its probably my Padres bias talking, but there was some stat on screen during the Darvish game that said the Padres are the first team since 1893 to have 4 starters in a row go 5 innings or more and only give up 2 or fewer hits. The more I read that the more it sounds super specific and less impressive, but over 100 years is kinda crazy
Yes, sir! I know you're in or from Atlanta. I grew up in Roswell, so it's nice to see a super good dude who treats baseball like the art it is. You look about my age. Is there any chance you played in East Cobb? Apologies for writing a novel to you😆
I was gonna say you don't sound like you're from the South. Wow! What a small world! I played for the EC Astros for one year and ended up leaving EC and joined a traveling team with a coach I had multiple times in Little League. You should be a super proud father because it's not easy to get on EC teams. Especially those two! Congrats on everything! I'll say a prayer, and maybe one day you will have a kid in the bigs that's becomes a pitching ninja. Keep up the great work!!
And the Gil got dug in 🥾 few more k’s would have being nice but another great outing kids era is 2.51 after 8 starts he’s being the Yankees best pitcher. Unbelievable 🙏🏼
My thought is that they both likely impact a pitcher's health. However, the trade off is also huge. High velo or high RPMs mean lots of $. Dialing back on velo or spin may be the difference of being ok vs. Great or being in MLB vs being at home. Since we're not talking about life or death (not CTE in football), many pitchers are intelligently making a trade off of risk/reward. Had a detailed discussion with Tejay Antone on this on our last Baseball Dojo podcast where he agreed, he'd gladly make that tradeoff because misses with lower velo get hammered. It's rare that anyone in any sport is so talented that they can dial things back and still dominate. I do think that's somewhat what Jordan Hicks is doing this year, and we'll see how that ends up after the season. So far so good. But he's dialing back from 103 to a mere 98 mph which is still fast.
It can depend highly on the individual how risky it is too. Mason Miller seems to be riding the edge in regards to his elbow (strained it last year) vs Paul Skenes who consistently throws heat 100+ with a clearly less violent arm motion.
Wont be long before that tune turns into mike sore shoulder. I loved that guy but he just could not stay on the field. The way his arm angle has changed has killed his sinker as well.
I don’t know why the Mets didn’t resign homegrown Seth Lugo. He’s always been a spin rate darling. Of course there was the disconnect/conflict between Lugo & Mets’ brass; Lugo wanted to start while the Mets wanted to keep him in the ‘Pen. Wherever he pitches, he has always been good & durable. Sometimes availability is the best of the bunch. The Mets vaunted rebuild in the mid-2010’s was built on pitching which included Matt Harvey, Zach Wheeler, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz, & Seth Lugo. Harvey & Syndergaard both fizzled out after injury. Both relied on velo for success & weren’t able to remake themselves as pitchers like one Bartolo Colon who went from power pitcher to a Greg Maddux type control & movement pitcher. Former idiotic & myopic Mets GM Brodie Van Wagenen let Wheeler walk to the Phils on a relatively modest contract. Wheeler showed he was filthy, but also consistent after injuries plagued his first couple of years. Wheeler wanted to stay a Met & showed he could thrive under the unforgiving Bright Lights of the Big Apple which eats alive some players. Now Matz is decent but has injury issues.. Of course deGrom was arguably the most gifted & filthiest of the bunch but he had 3 injury shortened years prior to signing with the Rangers where he got hurt again & is out for 2024. He could probably throw at 85% of his max & reduce the stress he puts on his arm & still be better than 99% of the league. Wheeler & Lugo turned out to be the best of all them as they’ve stayed healthy & consistent yet the Mets idiotically let them both walk . DeGrom might be the nastiest butI’d argue that because Wheeler & Lugo have stayed healthy for a long stretch they turned out to be the best. Nonetheless, the Mets let them walk which makes my blood boil & still stings. Then The Mets wonder why the Braves & Phils consistently win over them.😦🫤😬😠😡🤬😤😭 Now he isn’t a pitcher but the Mets homegrown first baseman Pete Alonso, who happens to be one of the game’s best power hitters is in his final year of his contract yet the Mets haven’t extended him. Ridiculous. If they let him walk for nothing, it will alienate Mets fans & could cause irreparable damage to the goodwill of the franchise. We supposedly got a shrewd nee GM In David Stearns who is a local kid & grew up a Mets fam, but ai don’t know what the hell they are doing with Alonso. Makes my blood boil.
