Joey Gallo: baseball or homerun derby?

[Cmount76]

For the first time in MLB history, there were more strikeouts than hits. Sabermetrics, launch angles, "specialty" pitchers, pitch counts, defensive shifts, etc. have brought us to this point.

I honestly believe the pendulum will swing back. To answer your question - yes; it is headed in that direction, but only temporarily. Baseball will be back!

Originally Posted by ls7plus

Is Joey Gallo playing baseball, or a variation of homerun derby? Is this the direction the game should be headed in? Thoughts and opinions as you please.

Best to all,

Larry

[homerunderby]

Looks like Dave Kingman and Rob Deer were ahead of their time.

[steve B]

KIngman was who I thought of. He was in that sort of range several times.

[clydepepper]

All I know is that I would pay to see him in batting practice.

These days, everyone can hit home runs, but not like he does.

[ls7plus]

It would be interesting to know (and it can be calculated) how many runs he is giving up for his team by striking out with a man on third and less than two out. Obviously, putting the ball in play--especially to the outfield, as Nolan Arenado did yesterday against the Brewers to tie the game (at least for the moment)--carries considerable value. IMHO, such missed opportunities equating to runs lost for one's team should be calculated and weighed in with the other modern sabermetric stats.

Interesting responses,

Larry

[ALR-bishop]

Every time I see this thread I think of Jerry Callo

[vintagewhitesox]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Every time I see this thread I think of Jerry Callo

His name was in all the papers last week.

he's dead!