Yordan Alvarez was banned from competitive bullriding after an exhibition in San Antonio, when he rode the bull 1,346 miles to Milwaukee Wisconsin to pick up his dry cleaning. Yordan Alvarez knows the last digit of pi. Yordan Alvarez once pissed in the gas tank of a semi truck as a joke - that truck is now known as Optimus Prime.
Surfers eagerly await every Alvarez at bat. The ripple effect from his swing causes the ocean to part, creating the most enormous waves man has seen. Vaya con dios, vaya con dios, dude.
Three Astronauts reported seeing a suborbital object last night approximately the size of a baseball. NASA will not confirm or deny.
It finally occured to me that Yordan's swing is like a trebuchet. Like seriously, look at his swing from the side. He loads up off the ground a little bit on his back leg, and then it's a rather small drop forward of a lot of man mass to deliver power over a long swing to the bat. So, when he hits the thing, it goes a mile, just like a trebuchet can throw a giant rock a mile. The problem is that trebuchets are slow and hard to maneuver. Once Yordan's lifted himself up, he has no option but to go with that long swing in the direction he's pointed. Bregman's swing is more like a catapult if we're making siege weapon comparisons. Less powerful but it's a much shorter, faster stroke, and it's already fully coiled and throws immediately when the line is cut. Far more maneuverable than a trebuchet. Not going to try to take this analogy too far, because it's already falling apart. However, he really does look like a trebuchet when he swings, IMO. For good and ill. Against these top-level pitchers he needs more speed and maneuverability as opposed to raw power, I'd say.
I want Yordan up there attacking the first pitch unless it is high heat. He should be looking middle down and firing away. I swear it seems like every at bat (I know it's not every one), he gets a decent strike to hit on the first pitch, takes it, then gets behind and ends up getting out on a very tough third strike. I know there is a collective benefit when our hitters are patient and run up pitch counts. But dang Yordan is so dangerous when he makes contact.
Yordan's ABs this series: [0 on, 1 out]Called strike, Ball, Foul, Ball, K swinging [1st, 0 out] CS, lineout DP (the Bregman play) [0 on, 0 out] CS, foul, ball, KS [man on 1st, 0 out] Ball, ball, ball, called strike, Walk [1st-2nd, 2 out] Called strike, popup [1st-2nd, 2 out] Foul, foul, foul, KS [1st, 1 out] Called strike, ball, foul, KS on pitch in dirt [1st-2nd, 1 out] Called strike, ball, ball, called strike, KS He's been ahead in the count twice in 9 PAs
You come in here with all the data!! Called strike on first pitch in 6 of 9 AB's. Only one good "result" in those 6 AB's, the lineout DP. With a bullpen as good as the Yankees, I'd rather Yordan ambush on pitch 1 than run pitch count. Maybe he feels more comfortable if he sees pitches and isn't a first strike swinger?
Look at his stats when he gets to 2 strikes vs otherwise and look at his stats after he has an 0-1 count, it confirms the eye test we've been seeing all year: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=alvaryo01&year=2019&t=b#count::none
Seems unlikely on the 1B. They really don't like him there, even if it is his "easiest" and most obvious path to using his glove in the future. Seems like if he's going to not DH it will be b/c he is playing LF
