Source: www.azsnakepit.com --- Saturday, November 25, 2017
We kick off the play of the year voting with the long-ball department... Note: as with the “real” Baseball awards, only regular-season performances should be taken into account. Post-season events simply have too much of an advantage when it comes to our collective memory. This means that things like Archie Bradley’s triple in the wild-card game - awesome though it undoubtedly was - are excluded. I’ve also stuck to home-runs, because those tend to be the most impactful events. Nobody made any counter-argument to this in the nominations thread, so if you don’t like it, please find someone who gives a damn and let them know. April 29: Jake Lamb goes VERY deep vs. COL There was a tie for the longest home-run of the season, as tracked by OnlineHitTracker.com . Coming off Tyler Anderson of the Rockies , this was the first one reported there at 468 ft - though MLB estimated it at 13 feet longer. Either way, I have not seen many balls hit to that part of the outfield concourse at Chase Field. Here’s the Statcast analysis of what the reported was the longest home-run in the major-league to that point in the season. What stands out for me here is the ease of Lamb’s swing. He doesn’t really appear to be trying to hit a monster home-run: but the bat is very quick through the zone, and the contact was perfect. April 30: Daniel Descalso walks off vs. COL The next afternoon we got another candidate. a walk-off home-run by Descalso. It was mem ...
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