Mason Miller gives up HR on 104 mph heater

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Mason Miller gives up HR on 104 mph heater

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Gurriel hit an absolute bomb 440 feet
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I live in Scottsdale, landed in my front yard.

Good lesson for up and comers, doesn't matter how hard you throw, big leaguers will feast if you dont pitch/locate
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Good ol Jake Woodford gives up 5 runs in 11th and San Diego prevails
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Happens.

Newton's Third Law
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Baseball Savant wrote: 06 Aug 2025 00:21 am Good ol Jake Woodford gives up 5 runs in 11th and San Diego prevails
Hmm, I remember a poster on here who used to try and tell us frequently Woodford was good and needed to be in the rotation.
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Baseball Savant wrote: 06 Aug 2025 00:21 am Good ol Jake Woodford gives up 5 runs in 11th and San Diego prevails
Woodford was one of the slugs Cranny listed in his annual list of “up and coming” players. :lol:
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Bomber1 wrote: 06 Aug 2025 08:03 am
Baseball Savant wrote: 06 Aug 2025 00:21 am Good ol Jake Woodford gives up 5 runs in 11th and San Diego prevails
Woodford was one of the slugs Cranny listed in his annual list of “up and coming” players. :lol:
Was the starting pitcher in the AAA All Star game several years ago. You forgot to mention that, Bomber.
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Cranny wrote: 06 Aug 2025 08:59 am
Bomber1 wrote: 06 Aug 2025 08:03 am
Baseball Savant wrote: 06 Aug 2025 00:21 am Good ol Jake Woodford gives up 5 runs in 11th and San Diego prevails
Woodford was one of the slugs Cranny listed in his annual list of “up and coming” players. :lol:
Was the starting pitcher in the AAA All Star game several years ago. You forgot to mention that, Bomber.
I learned something today:
1. There’s a AAA All-Star Game.
2. Someone cares about it.
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Jobu's Rum wrote: 05 Aug 2025 23:57 pm I live in Scottsdale, landed in my front yard.

Good lesson for up and comers, doesn't matter how hard you throw, big leaguers will feast if you dont pitch/locate
When the Cardinals faced him a couple of days ago, Miller couldn't land a breaking pitch or secondary offering.

Like Helsley this year, hitters can just sit on that fastball. Spit on anything else unless he hangs one.

Miller is a couple of ticks faster than Helsley. But professional hitters can still hit a fastball even at 104 mph.

Can he vary shape and speed to throw hitters off? Anyway he's having a good season. So most things are working for him.
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Cranny loves his clean cut hard working white guys.
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JohnnyMO wrote: 06 Aug 2025 09:16 am Cranny loves his clean cut hard working white guys.
They’re like oxygen to a good chunk of Cardinal Nation.
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JohnnyMO wrote: 06 Aug 2025 09:16 am Cranny loves his clean cut hard working white guys.
Although… was he (or Hudson) really working that hard? I never saw anything about them visiting pitching labs to work on pitch shape / spin / design to try to figure out how to miss bats.

They both looked the part of innings eating mid-back of the rotation starters but never did anything development wise to get there. Some of that is obviously on the organization for being nearly a decade behind the industry in pitching development.
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Cranny wrote: 06 Aug 2025 08:59 am
Bomber1 wrote: 06 Aug 2025 08:03 am
Baseball Savant wrote: 06 Aug 2025 00:21 am Good ol Jake Woodford gives up 5 runs in 11th and San Diego prevails
Woodford was one of the slugs Cranny listed in his annual list of “up and coming” players. :lol:
Was the starting pitcher in the AAA All Star game several years ago. You forgot to mention that, Bomber.
Yay for Jake.

He has a ML career:
10-15 record
4.97 ERA
-.9 WAR

You forgot to mention that Cranny.
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Would’ve been nice to actually include a link in the OP…

https://www.mlb.com/dbacks/video/lourd ... ing-homer
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Baseball Savant wrote: 05 Aug 2025 23:50 pm Gurriel hit an absolute bomb 440 feet
Sounds like the Jordan Hicks Experience. 8)
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Sweet Jones wrote: 06 Aug 2025 11:26 am
Baseball Savant wrote: 05 Aug 2025 23:50 pm Gurriel hit an absolute bomb 440 feet
Sounds like the Jordan Hicks Experience. 8)
It’s not. He’s averaged over 13 K/9 (204 K in 138 IP) so far in his career.

Hicks is at 8.8/9 for his career (9.2 as a RP)
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