Yep. I saw that and told Mrs Mathguy to find me that bad boy. I could not have done it without you. Credit where credit is due!

I feel confident in predicting something like this will likely never happen again with how quickly pitchers good the hook these days.

It's weird to hear Joe Buck doing color commentary

I hope that last night is a sign of things to come, not just for the team but for Javier as well. Dude was nails

If not I guess that means they'll have to be on YouTube the rest of the season and no more tv for games.

Looking at the metrics for Javier - here is where he's improving.

Velo up ~1 mpg on the heater & 2.5 mpg on the slider

His spin is similar to last year except for his curve. It's up and he's going to it much more.

He's attacking righties with high heat and then back door sliders.

He's attacking lefties with high heat away and back foot curves.

Ks are way up, BBs are down.

The only thing he doesn't have working for him is when he's been hit this year, it's been hard significantly more than last year.

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Looking at the metrics for Javier - here is where he's improving.

Velo up ~1 mpg on the heater & 2.5 mpg on the slider

His spin is similar to last year except for his curve. It's up and he's going to it much more.

He's attacking righties with high heat and then back door sliders.

He's attacking lefties with high heat away and back foot curves.

Ks are way up, BBs are down.

The only thing he doesn't have working for him is when he's been hit this year, it's been hard significantly more than last year.

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I feel like Javier, enoldi and abreau all have the same main concern for me when they take the mound. All have electric stuff but they can be erratic with command. If they can keep free passes low they just seem drastically more effective

I know that's a little captain obvious but they start walking guys and they seem to mentality start thinking too much it seems

You may want to take Javier out of that group. He's only walked 3 guys all year.

Yes, the young BP guys need some control help. Scrubb, Taylor, Enoli, Abreu, etc. They all walk way too many.

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Looking at the metrics for Javier - here is where he's improving.

Velo up ~1 mpg on the heater & 2.5 mpg on the slider

His spin is similar to last year except for his curve. It's up and he's going to it much more.

He's attacking righties with high heat and then back door sliders.

He's attacking lefties with high heat away and back foot curves.

Ks are way up, BBs are down.

The only thing he doesn't have working for him is when he's been hit this year, it's been hard significantly more than last year.

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I feel like Javier, enoldi and abreau all have the same main concern for me when they take the mound. All have electric stuff but they can be erratic with command. If they can keep free passes low they just seem drastically more effective

I know that's a little captain obvious but they start walking guys and they seem to mentality start thinking too much it seems

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There's really only one way to get that out of their system and that's experience. Unfortunately they have to do on the job learning.

Urquidy, Javier, and Garcia are going to be a studly 1/2/3 punch in the next few years.

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You may want to take Javier out of that group. He's only walked 3 guys all year.

Yes, the young BP guys need some control help. Scrubb, Taylor, Enoli, Abreu, etc. They all walk way too many.

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To be fair he has only pitched 3 times and one of them he went 3 innings and the other two starts he went 5 innings.

But yes to this point he has been better. I felt like last year he was just average at this and had a few wild starts.

If you take away the Suzuki 12-pitch AB Javier goes another inning.

I like that at that point with the lead we were trying to challenge a not great hitter- it just didn't work out. He did get the job done, but racked up pitches and almost resulted in a HR several times. Hopefully we can keep scoring for him and he can go after guys a little more like JV does and even if it means the occasional solo homer, he can get deeper into games.

What a talent though. His delivery and electricity remind me of Pedro Martinez.

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Is that JJ Watt with dad bod?

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That's our grade A badass in CF.

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Urquidy, Javier, and Garcia are going to be a studly 1/2/3 punch in the next few years.

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Agree that Javier and Urquidy will make a solid 2/3 punch behind Ace Garcia

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Urquidy, Javier, and Garcia are going to be a studly 1/2/3 punch in the next few years.

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Agree that Javier and Urquidy will make a solid 2/3 punch behind Ace Garcia

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whats with the framber hate?

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I feel confident in predicting something like this will likely never happen again with how quickly pitchers good the hook these days.

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It is so funny to me watching back old videos of that generation of baseball and seeing how they're all built...no one will ever convince me they didn't ALL know what was going on. They remind me of comparing the players of regular NFL video games to "NFL BLITZ" video game characters.

Every time I watch a clip from that "era" that's all I think about it... No homeaux

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Urquidy, Javier, and Garcia are going to be a studly 1/2/3 punch in the next few years.

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Agree that Javier and Urquidy will make a solid 2/3 punch behind Ace Garcia

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We locked up McCullers remember. (2027 FA)

Also, yall wrong for sleeping on Framber just because he hurt his finger. (2026 FA)

Co-Co Aces with Garica?

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The dude dropping his glove during the second one and reaching down like he could potentially reach it from there

Aren't you supposed to be teaching our next generation of leaders about trigonometry about right now?

Something about volume and ratios.

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Aren't you supposed to be teaching our next generation of leaders about trigonometry about right now?

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It's a problem of maximizing surface area for a fixed volume. It also incorporates mass and moments of inertia as well as torsion.

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Aren't you supposed to be teaching our next generation of leaders about trigonometry about right now?

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It's a problem of maximizing surface area for a fixed volume. It also incorporates mass and moments of inertia as well as torsion.

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You might have to teach about the elasticity of a waistband too once they see that .gif

Angels mash Greinke historically

Hopefully we get the same Greinke from his last start.

I haven't seen the Angels lineup posted yet. Let's wait and see who's in it. Plus I wouldn't be too crazy about what Pujols did vs Greinke 10 years ago.

He's had 3 starts vs LAA as an Astro. 1 poor, 1 okay, and 1 good.

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I haven't seen the Angels lineup posted yet. Let's wait and see who's in it. Plus I wouldn't be too crazy about what Pujols did vs Greinke 10 years ago.

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Almost back to normal personnel.

While I don't question his value, I'm surprised he's coming up without a stop at the alternate site first. I don't think he could be there before because of his suspension

Emanuel has had a very iffy career in the minors which has lasted 10 years. 2019 was the first year since 2013 he posted an ERA below 4