My catcher in high school always wanted to throw the same pitch as the previous pitch if it was a strike. Really great guy to hang with but he was not the sharpest billard ball in the rack.
I have no idea why this doesn't happen more often. If I'm the runner on 2nd, I'm making all sorts of overt (but bullshit) signs to the batter just to get into the pitchers head.
Goddamn seeing how long he was taking on his pitches I would assume this is the 9th inning with the the bases loaded, but then you find out it's the second inning and the pitcher is already balls deep in 47 pitches, like damn dude relax and just pitch.
I’m a cardinals fan he’s super young and we shouldn’t have brought him up yet he needs more time to develop but our whole management side and upper people are ass
This guy never got to pitch above double A and got forced into the majors cause of the covid stuff last season. He's also a really cool guy I got to meet him at a game
@@itsmrew oh yea he seems really chill he just needs more time to develop and being at the Major league level rn and not getting a win yet is gonna destroy his confidence
There are so many things going on with almost every single pitch - especially with runners on base. I hate that most people can’t see that, once you start noticing all the small things is when baseball gets entertaining. If ya blink ya might miss it
Sorry, long long long reply to this comment, but if you avid fan of the sport how you not understand every pitch is like a chess moves. I'm English played cricket, it the same in that sport each ball is chess move, to try out wit the batsman for an easier out Watching baseball from young, ofc there's a reason for all the calling of pitches, the shaking off, nodding, signals etc - just confused why it was such a revelation when you say 'entire life' - no agro tho ❤
As a college catcher, I would have a code change with sliding my glove in the dirt or placing my hand on my chest protector like I am adjusting it. Maybe toss a pebble or some dirt down first or 3rd base line. Lots of things, but never thought of using "out plus one" or "out number" as the indicator. That is awesome. Wish I would have thought of that one.
I actually was one of the first coaches to implement the out plus one awhile back now just came to me at dinner one night next thing I know buncha fuckin teams using it man should’ve patented it I guess lol
@Nick Paul Sometimes I think all of this just gets in the pitcher's head and instead of getting in a rhythm, he is over-thinking -- literally the worst thing a pitcher should be doing. Just have the catcher giving signs with an initiate/indicator and confirmation sign... This is why sometimes three football coaches will give offensive/defensive calls (not so much in the NFL because each team has one player on the field with an audio receiver.) Similar to how third-base coaches give signs. Bumping the pitch could also be hard to decipher: 2 fastball, 3 offspead, 4 other fastball/slider, 1 changeup/other special pitch. Just keep it easy for a pitcher to stay in rhythm.
@nickpaul241 no i came up with it a couple years ago at longhorn steakhouse after i took my little league team there, their parents mustve told the MLB
@@cathyv3424 well yeah, most pitchers are able to shake off stuff btwn innings or even btwn batters. How else could you give up a HR and still go out and pitch a good inning later, which we see all the time. Yaz was messing him up in that at-bat, and with 2 outs and him being in scoring position, anything that might let wilmer get a mistake pitch to drive is important.
@@balbarith45 Seriously. We're going to need a "restoration" of baseball one of these days, back to what it used to be, when players played for the love of the game and the fans watched because it was the pastime. It might even be happening right now in people's back yards: I'm enjoying watching MLW Wiffle Ball more than MLB nowadays.
Yep, can't do that anymore... you got 20 seconds or it's a ball... Batter has to get their butt ready as well. Watching Ortiz for years re-strap the 500 pieces of velcro he had drove me nuts. I don't care how good he was, it was infuriating to watch.
Thank you! Man I'm in my late 20s and have been a baseball fan all my life thanks to my dad. I get so pissed reading some of the comments on here bc they are all "bAsEbAlL iS bOrInG i OnLy WaTcH wHaT jOmBoY pOsTS" blah blah blah. I know they only say it thinking jomboy will reply lmao but it's still sad to see. Baseball is the greatest sport ever invented!
Not only within a game but also all the storylines that get created throughout the season. There's just so many details to keep in mind. It's really fun once you get a grasp of your own team, but when you look at the whole league it's a huge soap opera. We went from Dodgers vs. Padres to so much more. Giants, Astros, Red Sox, Mets, Phillies, Brewers. How Atlanta and Cardinals were supposed to win their divisions. Cubs and Nats sold their championship team. Shohei, Vladdy Jr, Tatis Jr, Bauer, Miggy so on and so on. Enjoy the season guys, i know i will from my own little corner
I remember a clip of Jake Peavy pitching for the Giants a few years ago. He was a veteran at the end of his career, known for being "intense" on the mound, and his catcher was an emergency rookie callup (at least one of the regulars was injured, maybe both). He got so exasperated with the rookie not calling the right pitch that finally he just yelled it to him.
I recall that, prior to Buster Posey, the Giants had a game where BOTH of their catchers had to come out of the game due to injury, so Pedro Feliz, normally at third or moved to left when Bonds wasn't playing, strapped on the gear and caught a few innings. Supposedly Pedro had some experience as a kid behind the plate, so he wasn't completely lost.
My team used a cool sign method. Catcher lays first sign and then you add 1 for every sign he shows after that. Say I throw 3 pitches: 1 = fastball, 2 = curve, 3 = change. Catcher flashes 2, 2, 2. The pitch is fastball. Start at 2, then there are 2 more signs shown. So go from 2 to 3 and start back over at 1. So simple, but so hard to crack.
