movement is most important yes. and placement. you have to challenge the inside of the plate. doesnt matter the speed. also changing (eye levels) with pitches . movement is apart of moving the eyes.

Dick mountain may be the only one working hard out there, but it’s a long game

Dick Mountain's might not be a generational talent, but he lasted longer than most. Don't sleep on Dick Mountain

@@bd1zzle god damn bro wrote the bible

I tried to tell coach but naw rather me as bullpen catcher and right field where 2 pop flies hit the sun and hit me right in the face causing me to instantly bleed from my nose and bruises around my cheeks. Tried to say I can throw good enough for outs but never believed in me. I only pinched hit and walked or basically *lean and hbp to reach 1st and more likely I was usually replaced with a pinch runner and they would continue the games and I’d be back in the bullpen. Such BS I thought when I was a freshman in high school but then again 2 people from my high school (Elsinore high school home of the tigers, Lake Elsinore, CA) go on and pitch in the MLB and being both pitchers and both drafted and played for the Angels back in like ~2010-2014 and ended their career assuming they just sucked hahaha but my arm was great enough to throw from the fence to first fence ALMOST to 2nd and all the way home but needed a cut off man without a doubt. I’m wasn’t like bo Jackson or Vlad sr. but coach had me bat a few times a game just to reach base because I struck out or just infield throw outs to first so I just started to almost stop swinging and just *lean into the pitch and BAM on first, time and then jogging to the dugout for catcher gear and hit the bullpen while I got the new player to replace me finally. Better overall. I sucked at defense but had enough aggression to throw the ball hard and far from how my mom’s ex boyfriend treated me for 10 years so I thought I’d be better at pitching but nope got cut sophomore year and joined tennis and made varsity jr. year and finished off senior year at tennis with only 1 angry outburst where I slammed my racket on the ground and bent the hell out of it and had to finish my match with the 2nd guy and BAM my best friend said here’s my extra racket and really got great at tennis. My serves and all being with my best friend teaching me more on slow serves and slowly tried to keep my serve look the same every times that was rough but worked for the best

Then why don’t you pull it from MLB and make your own edits instead of stealing someone else’s if it’s so easy? Don’t be so lazy and people won’t call you out on it.

I'm focused on my other channel right now. I just did a video about the Rangers and I upload shorts once or twice a week there. www.youtube.com/@WhatHappenedtoBaseball

With the fences moving in he might have a chance

Alas that wasn’t it. I said something wrong at one point in the video and then I said the corrected thing a minute later

You called the dodgers the best team in baseball when it is in fact the seattle mariners

I went an entire summer season of little league without striking out, I was really good at just smacking the ball forward whether it got fielded or not. I don't think I had much discipline though 😭

I was only slightly better myself… I’m pretty sure I hit like .220 with absolutely no power, but I walked so much my coach would hit me leadoff and then I’d just walk and steal second at the same time because almost every catcher had throwing issues

Bro who??

Just like your team collapse during the REGULAR season?

Bro I’m a Braves fan

Much appreciated! Hope you stick around!

@@theleftycatcher Totally. What SD did to the Mets is playoff baseball. Mad Max, among the best in the game, has the first 4 HR/7 Run start in the postseason since 1939. Nothing is for certain, but this format mathematically maximizes the odds of the largest number of top team matchups throughout the playoffs.

I guess another thing is that MLB can guarantee a matchup like Dodgers/Giants (or at least almost - the Padres absolutely beat down the Mets last night).

@@theleftycatcher For sure. But that is more likely to happen in this format. As you pointed out, last year the 106 win Dodgers were the wild card team behind the 107 win Giants. Hard to declare either the “best”. One or the other would likely get to the LCS after baseball first milked that matchup, and then most probably face the #2 seed in the LCS as they had the easier path. It’s because the top wild card team is frequently one of the very best that this works so well for MLB.

BTW: since the creator is a Braves fan nobody needs to tell him about baseball playoffs and the fluky nature of small sample sizes in the sport. The 90s Braves were these Dodgers.

This is actually a great perspective. I don’t think the league would ever admit to that, but without reseeding, winning the #1 just isn’t worth it. I hadn’t thought about it from a sheer marketing standpoint, in that the best would play in earlier rounds. But also, wouldn’t MLB prefer to have the best teams play in the LCS, when coverage can be more focused?

They are from most people.

@Ray Barrios, yeah that was the hypothetical. The Dodgers will actually play either the Mets or the Padres

@@theleftycatcher My bad. That 2nd graphic is hypothetical

@@theleftycatcher Based on the graphic you put put, the dodgers will be facing either the 3rd or 6th seed in the divisional series, AND THEN, they'll face the 100 win braves/mets. I actually like dodgers' seeding position.

The Dodgers have a harder path to get through than the Astros or the 2nd NL team. Even if your team won 115 games, would you rather face two 90 win-teams or two 100 win teams to get to the WS?

@@theleftycatcher Yeah I have no clue as to your age, and while the 2 division setup was ok at times, it did create it's bit of controversy as well. It was probably fine at first, but over the years with expansion Royals, Expos, Padres, and Seattle Pilots who became the Milwaukee Brewers after only 1 year all came in 1969. Then in 1977, the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays joined the fray, and then in 1993 Colorado Rockies and the Florida Marlins broke the camels back as the divisions became too crowded, things were getting worse, and teams were getting cheated. We haven't even made it to the D'back and Rays yet who were added in 1998, but within a 30 year period 10 more teams joined major league baseball (The size of the Central division), which is something to think about.

I think it's pretty clear that I was born after 93 (you'd really have to be born around 83 to have any real opinions on the 2 division setup). I'm not suggesting (nor is And That's Baseball) to revert back to how many teams made the playoffs pre-94. It's simply trying to not make it where the central isn't such a weak division (the AL and NL have been incredibly weak for a half decade now)

@@theleftycatcher Yeah that makes sense, they're such a letdown that only 3 of the last 11 World Series winners came from the Central, and only 7 of the 22 teams in the World Series during that time came from the Central as well. Come on man, almost 32% of the Central teams over that time span played in the World Series, and you want to abolish the division. You must have been born after 1993, because 2 divisions per league didn't work pre 1994, and it's the reason why they added the Central after the 1993 season with the Braves and the Giants both winning over 100 and hailing from the same division, that's why they made the change.

Eliminating the Central division would be interesting, mostly cause they’re usually such a letdown compared to the East and West, but I’m also just for a free-for-all NBA style where you just have the top 6 teams from each league in, regardless of division