Lightsol
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- Aug 2, 2005
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Smoak has sucked for virtually his entire career regardless of where he's been, therefore his "sometimes he's good, sometimes he's terrible" outcomes are simply a reflection of the type of player he is.
Yeah, I know. I'm just wishing that more Jays batters would swing at first pitches, because it's pretty clear that the book on their preferred "wait for your pitch" batting plan has gotten around. Note that 95% of the time, opposing pitchers will grove a fastball down the middle as their first pitch; they KNOW that the Jays batters aren't going to swing at the first pitch, because they hardly ever do.
In fact, I'm pretty sure that's partially responsible for Collabello suddenly looking good that year; he was one of the few Jays batters who WOULD swing at the first pitch... which kinda threw off a number of pitchers later in the season...