Luis Castillo 🤮 watched that game lastnight the man was painting with heat 2 solo shots few hits but his strikeouts where a thing of beauty. I remember Shohei giving Luis a look while stranded on second aftet after a strikeout he wasn’t impressed. Ninja sets trends no following here 😂 congratulations on 🤺 recognition man 🥷🏿👏🏻👏🏻
Trevor Bauer also sells sword merch. Wonder if this was just one more way for MLB to take even more money out of his pocket. Make sure MLB pays you royalties Ninja!
Again, he got it from me. And I also sold Sword Merch first. He did invent his K strut...after years for watching my Sword stuff on twitter (and his merch is really featuring that, which is totally cool). x.com/PitchingNinja/status/1401516912044019722
Ah--gotcha! I've just been getting so many comments from folks who think Bauer invented the sword thing, probably a little defensive on my part. He clearly has the talent to pitch in MLB (I can't imagine anyone with 2 eyes would deny that).
@@samurai_8917he looks happier there than in the US. I can't blame him, dude just loves to pitch no matter where, he would go to a local amateur league if they treated him right
@@samurai_8917 What is he just supposed to not play baseball now? Dude loves the sport and is good at it, play where he can play. But I agree he belongs in the MLB.
Amazing that 3 guys threw their bats to third base in the same game! Or was that just really shi++y editing, I wonder? Then I discover the whole video is a car accident of bad editing! Judas Priest! Up your game a bit.
Nope. He got it from me and admitted it. It was famous for several years on Twitter before he started his sword k strut. See: x.com/PitchingNinja/status/1401516912044019722
Because, for one, I have no relationship with that Mexican league and don't know what their rules are re posting their content. It's not worth the copyright risk to me. For example, NPB is very careful about their content and I've gotten take down notices from them before. I'm not risking it. I do have relationships with MLB and, for some content, NPB (now).
love the vids ninja and you did say sword a lot but we all know trevor made the term up but the mlb hates him and wouldn’t put the name trevor bauer on the rule rule😂
Bauer did not make the term up. He got it from me. “ In one instance, he paid homage to the Pitching Ninja after a swinging strikeout of Alex Dickerson. The not-quite-full hack was a "sword," in Ninja parlance, so Bauer pantomimed sheathing a large sword.” www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/trevor-bauer-dodgers-giants-rivalry/jzsukr3ww9dx1epuh0gyjtgl9 Here’s Bauer talking about getting it from me: x.com/pitchingninja/status/1401516912044019722?s=61&t=sK7YKuQmHIGA5Ob1hHUwLw
its probably my Padres bias talking, but there was some stat on screen during the Darvish game that said the Padres are the first team since 1893 to have 4 starters in a row go 5 innings or more and only give up 2 or fewer hits. The more I read that the more it sounds super specific and less impressive, but over 100 years is kinda crazy
Pitching Ninja forever changing the game of baseball!
Thanks my man!
That Chris Martin joke got a chuckle out of me 😂 as did Castillo's K strut, what a gem
Bryan looks just like Pedro, nice to see.
Great news on the sword front !
That's amazing news! Congrats on the Sword Rule, my man!
Thanks!
Yes, sir! I know you're in or from Atlanta. I grew up in Roswell, so it's nice to see a super good dude who treats baseball like the art it is. You look about my age. Is there any chance you played in East Cobb? Apologies for writing a novel to you😆
Thanks! I grew up in NY...so didn't play around here, but I coached at East Cobb and my son played for both the Astros and Yankees at ECB
trevor bauer made it up😔
I was gonna say you don't sound like you're from the South. Wow! What a small world! I played for the EC Astros for one year and ended up leaving EC and joined a traveling team with a coach I had multiple times in Little League. You should be a super proud father because it's not easy to get on EC teams. Especially those two! Congrats on everything! I'll say a prayer, and maybe one day you will have a kid in the bigs that's becomes a pitching ninja. Keep up the great work!!
So hype about the sword stat, awesome Ninja xD
And the Gil got dug in 🥾 few more k’s would have being nice but another great outing kids era is 2.51 after 8 starts he’s being the Yankees best pitcher. Unbelievable 🙏🏼
Bro the Malone reference😂😂
Would love to hear pitching ninjas thoughts on RPM and MPH versus pitcher health and longevity.