I could envision some pitchers having a hard time with this one. "Let's see, that was 2+3+1+4. That's uh, 10, divide by 3, that leaves a remainder of 1....wait, why are you calling time?"
Damn the catcher would have to be very speedy at math for that, not only does he have to know which pitch he wants to land on, he also has to come up with the amount of signs he has to show the pitcher so the pitcher can figure that out, on the fly after every pitch, damn Catcher: ok I want him to throw a curve ball, I’ll show 4 signs, and he has to land on 2, which means I need to start on, ummm, hm, let’s see here, if I start on 1, thats 2,3,1, ok that’s not it, that means I need to start 2, ok so my sequence will be 2,3,1,1. Let’s hope to god he throws this curve ball That’s one pitch lmao
for real this is why the games average 3.5 hours... everybody screams "let's fuckin' goooo!" until it's time to do something, then it's "let's fuckin' wait, reset, wait, check something, step off, not feeling it, okay, nah wait again, discuss it, etc."
When I’m tired but can’t sleep I go through the list a Super Bowls in my head. I probably would have done that if I were at this game waiting for the next pitch.
There is a certain weird logic to it. I remember that because I remember that first the Broncos needed to get redemption for what happened against the Seahawks. Then the Seahawks needed their punishment.
Jomboy figuring out the signs in the breakdown was way more entertaining then watching the pitcher and catcher not get any of their sighs correct and understanding their sequence.
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Pretty sure he actually had the signs down...my old team used to do head turn to the left for curveball and something else for fastball/not being able to read the sign and looked like that’s what he was doing
Fascinating breakdown of not just the cerebral "game within the game" stuff, but also the way pitchers and catchers communicate. I had never noticed how complex those systems of signalling pitches are, you really have to respect all the work catchers must have to put in to master that part of the game. Great stuff.
When I played in college we did “follow the 1 mod 5” which was after the 1, you add up the next numbers until you get 5, and then the next number is the pitch. It was so complicated we had many cross ups, and pitchers doing math on the mound instead of focusing on pitching, so I think it did way more harm than good. Glad I was a position player because I’m not sure I could have done mental math on the mound haha.
Best part of this breakdown is how relevant it will always be to the game. You could pull a clip from 1980 or rewatch this in 2040 and it'll still apply.
Yo JomBoy. LaMonte Wade Jr. (GIANTS)Hit a Splash Hit Homerun over his moms head as she was being filmed. This happened a few games after he injured himself, fouling a ball off his leg and hurting himself as both his parents were in attendance and on camera….HE TOTALLY REDEEMED HIMSELF. Cheesy stuff that I’m sure you’ll get a kick out. Look it up.
Great video, love yaz, people that say baseball is "boring" dont get this part of the game and the depth involved besides throwing and hitting. To me it's what makes it exciting
This was a great breakdown. Learned something new, it was funny and entertaining, and best of all, Jomboy made it. Keep doing more breakdowns like this, showing the finer, more mental parts of the game.
I was a catcher for a while in the eighties and was a batting practice pitcher. We couldn't use cheat sheets we had to keep it in our heads. Pitcher or catcher you have to know the pitch so you don't lose it. As a catcher you use glove motions to correct the pitcher. Pull catches to fool the umpire. You basically can control the field if you do it right.
I mean, it certainly is more friendly towards the pitcher. He doesn't have to freak out about where the runners are, his catcher's signs are ALWAYS being watched. ;D
You know honestly,this was one of my favorite breakdowns. Great insight,great humor,and some advice at the end. Also might be the longest one but never felt like it dragged.
Football season’s coming and ive never watched a full baseball game in my life but jomboy’s breakdowns are fun to watch and ive prolly learned about baseball here than anywhere
I love the funny breakdowns, especially with lip reading, but as someone who likes baseball but doesn't know the ins and outs of playing, I really enjoyed the insight on the signs. More breakdowns with teaching us how to read signs please!
when I was only 13 years old, the year was 1973 we had season tickets for the Angels, back then 10,000 was a full crowd. I learned so much of the game. there is nothing like it. I could hear them talk, and going to 80 games, yes 80 games that year.. it was amazing, plus 7 foul balls in 1 year. life time memory for sure.
WHAT DID YOU LEARN !!!! THREE STRIKES AND YOUR OUT !!!!!! OR THE SONG TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME !!!!!!!!! I HAVE SET IN THE BOX SEATS AT SF AND YOU CAN NOT FUCKING HEAR THEM TALK TO EACH OTHER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO YOU MUST HAVE VOICES IN YOUR HEAD !!!!
@@1414-n5y then pitch better or have better signs, or just have more confidence and don't let the guy get in your head. It's a pretty lame move to get all pissy and in your feelings just because you think a guy might be on to your strategy. Pitcher should prove his worth in his play, not freak out over other guys also trying to win and compete
@@ryanl9224 i mean , i can certainly understand the pitcher frustration. does every man on second try to relay a message to the batter? how often does that happen? i just started getting into baseball more
As a kid when I started little league my dad would always tell me that in baseball there's a lot going on when nothings going on. Of course I didn't get it until I got a little older but once I got into tournament ball and we were using sequences and had cards in our hats for shifts and stuff I understood.
