Damn excited for tomorrow. Things I'm already looking forward to are the Padres and Mets missing the playoffs, the Ohtani saga, and Judge crashing down to earth.
And I already miss Pujols. If only that man did not sign in LA all those years ago. Absolute legend.
I thought they were the crazy's who traded for Wells with a fair bit of term left on that albatross thecJays gave him.
Which is frankly worse...they also botched the Pujols thing...they're paying the ghost of Anthony Rendon a pretty penny.
I think you’re right. It was a trade. Total facepalm. I remember as a fan we thought his contract was untradeable but it was apparently. And they realized very quickly what a mistake they made. Jays also messed up not keeping Napoli in that trade. I think they dealt him right away.
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The one moment bound to live beyond the night came from Angels right fielder Hunter Renfroe, who made a no-look, behind-the-back catch on a savage liner off the bat of Jace Peterson. Just as Renfroe appeared resigned to playing it off the wall, it landed in his glove. "Wasn't a good catch," he said, "but a weird catch."
IMO its one of the greatest catches ive ever seen because it was so....weird.
No look, facing the wrong way as was his glove.
Not sure how it even happened, and ive watched it a dozen times.
Yes and I believe the average game time from last year's opening day was 3 hours and 20 minutes, so 35 minutes on average shaved off game time with the pitch clock.
IMO its one of the greatest catches ive ever seen because it was so....weird.
No look, facing the wrong way as was his glove.
Not sure how it even happened, and ive watched it a dozen times.
When you're turned the wrong way the tendency is to spin to try and get back on course so your head is looking the right way. But he drifts back and reaches out without turning his body or head. From having watched batting practices these guys do try no look type stuff shagging fly balls In batting practice quite frequently. So visually he did see the ball and had the timing to be able to reach out when he needed and grab it.
In reality he misread the ball off the bat and initially turned the wrong way forcing himself into a more difficult catch. But to his credit he recovered to make the play that most players would screw up after having gone the wrong way. Its s tough play to make if read right, but probably one that 75% of outfielders should make given where he started and ended and velocity plus launch angle.
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