My thought is that they both likely impact a pitcher's health. However, the trade off is also huge. High velo or high RPMs mean lots of $. Dialing back on velo or spin may be the difference of being ok vs. Great or being in MLB vs being at home. Since we're not talking about life or death (not CTE in football), many pitchers are intelligently making a trade off of risk/reward. Had a detailed discussion with Tejay Antone on this on our last Baseball Dojo podcast where he agreed, he'd gladly make that tradeoff because misses with lower velo get hammered. It's rare that anyone in any sport is so talented that they can dial things back and still dominate. I do think that's somewhat what Jordan Hicks is doing this year, and we'll see how that ends up after the season. So far so good. But he's dialing back from 103 to a mere 98 mph which is still fast.
It can depend highly on the individual how risky it is too. Mason Miller seems to be riding the edge in regards to his elbow (strained it last year) vs Paul Skenes who consistently throws heat 100+ with a clearly less violent arm motion.
Caught myself singing Mike Soroka yesterday.
Wont be long before that tune turns into mike sore shoulder. I loved that guy but he just could not stay on the field. The way his arm angle has changed has killed his sinker as well.
Congrats on MLB coining your 'Sword' Ninja!! Well deserved🥳
Thanks!
Savant really should track which pitchers get the most swords. That would be a cool stat.
They do! Check the pitching leaderboard under bat tracking
sword is from the movie benchwarmers
It took me like ten views of the moment of Zen before I maybe figured out what happened.
Nasty!! Nasty!! Nasty!! ⚾⚾⚾
I don’t know why the Mets didn’t resign homegrown Seth Lugo. He’s always been a spin rate darling. Of course there was the disconnect/conflict between Lugo & Mets’ brass; Lugo wanted to start while the Mets wanted to keep him in the ‘Pen. Wherever he pitches, he has always been good & durable. Sometimes availability is the best of the bunch.
The Mets vaunted rebuild in the mid-2010’s was built on pitching which included Matt Harvey, Zach Wheeler, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz, & Seth Lugo. Harvey & Syndergaard both fizzled out after injury. Both relied on velo for success & weren’t able to remake themselves as pitchers like one Bartolo Colon who went from power pitcher to a Greg Maddux type control & movement pitcher.
Former idiotic & myopic Mets GM Brodie Van Wagenen let Wheeler walk to the Phils on a relatively modest contract. Wheeler showed he was filthy, but also consistent after injuries plagued his first couple of years. Wheeler wanted to stay a Met & showed he could thrive under the unforgiving Bright Lights of the Big Apple which eats alive some players. Now Matz is decent but has injury issues.. Of course deGrom was arguably the most gifted & filthiest of the bunch but he had 3 injury shortened years prior to signing with the Rangers where he got hurt again & is out for 2024. He could probably throw at 85% of his max & reduce the stress he puts on his arm & still be better than 99% of the league. Wheeler & Lugo turned out to be the best of all them as they’ve stayed healthy & consistent yet the Mets idiotically let them both walk . DeGrom might be the nastiest butI’d argue that because Wheeler & Lugo have stayed healthy for a long stretch they turned out to be the best. Nonetheless, the Mets let them walk which makes my blood boil & still stings. Then The Mets wonder why the Braves & Phils consistently win over them.😦🫤😬😠😡🤬😤😭
Now he isn’t a pitcher but the Mets homegrown first baseman Pete Alonso, who happens to be one of the game’s best power hitters is in his final year of his contract yet the Mets haven’t extended him. Ridiculous. If they let him walk for nothing, it will alienate Mets fans & could cause irreparable damage to the goodwill of the franchise. We supposedly got a shrewd nee GM In David Stearns who is a local kid & grew up a Mets fam, but ai don’t know what the hell they are doing with Alonso. Makes my blood boil.
I thought Bauer started the Sword thing
No, he got it from me, after following me for years. x.com/pitchingninja/status/1401516912044019722?s=61&t=sK7YKuQmHIGA5Ob1hHUwLw
@@PitchingNinjaVideos Oh, that's awesome! Thanks for the reply, love your videos. Pitching really is an art.