Honestly, as someone who's never watched a game of Baseball, couldn't even name a single baseball player, this is so interesting. I had no idea there was this level of planning and stuff going on.
Wow! No wonder games drag on. Picking signs up from 2B extremely difficult especially when they change them so often. This pitcher was worried more about the runner getting signs than making the pitch. Even if the hitter knows what’s coming, you make a quality pitch you can still get the batter out. Let’s Go, Pick Up the Pace
@4:05 the pitcher wants to change the code. Maybe, the reason the batter didn’t swing is because the ball is in the dirt? If Yaz has the code figured, Yaz is doing nothing to tell the batter...
While I appreciate the lip reading and walk off homer breakdowns, these are the ones that make me really appreciate Jimmy's ability to process the game
What about if a “one” really means curveball and a “three” really means fastball or some similar modification. Are you saying they always use “one” for fastball but just in a different order?
Sometimes it's as simple as the last sign given, but add one. For example, the catcher flashes 1-3-1. The last sign is a 1, but add 1, making it a 2. Curveball.
They should just use asymmetric encryption of signs with a minimum 128 bit cipher to prevent man in the middle attacks. Four fingers map to hexadecimal perfectly. Just sign the binary representation of 4 bit blocks of the public key encrypted pitch.
@@ExtremeSquared I agree, they could also have helmets like QBs do that relay the pitch to them but in a different language every pitch to throw off any intercepting technology
What an amazing breakdown. Playing baseball, I know that there's signs for everything and everyone is doing some kind of sign. But I never pay attention to it too much when watching. Love this kind of stuff
This is the part of baseball that never gets explained to people who are trying to get in to it. But it's just a guy throwing a ball to another guy. Oh sweet Jesus no it is not! Well done Jomboy.
Yep. I just started getting into Baseball a few days ago (through the olympics. I had to learn the rules so I could support my country and actually understand what's going on to some extent) - and that certainly was my impression until watching this video (just a guy throwing a ball.. lol)
I agree. Im personally not a huge baseball fan, but the non verbal communication that they do is slick. The pressure of being a pitcher is nuts and if you let someone in your head it would be so easy to come unraveled trying to throw a ball in various ways accurately and often as hard as they can. Then as a batter to swing I image you have maybe a 1/2 second or so to commit to it and/or stay unflinching if the pitcher buzzes you. Ive never batted at anything like that can the batter read the deliveries as they throw?
@@ricardocardenas5841 the Yankees and Red Sox both received letters saying not to do the apple watch thing, I thought? and as I said elsewhere to another OP on this vid, IIRC, the Giants were using a TELESCOPE in the 1950s, man. That's technology, too. Long history.
@@gfox9295 Nope Red Sox and Astros. And using a telescope isn’t tech 😆. Cheating And stealing signs was always a thing . And every team in mlb has cheated at some point . But that doesn’t excuse them
I attended a Padre game back in the late '70s in which Randy Jones threw a complete came in 92 minutes. In the modern game, one inning can take 40 minutes. 4-hour baseball games with most of the MLB team batting averages below .230 and billion strikeouts has made the game unwatchable
really because there was a sub 1 hour game not even that long ago. Get your golden age fallacy crap outta here lol. Also one inning taking 40 minutes is extremely rare, that hasn't happened in like 20 years
@@Valientlink he’s obviously exaggerating a little but his general point stands. Sit your ass down young man. You probably enjoy watching your team strikeout 10xs a game for the whole season
@@Valientlink uhhhhh I was literally just at a Cubs Brewers game where the eighth inning was about that long. I believe a total of 84 pitches were thrown.
AVG Game Length in 2020: 3:06 BA: .245 AVG Game Length in 1979: 2:35 BA: .265 AVG Game Length in 1928: 1:55 BA: .281 So, it's a long trend but I also wonder how much of it is Ad-breaks.
@@YourHeroA Football and basketball games on TV take ad breaks, not baseball. Baseball doesn't need to provide ad breaks it's inherently built into the game with inning changeovers and bringing in a new pitcher. Thanks for posting the average times. Royals and Rangers played a game last year 4 hours 26 min for 9 innings that's an average of 30 minutes an inning.
please remember us when youre broadcasting on some nationally televised baseball show. seriously, that was some top-notch, A++, prime time breaking down action
This has been a rough season for the Cards man. Two or more starting pitchers out for extended periods, bullpen is worse, and several other injured players (DeJong, Bader, etc.).
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Jomboy gonna get a job offer from the Astros with how good he did at figuring out those signs
As a Yankee fan, I’m pretty sure he’ll piss all over that contract offer like Lou Brown peed over Dorn’s demands.
now he just has to pass a trash can banging test
the funny thing is (un-related to jomboy). I learned a lot of signs through a book about the astros cheating lmao
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Dodgers snd yankees stole signs too
This felt like the longest breakdown Jomboy has ever done.
amir taking on the pirates was longer
Yeah the Amir one was 8 minutes long
This was MEGA inside baseball.
ikr? he seems to like sign reading as much as he likes lipsreading
the harper strickland one was i think 6 minutes but i could be wrong
When the pitcher yells, "shut the fuck up," Thats when you give him a wink and blow him a kiss. Dude would've been shook the rest of the game.
Underrated comment ^^^^
Exactly!!
