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re: Dylan Crews learning to handle professional pitching in double AA

Posted on 5/2/24 at 1:20 pm to
Posted by PoppaD
Texas
Member since Feb 2008
4941 posts
Posted on 5/2/24 at 1:20 pm to
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For the season, he has just three walks and 20 strikeouts, a concerning ratio considering that his bat-to-ball skills made him such a highly touted prospect.


We all know Crews was a heck of a patient hitter in College Baseball. The strike outs shows you that AA pitchers absolutely fill the zone with strikes. Not many free passes as you move up.

The fact that AA pitchers fill the zone with vertical and horizontal moving strikes, is scary for players making the adjustments from College ball.

If you think about how good MLB pitching is it really makes you respect the great hitters in MLB that can hit that stuff.
Posted by Czechessential
Member since Apr 2024
467 posts
Posted on 5/2/24 at 1:24 pm to
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makes you respect the great hitters in MLB that can hit that stuff.


and the best ones still fail 70% of the time
Posted by denvertiger
Golden
Member since Feb 2007
3927 posts
Posted on 5/2/24 at 1:35 pm to
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If you think about how good MLB pitching is it really makes you respect the great hitters in MLB that can hit that stuff.


Michael Jordan said he knew he'd never be a big league hitter when he got back to the dugout after a K and one of the kids asked him if they got him on a 2 or 4-seam curveball. And he had no idea.
Posted by Thib-a-doe Tiger
Member since Nov 2012
35413 posts
Posted on 5/2/24 at 2:14 pm to
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All the dudes on here that have a kid playing 8U travel ball told me that you can’t hit like that. It’s amazing how much they know! If only Coach had put them in, they could have won state!



I'll take things that didn't happen for $400, Alex



I am pretty sure there's nobody out there teaching people to lunge at the ball
Posted by Thib-a-doe Tiger
Member since Nov 2012
35413 posts
Posted on 5/2/24 at 2:15 pm to
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Wyatt Langford says hello and is batting 4 hole for the rangers




DC answering that call



Posted by Thib-a-doe Tiger
Member since Nov 2012
35413 posts
Posted on 5/2/24 at 2:19 pm to
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He must not have watched Crews play at LSU very often. Crews was a tremendously patient hitter.




You can be overly-agressive with pitches inside the zone. Hence front foot hitting
Posted by LSU82BILL
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Member since Sep 2006
10331 posts
Posted on 5/2/24 at 4:27 pm to
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You can be overly-agressive with pitches inside the zone. Hence front foot hitting


WTF are you talking about?
Posted by Wayne Campbell
Aurora, IL
Member since Oct 2011
6381 posts
Posted on 5/2/24 at 4:53 pm to
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Langford destroyed minor league pitching last year after he was drafted
He made the Rangers out of spring training and hasn't done much while with the MLB team so far. Rangers may have rushed him too soon.in


Texas League is a hitter’s league. Eastern League is a pitcher’s league. It hasn’t even warmed up in Pennsylvania yet. Crews will figure it out.
This post was edited on 5/2/24 at 4:53 pm
Posted by HC87
Coastal NC
Member since Dec 2014
4563 posts
Posted on 5/2/24 at 5:57 pm to
LINK

2-3 2b, 3b & 3 rbis in the Thursday afternoon game.

Posted by ForeverEllisHugh
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2016
14849 posts
Posted on 5/2/24 at 6:32 pm to
I have no doubt he’ll turn things around.

I’d be interested in seeing his SEC Friday-only stats - feel like that would be the closest possible approximation to high-A.
Posted by Choupique19
The cheap seats
Member since Sep 2005
61980 posts
Posted on 5/2/24 at 6:37 pm to
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Holy actual frick. These are horrible numbers


His average jumped 26 points today with just two hits. That’s how early in the season it is, and 7 of those strikeouts came when he came back from injury after sitting out nearly two weeks.
Posted by Strannix
District 11
Member since Dec 2012
48975 posts
Posted on 5/2/24 at 6:57 pm to
Doesnt sound like he's learning
Posted by BasilBogomil
Member since Dec 2012
6095 posts
Posted on 5/2/24 at 7:08 pm to
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2-3 2b, 3b & 3 rbis in the Thursday afternoon game.


Crews is fine. Much ado about nothing
Posted by Thib-a-doe Tiger
Member since Nov 2012
35413 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 9:04 am to
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WTF are you talking about?




If you are trying to jump on fastballs you can get out on your front foot if they throw an offspeed pitch that was still going to be a strike.


See Tommy White's early season this year, or any Kling AB
Posted by Honest Tune
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2011
15705 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 9:08 am to
Dylan will be just fine.
Posted by Fun Bunch
New Orleans
Member since May 2008
116146 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 9:16 am to
He will be fine. He is just too damn good to not be.
Posted by TigerZeke62
25 minutes SE of Thibodaux Louzana
Member since Jan 2016
124 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 11:04 am to
Thanks for that
Posted by grizzlylongcut
Member since Sep 2021
9515 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 7:29 pm to
Kinda surprised that Langford is already in the majors prior to Crews to be honest.

Feel like Crews is a better all around player than him once he figures it out.
Posted by VolunGator
Franklin, TN
Member since Jan 2020
1149 posts
Posted on 5/3/24 at 7:50 pm to
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He’ll be fine. Not everyone adapts as quickly to professional baseball as Skenes. Skenes is an animal.


Wyatt Langford says hi
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