Operation Four Bags

[Guest Edgy DC]

I think we (meaning you, me, and Chip Hale) need to start thinking about using the inside-the-park-homer as a weapon.

With other players and with other parks, a shot to to the gap that reaches the wall is an easy double and a potential triple. With Pagan, Reyes, and CitiField, these shots are going for easy triples and I think they should start thinking four bags.

Get Reyes' and Pagan's time out of the box all the way around the bases down to the microsecond. Spend some time with your outfielders at CitiField and figure out how out long it takes for players with different speed and throwing levels to get the ball back in from right center, from left center, from dead center.

They should be able to get it down to a science, and know that if he a guy has maybe a 4 arm (on a 1-5) scale, and 4 speed, that Reyes can't beat that, but a 3-3 guy, maybe they've established through trial and error that he can beat that.

So they go up against a team and before the series determine the centerfielder is a 3-3 or worse, and Reyes and Pagan (and maybe Harris or Hu or Tejada or somebody) is thinking "four" right out of the box when ever they drive the ball to the wall, and Hale is instantly watching the play unfold with the potential green light for an inside the parker foremorest in his mind.

I'm likely crazy, but seeing all these triples pile up, it seems if you look at the viability of the play carefully, with the right squad in this park, we may be able to stretch 2-5 triples into homers.

Or have a bunch of exhausted guys thrown out at the plate. I'm not sure.

[TransMonk]

I wouldn't be disappointed to see them think that way.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Like the idea but it's not as if triples failing to become runs is going to be a real drag on how many points we score this season.

[Guest Edgy DC]

No, likely not. And even if it were so, it's not projectable as such.

Just trying to think of ways to maximize the assets.

[ashie62]

Kinda like shooting threes in hoops.

If an outfielder bobbles the ball, double clutches etc, full speed ahead!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Scoring Pagan would have made a difference tonight, anyway.