I see you know how to REALLY piss people off lol
That's what I did to people that gave me the bird when I was driving for a living...always got great reactions..:)
he cannot wink, only blink , but ten dollars cheaper
In 55 yrs of watching baseball, I've never seen a pitcher so damned lost.
i know every of the 27 outs are importqnt but man this is wild and what’s even crazier is it’s only the 2nd inning!
How the hell did he think Yaz had the signs when the Cardinals couldn’t get their own signs together…absolute joke
No clue. Props to Yaz though, he played with the pitcher's paranoia perfectly
My catcher in high school always wanted to throw the same pitch as the previous pitch if it was a strike. Really great guy to hang with but he was not the sharpest billard ball in the rack.
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"Sharpest billiard ball"?
Lol I’m a catcher too. Guess that’s why he didn’t make it past hs? Lol
Since when are billiard balls sharp?
Are... are you calling the entire world dumb? That’s next level.
I love that both players admitted to this instead of just playing ignorant so we know 100% this is what was going on and not just speculating
I have no idea why this doesn't happen more often. If I'm the runner on 2nd, I'm making all sorts of overt (but bullshit) signs to the batter just to get into the pitchers head.
@@justinskywalker Get into the catcher's head, you mean.
@Angry Combat Wombat Baseball....the only sport that people expect you to not play mind games.
@Angry Combat Wombat why would you not play some mindgames in competitive sports? Like seriously, it's part of every sport.
@@TeeIeh mind games are a part of baseball, it’s a strategy not bad sportsmanship
Goddamn seeing how long he was taking on his pitches I would assume this is the 9th inning with the the bases loaded, but then you find out it's the second inning and the pitcher is already balls deep in 47 pitches, like damn dude relax and just pitch.
Yep. About halfway through this vid I looked at the inning and was surprised it was second inning with two outs!
I’m a cardinals fan he’s super young and we shouldn’t have brought him up yet he needs more time to develop but our whole management side and upper people are ass
hes a really young pitcher
This guy never got to pitch above double A and got forced into the majors cause of the covid stuff last season. He's also a really cool guy I got to meet him at a game
@@itsmrew oh yea he seems really chill he just needs more time to develop and being at the Major league level rn and not getting a win yet is gonna destroy his confidence
I learned so much more about baseball in 8 minutes than I have my entire life. Next time I go to a game, I'll definitely keep this all in mind.
There are so many things going on with almost every single pitch - especially with runners on base. I hate that most people can’t see that, once you start noticing all the small things is when baseball gets entertaining. If ya blink ya might miss it
Make sure you get center field seats 😃
Sorry, long long long reply to this comment, but if you avid fan of the sport how you not understand every pitch is like a chess moves. I'm English played cricket, it the same in that sport each ball is chess move, to try out wit the batsman for an easier out
Watching baseball from young, ofc there's a reason for all the calling of pitches, the shaking off, nodding, signals etc - just confused why it was such a revelation when you say 'entire life' - no agro tho ❤
@@hiimmatt94 That's because I'm not a sports fan lol. I always figured there was SOME sort of method to their madness, but wasn't sure what it was.
As a college catcher, I would have a code change with sliding my glove in the dirt or placing my hand on my chest protector like I am adjusting it. Maybe toss a pebble or some dirt down first or 3rd base line. Lots of things, but never thought of using "out plus one" or "out number" as the indicator. That is awesome. Wish I would have thought of that one.
I used to get my auld fella out and signal with that.
@@BigRamifications you don't sound overly yank!
I actually was one of the first coaches to implement the out plus one awhile back now just came to me at dinner one night next thing I know buncha fuckin teams using it man should’ve patented it I guess lol
@Nick Paul Sometimes I think all of this just gets in the pitcher's head and instead of getting in a rhythm, he is over-thinking -- literally the worst thing a pitcher should be doing. Just have the catcher giving signs with an initiate/indicator and confirmation sign... This is why sometimes three football coaches will give offensive/defensive calls (not so much in the NFL because each team has one player on the field with an audio receiver.) Similar to how third-base coaches give signs.
Bumping the pitch could also be hard to decipher: 2 fastball, 3 offspead, 4 other fastball/slider, 1 changeup/other special pitch. Just keep it easy for a pitcher to stay in rhythm.
@nickpaul241 no i came up with it a couple years ago at longhorn steakhouse after i took my little league team there, their parents mustve told the MLB
that was an incredible breakdown
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Good cure for insomnia.
woah lifestyle travel vlogs? NEVER seen that before
It’s what we do here at Jomboy emporium
can we just appreciate Yaz for a minute? runnin around in that pitcher’s head for days 😂
Yeah but he didn’t -so……
@@cathyv3424 that’s the point. got him thinking. just ask Yogi: “95% of baseball is half mental”
@@WavesofJava I get it - what I am saying though it didn’t get to him the rest of the time he was pitching.
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@@cathyv3424 well yeah, most pitchers are able to shake off stuff btwn innings or even btwn batters. How else could you give up a HR and still go out and pitch a good inning later, which we see all the time. Yaz was messing him up in that at-bat, and with 2 outs and him being in scoring position, anything that might let wilmer get a mistake pitch to drive is important.
If espn would do more of this I’d actually like to watch baseball.
Too busy pandering wokeness.
@@I_like_turtles_67 ha! Great comment.
Right? ESPN's "analysis" is downright insipid sometimes.
