USCBatgirl21
Well-Known Member
And that was his mistake because the flattening of the seams was done to make the game more complete as to small and long ball. It was not introduced to bring back the days of Gorilla Ball.I appreciate you refreshing my memory on that. You are spot on. I guess adapting to the new bat might be a better description... at least on the repeat. With that said, in 2010 our number of sacs nearly doubled 2009. It wouldn't be too far fetched to say he may have been preparing for the new bat as early as then. I guess all that went out the window when they changed to ball in 2015. Holbrook may have pretty much abandoned smallball in 2014 in preparation of that. Couple of years later, we looked totally inept at it.
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