Luis Castillo 🤮 watched that game lastnight the man was painting with heat 2 solo shots few hits but his strikeouts where a thing of beauty. I remember Shohei giving Luis a look while stranded on second aftet after a strikeout he wasn’t impressed. Ninja sets trends no following here 😂 congratulations on 🤺 recognition man 🥷🏿👏🏻👏🏻
Did Ninja just call it a "bitch timer violation"?
Pitching Ninja 🗡️⚔️🗡️ has been knighted by MLB.
Cheese at the knees, this I like 😮
Trevor Bauer also sells sword merch. Wonder if this was just one more way for MLB to take even more money out of his pocket. Make sure MLB pays you royalties Ninja!
Again, he got it from me. And I also sold Sword Merch first. He did invent his K strut...after years for watching my Sword stuff on twitter (and his merch is really featuring that, which is totally cool). x.com/PitchingNinja/status/1401516912044019722
@@PitchingNinjaVideos my comment was more a dig at MLB not letting dude pitch. Love your content Ninja!
Ah--gotcha! I've just been getting so many comments from folks who think Bauer invented the sword thing, probably a little defensive on my part. He clearly has the talent to pitch in MLB (I can't imagine anyone with 2 eyes would deny that).
@@PitchingNinjaVideos edited original comment to (hopefully) clear it up. 👍
Trevor Bauer would be happy with this i think
shame hes wasting his arm pitching in Mexico, easily an MLB caliber pitcher.
@@samurai_8917he looks happier there than in the US. I can't blame him, dude just loves to pitch no matter where, he would go to a local amateur league if they treated him right
@@maxiamarilla5020He’s trying really hard to get back to MLB pitching
@@samurai_8917 What is he just supposed to not play baseball now? Dude loves the sport and is good at it, play where he can play. But I agree he belongs in the MLB.
@@samurai_8917 it's MLB's fault hes down there.
Bauer has an entire clothing line of "sword" shirts and has it on some of his gloves.
He's allowed to. I've had sword shirts out for many many years. rotowear.com/products/pitching-ninja-sword-t-shirt?_pos=1&_sid=00a0b6632&_ss=r
_since they cracked down on sticky stuff_
Cough, ahem, cough
Zach Wheeler's catcher was swapped right before the game to Stubbs, who sucks.
Throwing hammers like those stupid turtles in Super Mario
can you guys give me a nickname please
Ha! I need to watch you pitch. :)
I know Trevor uses the term sword all the time, but I wasn't sure who came up with it. Now I know!
Its not Unlce Charlie. Its not Lord Charles. Its King Chuck.
Ridiculous curveball
And IDGAF...The Mailman will always be Karl.
Just give Bauer some credit too...
Bauer got it from watching his videos.
Am I the only one that thinks W-L should be removed from a pitchers stats?
Amazing that 3 guys threw their bats to third base in the same game! Or was that just really shi++y editing, I wonder?
Then I discover the whole video is a car accident of bad editing! Judas Priest! Up your game a bit.
Trevor Bauer made the Sword famous Ninja. Maybe you should recognize him once in a while!
Nope. He got it from me and admitted it. It was famous for several years on Twitter before he started his sword k strut. See: x.com/PitchingNinja/status/1401516912044019722
@@PitchingNinjaVideos I know, but I know it from him. I never knew you existed until a month ago.
@@PitchingNinjaVideos Ninja why didn't you highlight his last game where he dominated? You're the pitching Ninja!
That's a you issue and not a me issue. I had more followers than him for forever on Twitter...and that's where he got it.
Because, for one, I have no relationship with that Mexican league and don't know what their rules are re posting their content. It's not worth the copyright risk to me. For example, NPB is very careful about their content and I've gotten take down notices from them before. I'm not risking it. I do have relationships with MLB and, for some content, NPB (now).
love the vids ninja and you did say sword a lot but we all know trevor made the term up but the mlb hates him and wouldn’t put the name trevor bauer on the rule rule😂
Bauer did not make the term up. He got it from me. “ In one instance, he paid homage to the Pitching Ninja after a swinging strikeout of Alex Dickerson. The not-quite-full hack was a "sword," in Ninja parlance, so Bauer pantomimed sheathing a large sword.” www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/trevor-bauer-dodgers-giants-rivalry/jzsukr3ww9dx1epuh0gyjtgl9
Here’s Bauer talking about getting it from me: x.com/pitchingninja/status/1401516912044019722?s=61&t=sK7YKuQmHIGA5Ob1hHUwLw