First I’ve ever heard of a hidden no-hitter. One of my favorite random stats is no hitters that still resulted in a loss, since I watched the Andy Hawkins one live
https://www.mlb.com/amp/news/pitchers-to-throw-no-hitter-and-lose.html
One of the worst ever was Rich Hill in 2017 who had a perfect game going into the ninth before it was ruined by an error, and the Dodgers didnt score any runs so it went into the 10th where Hill gave up a walk off homer.
I mean the term pretty much means you’ve walked some dudes over 27 batters but not allowed a hit to mix in with it. Definitely a niche term.
I mean if you walk the bases loaded and then induce 3 ground balls/pop-up outs… no one is raving about your half inning performance. If you do that across 7-innings or so… then it would be a hidden no-hitter. I don’t know.
Usually refers to doing it over multiple games, such as a reliever having 9 straight one inning appearances with no hits. With the dominance of today’s bullpens…meh.
I’ve seen this sentiment expressed by other prospect and draft analysts too, not just Law. And for at least 10 years. Wondering what the reason for it is.
They’ve always been hypercritical of our approach to hitting. Too small ball, although I thought our approach changed last year. Not sure what the issue is with the pitching as I remember Law being high on Dickinson when he was hired.
Law in particular has always had a hate boner for us, even through staff and approach changes. Hated Kuhn making every pitcher do ‘The Squat’ (was kinda valid for this), hated that by his measures we put too much stress on our pitchers’ arms (but didn’t have similar critiques towards Mike Fox at UNC or Pat Casey at Oregon State for doing even worse at their programs), and generally speaking isn’t a fan of the approach KMac takes with his hitters. It’s not just the small ball that we utilize, it’s how aggressive we tend to be early in counts and how evened out our hitters’ swings are. He’s all about launch angles, doesn’t like the line drive approach we take or the way we teach our guys to hold the bat in the box. Thinks that every player who comes out of our program has an immediate learning curve in the minors, despite us being top 5 in the country for players currently on a major league roster.
I don’t know what his deal is or why over the years he’s made it a mission to single us out so much when evaluating the draft, but it is what it is.
Yeah, when I was referring to small ball approach, I was including the launch angle stuff. That seems to be the biggest bugaboo with the prospect people. I’m just not sure if we still do that stuff though. We seemed to change last year, but that could have just been the players.
I remember scouts talking negatively about the Stanford swing for years.
I just looked to see who’s on the baseball schedule this weekend and realized we were scheduled @FSU for Thursday, Friday, Saturday. All games were canceled, which is understandable. I’m guessing our guys were already down there when the shooting happened yesterday, though? Has anyone heard anything? Not expecting they were in that area of campus, but, still. Just a terrible, heartbreaking situation, as we know too well.
Yes they were already down there but are safe and accounted for.
Believe they were flying home today at some point.
The game thread has some details courtesy of @chavlicek15.