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That would break baseball.

Jon Bois, do this episode. Right now.

I'm dead 😂😂

Barry Bonds would never strike out again.

don't forget dick padden

@@cheesyrevenge lololol

If you don't know now ya know

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If that’s your takeaway from these videos, perhaps this type of content is not for you. Which is fine. Some of us simply like a “different” sports story. Others are fascinated by statistical anamolies. Baseball history/stat buffs adore this type of content- outliers in a sea of the mundane.

Foolish Baseball no respect for my boy Tim

My new favorite weird baseball player

That's some amazing timing

Foolish Baseball and Jon Bois collab?

@@samwalker6765 I've never wanted anything more, then get Jomboy to do a breakdown of the collab

Expecting a major DTCU crossover movie at some point

Memeo Supremo into the dorktown-verse

Jon Bois Cinematic Universe.

We live in a Dorktown Universe

This one probably should have been an episode of High Score though.

Take an idea that isn't really interesting And then narrate it with details and precision till the point that Now Every person named Bob is special to me and I hope that everyone of them could be pro athletes

Thanongrit Suriyarungka I feel Bob in my veins now

Oh man. Check out Summoning Salt, he'll tell you the history of speed running in a video game you've never heard of and you'll be cheering by the end. It's wild stuff.

@@LeoStaley Watched a lot of Summoning Salt and Bois is on a different level from that

couldn't agree more, summoning salt is great but Jon has such a unique style, he is undisputedly the best (maybe the best on the entire platform? i cant think of anyone better). just reading 17776/20020 confirms that for me@@gregorkorosec6131

4 years later and you are correct, it’s beautiful.

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BONEYMALL!

You mean Peter Brand

Scout: Alright, so he gets hit a lot. Billy: He gets on base a lot, do I care if he gets hit or gets a hit?

Gah, you beat me to it!

Just wait until he plays a full season

Foolish BB!

@@hiimemily Tim Locastro already beat you to it.

Matthew “we interrupt this to show you Tim Locastro racing Albert Pujols again…”

I... damn it. Yeah, need to do it too.

You'll be glad you did.

Jon Bois truly is a man of the people

Mista! Mista!

Guyer's body*

It's a combination of crowding the plate (not as much as Rizzo, but close) and not bothering to avoid inside pitches. His HBP rate went down considerably after his move from the Rays to the Indians, indicating the Rays' heightened preference for Sabermetrics and OBP. Since he wasn't a starter, him getting injured from a HBP wasn't a big deal to the organization. I thought there was a rule that a batter must make a good-faith attempt to avoid getting hit by a pitch to count as a HBP. Clearly during Guyer's stint this rule was not enforced.

Nah, I expect players will be somewhat subtle in choosing when to hit them. Somewhere in the middle innings with nobody on base and an out or two, or something like that. Looks less suspicious.

@@kyletucker3811 why would they ve subtle? Nobody, including the MLB, has any respect for the Astros whatsoever

@@BrandonA1 To avoid punishment. Just because you don't respect or like someone doesn't mean you are willing to get suspended over it. The MLB has basically said they're going to punish pitchers intentionally hitting batters this season. They're looking for an intentional hit. So you have to make it look unintentional. That's just common sense for someone that isn't looking for a suspension.

When?

Nah, I think the umps will overlook the first dozen, every game.

Give Acuña the $10,000

This sounds like a title made by the onion

@@traberburns It's a Simpsons reference...

*doink* Ooooooh!!

Ow! My balls!

foolish baseball and jon bois collab?

Hmmmmm?

Locastro has too few at bats to be in it (224). With that said, Locastro gets hit by pitches slightly more per 162 games that Guyer. This might be skewed by sample size though

He better be.

Exactly my thoughts when I got this notification.

Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing? Wait that doesn't work here.

ya but u dont just get walked, you draw walks by being a good hitter and pitch reader

Hey, Guyer did hit a double off Aroldis Chapman in Game 7 of the World Series.

What you don’t know, is that Guyer is one of the strongest people in the world. He knows he can’t hit. So he trains his leg muscles so hard they are like steel, and he can absorb 100mph pitches like they are like nothing.

​@@gj1234567899999Dang it Guyer, you're not fooling me. Everytime someone talks about you, you gotta load up a sock puppet and start pontificating on how strong your legs are and how "they feel like steel wrapped in leather" or how its like "walking on tree trunks." Brandon, you got a problem man. It's one thing to be proud - it's another to be so weird about your own legs.

Look up Foolish Baseball on KZfaq and watch his most recent video and his whole channel is worth while if you enjoy baseball content

And here I am talking Ron Hunt and that one terrible Cubs manager.

@@chriswalkey2050 Already do actually he's great!

You took the words outta my mouth... Go ASTROS

@C R yeah in his later years. But unlike this guy he also had tons of 1B, 2B, 3B, and HR while still amassing 3 shy of the dead ball era record.

Yeah but it's boring

Also the way no hitters hit for contact any more because it statistically isn't worthwhile

That’s not really about the pitching, it’s more about hitting approach. Guys are more often than not going up to the plate looking for hard hits and a certain launch angle. When you’re more concerned about perfect home run environment than just making solid contact, you’re gonna strike out a lot more than you get hits.

ArmadilloLover99 what is interesting though is that the overall hit rate isn’t declining that much, which suggests that what’s declining in favour of strikeouts are fly outs and ground outs.

