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On Wednesday afternoon, Paul scenes and Jacob Misiorowski met in probably the most thrilling pitching matchups of the season up to now. Skenes is the perfect pitcher in baseball, whereas Misiorowski is the hardest-throwing starter. It was must-see TV. Michael Baumann coated the occasion in probably the most Baumann approach potential, specializing in its hugeness — actually. “As impressed as I used to be with this show of firepower, awe at the way forward for pitching was not my major takeaway. No, watching Skenes and Misiorowski do battle made me really feel uneasy,” Baumann wrote. “See, these guys are large.” He adopted these phrases up with certainly one of my favourite paragraphs within the illustrious annals of baseball writing:
That is too large. Each of them. The trendy baseball area was designed for Scots-Irish immigrants with dangerous childhood diet and kidney illness. When 5-foot-11 Honus Wagner was the most important, strongest participant within the league. Should you instructed the founding fathers of baseball that at some point ballplayers would get so large they couldn’t borrow pants from Dave Bautista… properly to begin with, I suppose you’d have to elucidate Dave Bautista to Abner Doubleday and Alexander Cartwright. You get my level.
I’m not going to jot down in regards to the Skenes-Misiorowski matchup. What extra might I presumably add? As an alternative, I’ll start this week’s mailbag by answering a query about Misiorowski’s earth-shattering velocity. Earlier than I do, although, I’d prefer to remind all of you that whereas anybody can submit a query, this mailbag is unique to FanGraphs Members. Should you aren’t but a Member and want to preserve studying, you’ll be able to join a Membership right here. It’s one of the simplest ways to each expertise the positioning and help our employees, and it comes with a bunch of different nice advantages. Additionally, for those who’d prefer to ask a query for subsequent week’s mailbag, ship me an e-mail at mailbag@fangraphs.com.
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