ESPN couldn't find their ass with both hands.
ESPN doesn’t care about baseball they have the opportunity to make the game grow it’s sad
Ump needs to just call a ball in this situation. Throw a freaking pitch.
You got your wish. Hope you enjoy more pissed off pitchers and batters.
@@balbarith45 Seriously. We're going to need a "restoration" of baseball one of these days, back to what it used to be, when players played for the love of the game and the fans watched because it was the pastime. It might even be happening right now in people's back yards: I'm enjoying watching MLW Wiffle Ball more than MLB nowadays.
MLB added a pitching timer this year for this exact reason lol
Yep, can't do that anymore... you got 20 seconds or it's a ball... Batter has to get their butt ready as well. Watching Ortiz for years re-strap the 500 pieces of velcro he had drove me nuts. I don't care how good he was, it was infuriating to watch.
48 pitches in the first 2 innings! Definitely a good time for Yaz to get in his head.
Man can’t bat nore than 220
This is one of the best breakdowns lol. Great mix of comedy and baseball insight
He didn’t break anything
Where's the comedy
That's pretty much all of jomboy's videos
Do a vid on how the dbacks choked against the giants in the 9th inning
I hate being a dbacks fan haha
@@InsaneD602 thanks for Escobar btw
That was wild! Kris Bryant looked like the guy we hoped he would be. And Wade was so clutch. 🔥
No. Don’t do that one. We’re good.
@@InsaneD602 suffer
If you really know baseball, you know that there's a lot going on when nothing's going on...
Thank you! Man I'm in my late 20s and have been a baseball fan all my life thanks to my dad. I get so pissed reading some of the comments on here bc they are all "bAsEbAlL iS bOrInG i OnLy WaTcH wHaT jOmBoY pOsTS" blah blah blah. I know they only say it thinking jomboy will reply lmao but it's still sad to see. Baseball is the greatest sport ever invented!
Not only within a game but also all the storylines that get created throughout the season. There's just so many details to keep in mind. It's really fun once you get a grasp of your own team, but when you look at the whole league it's a huge soap opera. We went from Dodgers vs. Padres to so much more. Giants, Astros, Red Sox, Mets, Phillies, Brewers. How Atlanta and Cardinals were supposed to win their divisions. Cubs and Nats sold their championship team. Shohei, Vladdy Jr, Tatis Jr, Bauer, Miggy so on and so on. Enjoy the season guys, i know i will from my own little corner
@@jerrygomez3825 poetically said dear fellow
Yastrzemski was looking sharply to his left for breaking balls.
Absolutely correct we’ll said
This breakdown is so good because I was totally invested in the art of signs and sign stealing and then the “stfu” totally caught me off guard
I remember a clip of Jake Peavy pitching for the Giants a few years ago. He was a veteran at the end of his career, known for being "intense" on the mound, and his catcher was an emergency rookie callup (at least one of the regulars was injured, maybe both).
He got so exasperated with the rookie not calling the right pitch that finally he just yelled it to him.
I recall that, prior to Buster Posey, the Giants had a game where BOTH of their catchers had to come out of the game due to injury, so Pedro Feliz, normally at third or moved to left when Bonds wasn't playing, strapped on the gear and caught a few innings. Supposedly Pedro had some experience as a kid behind the plate, so he wasn't completely lost.
would that be in youtube? l'd love to see it
My team used a cool sign method. Catcher lays first sign and then you add 1 for every sign he shows after that. Say I throw 3 pitches: 1 = fastball, 2 = curve, 3 = change. Catcher flashes 2, 2, 2. The pitch is fastball. Start at 2, then there are 2 more signs shown. So go from 2 to 3 and start back over at 1. So simple, but so hard to crack.
I could envision some pitchers having a hard time with this one. "Let's see, that was 2+3+1+4. That's uh, 10, divide by 3, that leaves a remainder of 1....wait, why are you calling time?"
Ummm ok
Maybe I’m just an idiot but that made no sense
How tf is 2 2 2 fastball im lost lmao
Damn the catcher would have to be very speedy at math for that, not only does he have to know which pitch he wants to land on, he also has to come up with the amount of signs he has to show the pitcher so the pitcher can figure that out, on the fly after every pitch, damn
Catcher: ok I want him to throw a curve ball, I’ll show 4 signs, and he has to land on 2, which means I need to start on, ummm, hm, let’s see here, if I start on 1, thats 2,3,1, ok that’s not it, that means I need to start 2, ok so my sequence will be 2,3,1,1. Let’s hope to god he throws this curve ball
That’s one pitch lmao
This must have been the longest inning lmao this dude really did just need to relax and throw a pitch
bottom of the 2nd and already 47 pitches.
for real this is why the games average 3.5 hours... everybody screams "let's fuckin' goooo!" until it's time to do something, then it's "let's fuckin' wait, reset, wait, check something, step off, not feeling it, okay, nah wait again, discuss it, etc."
@@daedalus_20v ok...ok...I got it. Shit I dont got it
@aDg 2k18 I disagree with that, I think most sports have that chess match on the micro level if you know what to look for
@aDg 2k18 yeah I too love grown adults not able to establish and relay a code for hours. While waiting for a minute or two of action. Sick!
Seahawks should have ran the ball
Wrong video comment section 😂
Still relevant today.
