angel. I don't really see the ones who gave me my other ones so I don't think they count anymore.

2. Star Sign: Scorpio

3. Height: 5'2"

4. Birthday: November 18th

5. Favourite Bands: Nickelback, Maroon 5, Plain White T's, Big Time Rush, Forever in Your Mind, LMNT, O.A.R., All-American Rejects, Train Yellowcard, Switchfoot, Snow Patrol, The Corrs, Abba, All-Star Weekend, Capra, Jonas Brothers and gosh so many others I can't think of off the top of my head

6. Time: 2:59 PM

7. Favourite Solo Artists: Luke Bryan, Billy Currington, Samantha Mumba, Dustin Lynch, Old Dominion, Blake Shelton, Michael Bublé, Natasha Bedingfield and so many more I can't put my finger on right now (and if I did, we'd be here all day)

8. Song stuck in your head: The Lords of the Sea from Galavant

9. Last Movie you watched: Gunpowder Milkshake

10. Dream Trip: Iceland and Disneyland (I've never been)

11. Last Show: Ghost Whisperer--my sis and I are doing a rewatch since Hulu put it back up

12. When I created this Blog: December 2012 my sister made it for me though I didn't really use it until February 2013 when I was live blogging the Superbowl

13. What I Post: Whatever tickles my fancy at the moment. A hyperfixation, fandom things like art and fic, screenshots, tag games, my own writing, my own edits/photo manips, my own commisions, fashion, something funny--my blog is a clusterfuck.

14. Last Thing I Googled: Female N7 Armor Template--it's my tenth year going to ECCC and I decided to do Shep Armor

15. Other Blogs: I have 2 RP blogs my sister made for me, but I am never really on them. This is really my one and only--which is why it is a mess of everything.

16. Do I Get Asks: Not as often as I would like but I love them and wish I got more

17. Why I Chose My URL: When I read Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars I loved that he spelled Alice 'A-L-Y-S-S' and so when I created my first Shepard without my sister her name was Alyss. I fell in love with Kaidan and dreamed up their happy ending--they got married and she became Alyss Alenko. XD

18. Following: 604 but I am trimming it down slowly

19. Followers: 929...not sure how you all got here or why you stayed through my bullshit but I love you!

20. Average Hours of Sleep: 5-7 if I'm lucky

21. Lucky Number: 3 and 9

22. Instruments: Oboe

23. What Am I Wearing: Blue nightgown with white lace on the bodice--which I seem to be wearing every time I decide to do this questionnaire XD

24. Dream Job: There was a time I would say Artist or Fashion Designer, but I am always so tired lately that I just want to be an heiress (or rich widow)

25. Favourite Food: Fettuccine Chicken Alfredo

26. Tea or Coffee: Tea. I hate coffee

27. Nationality: American

28. Favourite Song: I will never choose between Sunday Morning by Maroon 5 and Storybook Love by Mark Knopfler

29. Last Book I Read: Finished? Rapture by Skye Jordan--Book 8 of the Renegades Romance Novels Series. Working on currently? Fierce Cowboy Wolf--The 4th installment in the Cowboy Werewolf Romance Novel series I love wholeheartedly.

30. Top 3 Fictional Universes I Would Live In: If I have to live in them then probably Mass Effect, Style Savvy: Trendsetters, or Uncharted

Come play my lovelies! Anyone who sees this and wants to play, consider yourselves tagged!

#30 questions tag #get to know me #about me #my tags #just catching up #from the desk of alyssalenko #alyssalenko original

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one-saxon-holmes · 5 years ago

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Saxon himself hid behind his menu, thinking. He didnt want to pressure Ren to drink, both for the obvious ethical qualms, and because it would look suspicious. Then something occurred to him. He placed his menu down and looked at Ren.

"So, have you heard anything from team RWBY? After the fall Blake and I kept in some contact- really I found her, too few belladonas and even fewer are faunus. But these last few weeks? Nothing."

Saxon had been concerned to say the least. He knew perfectly well Blake was as powerful as she was beautiful, but her confidence was easily broken. And after the fall she had been rather anxious. And anxious is not a good thing in a politically fractured world where the biggest threat was probably the monsters summoned with negative emotions.

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“Mantle and Atlas law are different than Vale. Age 18 or hunting license. Which you meet both requirements if I recall.”

Saxon gestured for Ren to follow him, and led him to the pub, ‘Brother’s Den,’ it was a small thing, with purple and gold glass panes on the reddish brown doors. The interior of it was much the same, with purple booths on one side and gold on the other.