Sergeant Pickles That makes sense because ground balls in general are on the decline, especially since the strategy for beating infield shifts has become hitting the ball over the shift rather than through its holes. As far as fly outs, that can also be attributed to the launch angle revolution as due to that, a lot of the balls that used to be warning track outs have become homers or doubles off the wall.

I think I remember that game. The announcers were so steamed up about it and were trying to figure out what rule he broke

@@PlaySA Turns out he didn't break any rule. He just sticks his elbow out until it sticks more than a third of the way into the strike zone. Dietrich is a weird player in his own right.

according to baseball reference, he was HBP in 8.17% of his 306 PA this year, too. Not sure why he wasn't included in that graph

Nick Wagner same thing with Tim locastro

Thing with Dietrich is, Guyer takes his hit and goes to first base. Dietrich takes his hit (which is usually a strike anyway and shouldn't count as a HBP) and tries to fight half the other team. That's why Guyer is an amusing outlier, and Dietrich is a prick.

#MeToo

Same I led the league in on base percentage with only like 10 hits

I’m glad I’m not the only one with this experience. Although I was also a foot taller than everyone on my team (including the coaches), so that might’ve been a part of it.

I was better at beaning kids back than got thrown out in 3 pitches once with 2 beans

One year, in my freshman year of high school, I was able to have a .400 OBP, many of them through HBP, without ever getting a hit that season. If that isn’t strange, I don’t what is. I couldn’t hit for my life, but I was still able to play baseball, because I could draw BBs, get HBP, and steal bases at will. I, in no exaggeration, had no other marketable baseball skills. I admit I was terrible, but it was my ability to get BBs and get hit, that allowed me to play longer than I should have.

We aint ready

The whole reason I watched this! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rruhd6iAl67QqJ8.html

I probably scrolled 3 minutes to try and find someone else who wanted to talk about pantuso

I found an article called "bruises for bases" from MLB's own website. Essentially it's his stride before he swings, combined with an instinctual inability to get away from lower, inside pitches. He also states he doesn't want to change anything because it would affect his batting which is somewhat believable. I'd say it's 6 to one, half dozen to the other. Other than the bruises, it's not hurting anything, so why change?

@@user-eb4vs6si1n Everything you just said plus I suspect he was bad at hitting inside pitches, so pitchers tried to pitch him inside a lot.

That's a large sample size

That's the difference between Foolish Baseball and Jon imo. Jon finds the interesting happenstances and shares them like they are, letting them tell the story on their own, whereas Foolish Baseball pursues and even "invents" them, sometimes exaggerating for storytelling effect. Both are fun and cool in their own way!

@@rebeccatrishel considering a full season is 162 games and an average player has multiple at bats per game.. no it's not

@@solsticelacer We're calculating the percentage of at bats that he's been hit by pitch, right? We could math this

Solstice is 100% correct. See what small sample size did to Jeff Francoeur.

Enjoy your freshly found Jon Bois addiction

Same here.. Funny how that works out.

has he seen this video?

Same. I expected to see a lot of ground covered on Biggio and Rizzo.

When I saw the title to this video I was certain it was about Craig Biggio. He was Hit By Pitch 2nd most all time at 285, just 2 shy of the 1st held by Hughie Jennings at 287. They mention Jennings in this video, but his career ended in 1918, before the “live ball era”. Biggio is far and away the all time leader in the live ball era in his 20 year HOF career. I mean, he didn’t have to get hit by pitches, because he’s actually one of the greats! But, he still “took one for the team” because he wants to get on base at all costs & he’s tough as nails. He can’t even get a S/O or a mention? They mention Tommy Tucker who is 3rd on the all time list & his career ended in 1899. They mention Minnie Minoso who is 10th on the all time list with a 20 year career. smh. DO BETTER DORKTOWN!

Not likely, now...because of things.

There's always 2021

@@woods1one yeah that didn’t work out either

Their best players would need to leave for that to happen.

@@Ofallthings089 if like 2 more leave I'm all for it. The Howie section is gonna be godly

They are still in the midst of a 7-peat division winning streak.

@@lovelessissimo if they never end up winning a world series it's kinda all for nothing though. If the braves never won a world series in the 90s that whole era would be looked at as a failure of sorts

@@westinmcclister1507 I see what you mean, but when a team is winning 106 games during the regular season, it's hard to call it a collapse. A choking marathon, yes. Collapse, not yet.

Biggio was hit on 2.3% of his regular season plate appearances in his career... look at the chart at 4:44 and see where that puts him. His highest single season percentage was 4.6%. See where that would land him on the chart at 6:38. The conclusion is that yes, Biggio got hit more than the average player and a huge number of times in total (because he played 20 seasons) but not at a high enough rate to get him into the totally outlandish tier that SB Nation loves to zero in on.

Hatchett.XYZ yikes bro. Crimge

@@justinw3403 super cringe

Nick Cipollone nice reference

Probably not, as he was on the Rays

That’s irrelevant to the videos point

@@felizkodie5328 Like your comment..

TEQ Snukka how dumbass

Stupid question, but where is this quote from. Is it from a movie or show, or is it just a meme in the comments section of all jon bois' videos?

Tylersaurand it’s a lonely island song

@@kaminsod4077 Just 2 Guys - We Like Sports

Football, football, football, tennis, hockey, golf

I wish this video ended with a mention of the fact that his last ever HBP scored a run in a WS game