When I’m tired but can’t sleep I go through the list a Super Bowls in my head. I probably would have done that if I were at this game waiting for the next pitch.
There is a certain weird logic to it. I remember that because I remember that first the Broncos needed to get redemption for what happened against the Seahawks. Then the Seahawks needed their punishment.
I love it when I come across comments like this. Thanks for the laugh.
"what, I'm not doing anything!" XD that's hilarious
Jomboy figuring out the signs in the breakdown was way more entertaining then watching the pitcher and catcher not get any of their sighs correct and understanding their sequence.
Mike Krukow did not like this rookie barking at Yaz. I remember watching the Giants broadcast and he was pretty fired up.
He's not a rookie. This is Oviedo's second season.
Mike Krukow was a great pitcher. Remember going to Dodger stadium and watch him pitch. Go Cubs!
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@Danmann6669 he sure acted like a rook
"That's bush..."
Yastrzemski is known to be pretty good at deciphering signs on second. Pitchers really don't like when he's on second.
Thanks. That answers two of the questions that I posted above.
Sounds like hes good at bluffing
@@adventuresoulz Might be, but it’s pretty smart to do that too. Clearly it gets in the pitcher’s head.
One hell of a poker player too
Pretty sure he actually had the signs down...my old team used to do head turn to the left for curveball and something else for fastball/not being able to read the sign and looked like that’s what he was doing
Jomboy definitely has one of the best fanbases despite growing his channel so quickly
Yeah but... Jake Sucks!!
Their Jomboy and Jake channel too! Lots of regulars in the comment sections
Yeah we are all great. High fives everyone!
@@WalkoffGrandslam Jake is the Hot Fudge Sundae to Jomboys Banana Split.
Not really your gay af
Fascinating breakdown of not just the cerebral "game within the game" stuff, but also the way pitchers and catchers communicate. I had never noticed how complex those systems of signalling pitches are, you really have to respect all the work catchers must have to put in to master that part of the game. Great stuff.
This is why they put in the pitch clock lol
When I played in college we did “follow the 1 mod 5” which was after the 1, you add up the next numbers until you get 5, and then the next number is the pitch. It was so complicated we had many cross ups, and pitchers doing math on the mound instead of focusing on pitching, so I think it did way more harm than good. Glad I was a position player because I’m not sure I could have done mental math on the mound haha.
God bless Jomboy explaining things for the people like me that know NOTHING about baseball but are obsessed with his breakdowns
My boyfriend loves baseball and showed me this channel. I'm trying to learn more about the sport through jomboy :)
Do you want 2 boyfriends
So wholesome
@@RickRaisin16 brotha..
@@RickRaisin16 bruh😂😂
Congrats
found this channel recently. I laugh harder at the narration in these than any videos I've watched online.
Best part of this breakdown is how relevant it will always be to the game. You could pull a clip from 1980 or rewatch this in 2040 and it'll still apply.
Well, not so much now with the electronic signs.
Yo JomBoy. LaMonte Wade Jr. (GIANTS)Hit a Splash Hit Homerun over his moms head as she was being filmed. This happened a few games after he injured himself, fouling a ball off his leg and hurting himself as both his parents were in attendance and on camera….HE TOTALLY REDEEMED HIMSELF. Cheesy stuff that I’m sure you’ll get a kick out. Look it up.
You know it’s gonna be a good breakdown when it’s getting hyped up in the first 20 seconds
The pitcher didn’t say STFU. He said “you have the best record in baseball and we suck”
I went to a game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis once. Saw Ozzy Smith do his backflips to enter the game. That was cool.
Are you a Cardinals fan? If you are, no way you spell Ozzie’s name like that lmao
He’s the one who sings Crazy Train right?
@@HOXtxrangers that’s Ozzy Osbourne
@@HOXtxrangers lmao
I flip for Atari
best part always is when Jomboy uses his voice in place of the players speaking
Great video, love yaz, people that say baseball is "boring" dont get this part of the game and the depth involved besides throwing and hitting. To me it's what makes it exciting
Playing baseball is awesome because all of this, but watching baseball IS boring bc its so hard to see any of this.
This was a great breakdown. Learned something new, it was funny and entertaining, and best of all, Jomboy made it. Keep doing more breakdowns like this, showing the finer, more mental parts of the game.
4:25
''..What's five? I just chose it.. ''
Pure gold. Thank you.
Great job! Yaz had that pitcher thinking about things not related to pitching. I wish the batter had hit a homer to see a good meltdown.
"nice little high five, I put that in slow mo cuz I LIKED IT. Gentlemanly, high five" 😂 u funny af bruh
I was a catcher for a while in the eighties and was a batting practice pitcher. We couldn't use cheat sheets we had to keep it in our heads. Pitcher or catcher you have to know the pitch so you don't lose it.
As a catcher you use glove motions to correct the pitcher. Pull catches to fool the umpire. You basically can control the field if you do it right.
I’ve found a garbage can works best for this
BANG BANG*
I mean, it certainly is more friendly towards the pitcher. He doesn't have to freak out about where the runners are, his catcher's signs are ALWAYS being watched. ;D
Go Astro's haha!
I was actually at this game, I think I was getting garlic fries when this happened though lmao.
Laleb
They are good
Caleb gets it!
Good timing with all the non-pitching going on
Smart man
You know honestly,this was one of my favorite breakdowns. Great insight,great humor,and some advice at the end. Also might be the longest one but never felt like it dragged.