Saxon sat at a purple booth and said, “take your time with your orders, there’s no rush. Though I’d personally recommend the Menagerie Salmon.”

“Well that’s convenient.” Ren said. “Either way, I don’t have any desire to drink.” He followed after Saxon with no other comments, looking at the pub that he had somehow managed to pass by without noticing. But it wasn’t that surprising-he hadn’t come out here looking for bars to drink in, after all. The design was something to be admired, though, which Ren did as they entered the bar and sat in a purple booth.

“I’ll have a look, certainly, although I will admit I’m not very hungry.” He said as he reached for a menu and opened it, scanning the items.

#rwby volume 7 spoilers #saxon #lie ren #blake belladonna #rwby roleplay #rwby rp #rwby oc #rwby

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blakebow · 5 years ago

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Blake and Sun as Deities:☀️ God of the Sun and Goddess of the Moon 🌙

another edit I spent an ridiculous amount of time on (7 hours nonstop), inspired by a RP thread I’ve been involved in on Discord.

enjoy!

#RWBY #Blake x Sun #Blake Belladonna x Sun Wukong #Wudonna #Eclipse #Blake Belladonna #Sun Wukong #my edit #au edit

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pages-and-words-archive · 3 years ago

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You can learn a lot about someone based on their music.

Put your favorite playlist or music player on shuffle and list the first 10 songs then tag up to ten people! No skipping! (or maybe some skipping. I’m not your dad, do what feels right)

Tagged by: @xa-silent-voicex

1. There’s a Place for Us - BYU Noteworthy

2. The Way I Do - Bishop Briggs

3. King of New York - Newsies

4. Monster Among Men - 5 Seconds of Summer

5. Boys ‘Round Here - Blake Shelton

6. Diamonds - Rihanna

7. Remember - Passion

8. Masterpiece - Jessie J

9. The Dark - Beth Crowley

10. Long Story Short - Taylor Swift

Tagging: @all-the-muses @everdetermined @multibcrn @multimuse-rp @thelightxwithin and anyone else who wants to do it!

#*snorts*#i think what we learned here is that i have something in every genre under the sun #shockingly none of my plethora of kpop showed up #but believe me #it's there #about the mun

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insidethegiftbasket · 4 years ago

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Yankees (18-16) at Rays (19-17)

Tuesday – 7:10pm on YES and ESPN: Jordan Montgomery (1-1, 4.41 ERA) vs Luis Patino (1-0, 1.17 ERA)

Wednesday – 7:10 on YES: Gerrit Cole (4-1, 1.61 ERA) vs TBA, most likely Yarbrough for the bulk innings (2-3, 4.58 ERA)

Thursday – 7:10 on YES and MLBN: Jameson Taillon (1-2, 5.02 ERA) vs TBA, most likely Rich Hill (1-1, 5.17 ERA)

Rays Injury Report (since we last played them)

RP Pete Fairbanks – activated off IL on May 5th

RP Collin McHugh – activated off IL on May 5th

1b Ji-Man Choi – finishing rehabbing injured knee, expected to be activated for series vs Yankees

RP Chris Mazza – placed on 10 Day IL due to shoulder inflammation, no timetable for return

SP Michael Wacha – placed on 10 Day IL due to hamstring strain, no timetable for return

RP Diego Castillo – placed on 10 Day IL due to strained groin, no timetable for return

C Francisco Meijia – placed on 10 Day IL due to strained oblique, no timetable for return

OF Kevin Kiermaier – placed on 10 Day IL due to sprained wrist, no timetable for return

Rays Pitching

The good news for this series is that the Yankees avoid Glasnow, who’s still pitching at an All Star level. The bad news? The Rays, despite having seven relievers on the IL right now along with three starting pitchers, are still able to put out multiple elite relievers. Obviously guys like Fairbanks, Strickland, Thompson, and Kittredge have put up nice seasons in the past, but they’ve also started to use some of their top end prospects like Shane McClanahan out of the pen too with a ton of success.

McClanahan, a consensus Top 100 prospect in baseball, is a lefty who made his first career MLB appearance vs the Yankees in the ALDS last season, and mixes a sweeping slider with 33 inches of drop and 4.4 inches of horizontal break (both significantly above average) with a 99mph four seamer with 52% more horizontal break than average.

