Tag: ground

Key to Success in 2021: Avoid Ground Balls

As baseball fans, we debate the contrasting views. “It’s all about launch angle, hit it over the shift.” Then the other side counters with, “take the single, push the ball the other way and beat the shift.” But which approach is more effective? Jared Diamond answered this question is a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. Sometimes statistical evidence can be...

With Posada Off The Table, Will Mets Find Common Ground With Lo Duca?

We’ve spent a lot of time pondering the question of who will be the New York Mets’ catcher when they report to Spring Training in 2008. Most fans, including me, hoped that it would be Paul Lo Duca, but now everything seems so hazy at best.Our friend Mark Hale of the NY Post, had this to say this morning in his column.There’s not much contact right now between the Mets and Paul...