This is awesome. I never really played baseball after tee ball because I thought it was boring but these break downs help a ton.
I’ve learned more about baseball from your videos. Thank you! This is awesome.
Football season’s coming and ive never watched a full baseball game in my life but jomboy’s breakdowns are fun to watch and ive prolly learned about baseball here than anywhere
Jomboy- guesses every sign right and breaks down the code
*Astros would like to know your location*
I love the funny breakdowns, especially with lip reading, but as someone who likes baseball but doesn't know the ins and outs of playing, I really enjoyed the insight on the signs. More breakdowns with teaching us how to read signs please!
when I was only 13 years old, the year was 1973 we had season tickets for the Angels, back then 10,000 was a full crowd. I learned so much of the game. there is nothing like it. I could hear them talk, and going to 80 games, yes 80 games that year.. it was amazing, plus 7 foul balls in 1 year. life time memory for sure.
WHAT DID YOU LEARN !!!! THREE STRIKES AND YOUR OUT !!!!!! OR THE SONG TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME !!!!!!!!!
I HAVE SET IN THE BOX SEATS AT SF AND YOU CAN NOT FUCKING HEAR THEM TALK TO EACH OTHER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO YOU MUST HAVE VOICES IN YOUR HEAD !!!!
@@mefirst4266 u ok fam?
Great breakdown, but I’m really going to need you do some more of that peekaboo with your face more. Absolutely brightens my day.
Jomboy has taught me so much about baseball that I didn't know. Thank you guys.
i was at this game it was really weird to see it because i was really confused but now it makes so much sense
Switched to sling and can barely find any games. Thank you Jomboy it’s pretty much all the baseball I can get right now
I’ve been thinking about dropping Hulu, but it comes through with the sports. Thank you for the Sling report.
Mlb66. You’re welcome
@@radtech21 yes sir
Love the content, never thought I’d be into these breakdown videos but it’s just to interesting
What do you mean “Yaz was guessing pitches” Jomboy was guessing pitches. Impressive
Pitchers are absolutely adorable with their fragile little feelings. So cute...
Yeah, it's almost like their livelihood depends on their performance.
@@theJohnGaltLine Hahaha
its almost like he doesnt want the guy on 2nd giving the guy hitting advantages , hes trying to win lol
@@1414-n5y then pitch better or have better signs, or just have more confidence and don't let the guy get in your head. It's a pretty lame move to get all pissy and in your feelings just because you think a guy might be on to your strategy. Pitcher should prove his worth in his play, not freak out over other guys also trying to win and compete
@@ryanl9224 i mean , i can certainly understand the pitcher frustration. does every man on second try to relay a message to the batter? how often does that happen? i just started getting into baseball more
Giants are the best team in baseball 🔥🔥🔥
No doubt smoking on that dback pack🚬
Are they?
Imagine if they ever started texting signs 😆
These are great! Love the funny analysis
I love this guy especially when he reads the lips of the players. Awesome!
You need to break down the Braves cardinals game they walked like 4 batters in a row!!
Cards did?
How wtf
I was telling my gf this while it was happening 😅
@@lbrad2001 mother f lol. My cards had so much potential this year but have shit the bed. Kinda glad I haven’t had time to watch em
@@_will795 they’re absolutely horrible with all the injuries, id advise to just not watch much till Flaherty and Mikolas get healthy and come back
LMAO... Yas, admitting he was simply messing with the pitcher. Love it.
LET'S GO GIANTS!!!!!
🤘😆🤘
All that for a pop out 😂 great job messing with him.
Yas looked guilty as hell when the pitcher called him out lmao I love it 😂😂😂
Awesome break down. I knew there was a language going on there. Had no idea. Going to see games now in a different lens. Thank you!!
Thank goodness for the pitch clock....Damn foolishness...Just throw the ball!
As a kid when I started little league my dad would always tell me that in baseball there's a lot going on when nothings going on. Of course I didn't get it until I got a little older but once I got into tournament ball and we were using sequences and had cards in our hats for shifts and stuff I understood.
Honestly, as someone who's never watched a game of Baseball, couldn't even name a single baseball player, this is so interesting. I had no idea there was this level of planning and stuff going on.
Pitcher: “STFU!”
*Trash can banging noise intensifies*
Who else here so happy about the introduction of the pitch clock
Hello hi im one of the managers of the Houston Astros we wanna offer jonboy a contract we love what your doing eith the codes 🥶🥶
If a catcher and pitcher aren’t in sync it must get emotionally exhausting
These are my favorite Jomboy breakdowns. Yeah, "first base coach throws hat in dirt in front of ump" is OK, but these are really fun.
JOMBOY, JOMBOY, EVERYONE NEEDS A JOMBOY!!!!
I hate baseball but I love this channel. That pitcher was absolutely terrified and it showed. 😂🤣😂
Wow! No wonder games drag on. Picking signs up from 2B extremely difficult especially when they change them so often. This pitcher was worried more about the runner getting signs than making the pitch. Even if the hitter knows what’s coming, you make a quality pitch you can still get the batter out. Let’s Go, Pick Up the Pace
Pitching clocks are coming for the 2023 season so your wish has been granted !
This is why we call baseball players the "Boys of Summer." - "I don't know what their signs are, but I'll make them think that I do."