The slider is legit—in 12 at bats ending with the pitch, opposing batters have struck out eight times and only gotten one hit. The fastball however is a different story—despite having a lot of life to it, he’s leaving it smack dab in the middle of the zone and people are teeing off on it to a tune of a .506 xSLG.

The other main new piece the Rays have been trotting out is Tuesday’s starting pitcher Luis Patino. He was MLB Pipeline’s #23 prospect in 2020 when he was with the San Diego Padres organization, and was one of the main pieces of the Blake Snell deal this past winter. His star started to shine a bit less after a messy 2020 season in San Diego, as he had a real trouble with throwing strikes (16.5% walk rate was in the second percentile) and was miserable when even or behind in the count (opposing batters had a .845 OPS when ahead in the count, a 1.118 OPS when even in the count, and just a .495 OPS when behind.)

I saw him pitch when he was with Single-A Fort Wayne, and you could tell then that he had the potential to be truly special. He was just 18 years old, nearly four years younger than the average Midwest League player, but his stuff is just electric- he has a fastball that sits in the mid 90’s and lasts throughout the whole game, but can touch 100mph. It doesn’t have a ton of movement to it, but it does have a ton of spin (89th percentile in fastball spin rate in 2020, to go along with 94th percentile in fastball velocity.) The go to out pitch however is a disgusting slider- only 27.1 inches of drop (20% less than average) but it gets nearly double the average horizontal break on it. The slider has a 45.5% whiff rate this season and has gotten 8 strikeouts in 14 at bats. More importantly, he’s started throwing strikes more:

Those are his 2020 pitch charts, where he was really all over the place and had to use his change up more often (more on that in a second).

Compared to his 2021 pitch chart, where everything is a lot tighter and he’s thrown the slider for strikes.

He also has a change up, which is 88mph with a low spin rate and low movement, and he uses that almost exclusively against lefties—it’s really the pitch he needs to improve upon if he wants to live up to his billing as a top end starting pitcher, but despite not really having the underlying numbers to back it up, it has been successful so far in his MLB career. In his limited MLB career so far, he actually has reverse splits (righties are slashing .259/.368/.414 and lefties .158/.273/.536), but in his last MILB season righties slashed .163/.259/.220 compared to lefties slashing .262/.308/.443. I’d be willing to bet that his reverse splits right now are nearly purely small sample sizes and that things will go back to normal quickly.

Rays Hitting

Tampa has been improving their offensive numbers, and are up to a 99 OPS+ as a team so far this season (tied for 13th in baseball.) Getting Choi back helps, as it can for Tsutsugo out of the lineup more often as his 38 OPS+ is dragging down the Rays offense drastically—Tampa has the 5th worst OPS out of the DH position. Ideally, they’d be able to play Meadows there more often, but Kiermaier’s injury takes away his Gold Glove level defense and forces Tampa to play Meadows’ Garbage Glove level defense in LF.

Tampa has been getting good production from the majority of their team however—Zunino has doubled his OPS+ from last year so far and Diaz, Wendle, Meadows, and Arozarena are right where you’d expect them to be in the heart of the order. Adames has been the weak link so far of the every day guys, which is not a place you want to be in when Wander Franco, the consensus top prospect in baseball, is currently crushing the ball in AAA.

Yankees Focus On: Starting Pitchers

Because we’ve faced Tampa twice in the last month already, I figured it’d be a little better to spend more time breaking down our own starters for this series.

First up—Jordan Montgomery: if you want to look at some upside with Gumby, you can point to the fact that he has really battled back from some lousy starts and moments that he just didn’t have it this season. If you want some downside with Gumby, there’s been a lot of those moments. Gumby has a 6.00 ERA in the first inning this season, batters are slashing a very high .364/.417/.871 when leading off an inning, and against non-Orioles teams he’s been a mess:

He’s had miserable platoon splits—lefties are slashing .138/.219/.138 with 10 Ks and 1 BB in 32 PA, but righties are slashing .272/.323/.489 with 18 Ks and 7 BBs in 100 PA. His home/road splits are similar:

Now it’s easy to say “oh it’s been a month, give it some time” with Gumby, and with some of the other pitchers on the team I’d agree, but unfortunately all his career numbers are similar—significantly a different pitcher at home, vs lousy teams, and against lefties than he is on the road, vs winning teams, or against righties. One of the biggest issues he’s running into is that he just really struggles against the best of the best:

It’s hard to trust Gumby when he’s on the mound because of all this—he’s reached 90 pitches in a game just twice in the last two seasons and pitched into the 7th just once (he was pulled after letting the leadoff hitter on in the 7th inning this season against Tampa).

