If choking up and hitting a 75 MPH liner into left field is solid contact to you, it's probably not the same thing.  If hitting the same pitch over the left fielder's head at 100 MPH is solid contact, then yes, it's the same thing.

So you don't know what solid contact is?

I guess not?  Maybe you explain it to me.

I thought, in another thread, that getting on base was big in BL's book.

If a 75 MPH liner into left field falls for a base hit, is that a bad thing?  Is it worse than a strikeout?

Posted by tecwrg on 5/29/2014 12:26:00 PM (view original):
I thought, in another thread, that getting on base was big in BL's book.

If a 75 MPH liner into left field falls for a base hit, is that a bad thing?  Is it worse than a strikeout?

What exactly are you arguing? It seems like you're going in circles.

It is a big thing.

Hitting a ball 100 MPH is better than hitting a ball 75 MPH.  And, as it's been said numerous times already, hitting the ball is better than striking out.

What's better?  A big, full swing that grazes over the top of the ball and becomes a slow grounderl to third, or a shorter compact swing that's lined into LF for a base hit?

If it's a 75 mile-per-hour flyball that scores the runner tagging from third, was that not better than a strike out?

Posted by The Taint on 5/29/2014 12:29:00 PM (view original):
If it's a 75 mile-per-hour flyball that scores the runner tagging from third, was that not better than a strike out?

OMFG not this again.

Agree or disagree: A team that replaces a third of its strikeouts with outs in play will not increase its season run total.

But it could increase its single game run total, which is how you win games.

Posted by bad_luck on 5/29/2014 12:28:00 PM (view original):

Posted by tecwrg on 5/29/2014 12:26:00 PM (view original):
I thought, in another thread, that getting on base was big in BL's book.

If a 75 MPH liner into left field falls for a base hit, is that a bad thing?  Is it worse than a strikeout?

What exactly are you arguing? It seems like you're going in circles.

I'm trying to see what you think the goal of a batter's plate appearance should be.

Should it be a HR / XBH, or should it be making solid contact?  Or something else.

Burnsy said "hit the ball hard", which we think is another way of saying "making solid contact" without using the word contact (because we know where that would go).  But apparently, his definition of making solid contact means a 100 MPH line drive over the LF wall.  Anything short of that is not solid contact.

Posted by tecwrg on 5/29/2014 12:29:00 PM (view original):
What's better?  A big, full swing that grazes over the top of the ball and becomes a slow grounderl to third, or a shorter compact swing that's lined into LF for a base hit?

The hit, obviously.  

Posted by tecwrg on 5/29/2014 12:32:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bad_luck on 5/29/2014 12:28:00 PM (view original):

Posted by tecwrg on 5/29/2014 12:26:00 PM (view original):
I thought, in another thread, that getting on base was big in BL's book.

If a 75 MPH liner into left field falls for a base hit, is that a bad thing?  Is it worse than a strikeout?

What exactly are you arguing? It seems like you're going in circles.

I'm trying to see what you think the goal of a batter's plate appearance should be.

Should it be a HR / XBH, or should it be making solid contact?  Or something else.

Burnsy said "hit the ball hard", which we think is another way of saying "making solid contact" without using the word contact (because we know where that would go).  But apparently, his definition of making solid contact means a 100 MPH line drive over the LF wall.  Anything short of that is not solid contact.

If I can take a pitch and hit it 100 MPH, and I only hit it 75 MPH, I wouldn't claim I hit the ball hard, no.

Posted by burnsy483 on 5/29/2014 12:33:00 PM (view original):

Posted by tecwrg on 5/29/2014 12:29:00 PM (view original):
What's better?  A big, full swing that grazes over the top of the ball and becomes a slow grounderl to third, or a shorter compact swing that's lined into LF for a base hit?

The hit, obviously.  

So would you say a shorter compact swing that's lined into LF for a base hit is a good result of a plate apperance?

Is it better than a strikeout?