The nuance and depth of game within the game Jomboy breakdowns are incredible treasures.... So much to notice!
It's like the matrix...
I absolutely LOVED this!!! Yaz is a fun guy to watch
@4:05 the pitcher wants to change the code. Maybe, the reason the batter didn’t swing is because the ball is in the dirt?
If Yaz has the code figured, Yaz is doing nothing to tell the batter...
While I appreciate the lip reading and walk off homer breakdowns, these are the ones that make me really appreciate Jimmy's ability to process the game
What about if a “one” really means curveball and a “three” really means fastball or some similar modification. Are you saying they always use “one” for fastball but just in a different order?
Sometimes it's as simple as the last sign given, but add one. For example, the catcher flashes 1-3-1. The last sign is a 1, but add 1, making it a 2. Curveball.
Whatever they do it has to be something super simple for them, or they're likely to fuck things up.
Catchers should call pitches like QBs.
“OMAHA!”
Curve incoming or fastball. Or maybe a change. Omaha.
They should just use asymmetric encryption of signs with a minimum 128 bit cipher to prevent man in the middle attacks. Four fingers map to hexadecimal perfectly. Just sign the binary representation of 4 bit blocks of the public key encrypted pitch.
@@ExtremeSquared I agree, they could also have helmets like QBs do that relay the pitch to them but in a different language every pitch to throw off any intercepting technology
What an amazing breakdown. Playing baseball, I know that there's signs for everything and everyone is doing some kind of sign. But I never pay attention to it too much when watching. Love this kind of stuff
this was really fun to watch thank you
Thank you Jomboy, the way you can relate it all together. I like the way you say what people are thinking, reminds you that we're all human
This is the part of baseball that never gets explained to people who are trying to get in to it. But it's just a guy throwing a ball to another guy. Oh sweet Jesus no it is not! Well done Jomboy.
Yep. I just started getting into Baseball a few days ago (through the olympics. I had to learn the rules so I could support my country and actually understand what's going on to some extent) - and that certainly was my impression until watching this video (just a guy throwing a ball.. lol)
I agree. Im personally not a huge baseball fan, but the non verbal communication that they do is slick. The pressure of being a pitcher is nuts and if you let someone in your head it would be so easy to come unraveled trying to throw a ball in various ways accurately and often as hard as they can. Then as a batter to swing I image you have maybe a 1/2 second or so to commit to it and/or stay unflinching if the pitcher buzzes you. Ive never batted at anything like that can the batter read the deliveries as they throw?
Oh wow . I thought this was about a Astros game or something .
Strangely, all 30 teams would like to know what the other pitcher is gonna do.
@@gfox9295 only 2 teams did it using tech 0:
@@ricardocardenas5841 the Yankees and Red Sox both received letters saying not to do the apple watch thing, I thought?
and as I said elsewhere to another OP on this vid, IIRC, the Giants were using a TELESCOPE in the 1950s, man. That's technology, too. Long history.
@@gfox9295 Nope Red Sox and Astros. And using a telescope isn’t tech 😆. Cheating And stealing signs was always a thing . And every team in mlb has cheated at some point . But that doesn’t excuse them
@@ricardocardenas5841 never said it did. Technology doesn't only mean computers, man.
I attended a Padre game back in the late '70s in which Randy Jones threw a complete came in 92 minutes. In the modern game, one inning can take 40 minutes. 4-hour baseball games with most of the MLB team batting averages below .230 and billion strikeouts has made the game unwatchable
really because there was a sub 1 hour game not even that long ago. Get your golden age fallacy crap outta here lol. Also one inning taking 40 minutes is extremely rare, that hasn't happened in like 20 years
@@Valientlink he’s obviously exaggerating a little but his general point stands. Sit your ass down young man. You probably enjoy watching your team strikeout 10xs a game for the whole season
@@Valientlink uhhhhh I was literally just at a Cubs Brewers game where the eighth inning was about that long. I believe a total of 84 pitches were thrown.
AVG Game Length in 2020: 3:06 BA: .245
AVG Game Length in 1979: 2:35 BA: .265
AVG Game Length in 1928: 1:55 BA: .281
So, it's a long trend but I also wonder how much of it is Ad-breaks.
@@YourHeroA Football and basketball games on TV take ad breaks, not baseball. Baseball doesn't need to provide ad breaks it's inherently built into the game with inning changeovers and bringing in a new pitcher. Thanks for posting the average times. Royals and Rangers played a game last year 4 hours 26 min for 9 innings that's an average of 30 minutes an inning.
the way the voice over is perfectly timed on the first stfu caught me so off guard🤣
please remember us when youre broadcasting on some nationally televised baseball show. seriously, that was some top-notch, A++, prime time breaking down action
Do a breakdown of the Giants’ comeback
The signs they were doing at the end wasn’t the numbers haha. It was catcher glove location. Hand on knee for fastball and glove on ground for breaker
This has been a rough season for the Cards man. Two or more starting pitchers out for extended periods, bullpen is worse, and several other injured players (DeJong, Bader, etc.).
This isn't aging well lol
@@littlehumor4290 came here for this comment. I think they've managed to turn it around, just slightly.. ;)
@@alexn78666 ya they are on fire right now, can make history today!
And because of that, we got the Pitch Clock
Bro I was waiting WEEKS for this😂😂