His underlying numbers aren’t that great either—he’s still not walking guys (just a 6.1% BB rate) but he doesn’t get strikeouts and allows a lot of hard contact. Last year he was in the 95th percentile in average exit velocity, this year he’s in the 33rd percentile, mainly because his sinker and his cutter suck.

Those are two pitches with not a lot of movement to them and not a lot of speed to them that are being left in very hittable places for hitters—here’s a zone chart for SLG and xSLG for righties against Gumby:

Not great! He’s leaving those cutters and sinkers all over up in the zone and guys are destroying those pitches.

That being said, the curveball has been elite offerings from him this season: curveball has a .071 SLG and .192 xSLG and is actually his most used pitch at 23.7% of the time (although he does throw a variation of his fastball over 50% of the time.) His change up has gotten good results- right now it has a decent .314 wOBA (although it does have a much higher .440 xWOBA, and if it starts to perform like that then he’s really in trouble.)

At this point I’m not writing Gumby off, he did have a really nice 2017 after all, but he’s now three years removed from Tommy John surgery and the results just have not been there.

In much more positive news, Gerrit Cole is really freaking good at baseball.

Those are his numbers in his Yankee career, and he’s been really worth every penny of the contract so far.

Maybe the most insane thing that Cole’s done this year is put up a 40.2 K% and a 1.8 BB%: the only two SP with a higher difference are Jacob deGrom and Corbin Burnes, who both have roughly a 45% difference between their K rate and BB rate. He’s also drastically cut his HR/FB% down, last year 18.7% of his fly balls left the yard, this year it’s down to 7%. He gave up 14 homers in 73 innings last season, this year he’s given up three in 44.2 innings.

Obviously the big change Cole made this season, as YES mentions every time he steps out on the mound, is that he has embraced the Matt Blake Change Up Factory approach, and to good measure. Last season he threw a change up 5.6% of the time, almost entirely against lefties and to the tune of a .268 wOBA. This year that number is up to 15.1% of the time, it’s used against righties and lefties, and it has a .041 wOBA thanks to one hit against it in 31 PA. His change up is the third best change up in baseball in run value so far this year, only behind John Means and Ian Anderson. He also has the 17th best four seam fastball in run value, and those two pitches play off each other perfectly:

That is excellent tunneling for two pitches with similar movement but a 10mph difference to them—Cole’s change up actually drops significantly less than the average change up and has similar horizontal movement to his four seamer, so it’s really hard to tell the difference in the two pitches. Here’s a pitch chart from his start against Detroit, with four seamers in red and change ups in green:

He’s able to keep the fastballs up in the zone and use his change up as essentially a low fastball, but with a 10mph hitters are just really struggling to identify it and do anything with it.

Starting the final game of the series is Jameson Taillon, who’s really been improving his last couple times out. It’s interesting with Jamo that he’s had Gary behind the plate for every one of his starts so far, and also very interesting in that his expected stats are all significantly better than his actual stats: he’s given up seven homers already this season, but if it was park adjusted he’d be expected to give up five homers. His expected ERA is nearly two runs less than his actual ERA. What he’s running into, and why I am not worried about Jamo long term, is this:

To me that screams “this dude hasn’t pitched in two years and is just building up his stamina” more than anything. He’s also been significantly better with an extra day or two of rest, and between him, Kluber, and Severino once he returns from injury, I can definitely see the Yankees try to get them all extra rest when possible.

His slider has easily been his best pitch on the season—.205 wOBA against (.301 xwOBA) with a high spin rate and sitting at 87mph. He’s used mostly that and his four seamer, which has a lot better expected numbers than actual numbers—xSLG of .430 as opposed to actual SLG of .612. That said, when your chart looks like this, it’s easy to see why his SLG is higher than it should be:

High fastballs are good, but he’s allowing too many high fastballs to be way out of the zone, and they are all really high up. Five of his seven homers are off the 4 seamer, which is totally believable when you look at how his pitches are winding up. A little more time and a little more control can fix that problem however, and I don’t think it’s going to be too long before we see Jamo living up to his potential.

#Yankees #Rays #New York Yankees #Tampa Bay Rays #Series Preview #Gerrit Cole #Jordan Montgomery #Jameson Taillon #Ji-Man Choi #Stop the Trop #Drop the Trop #Flop the Trop #Crop the Trop

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