My guess is people who don’t like sweets

Normally I hate when people are auto-resistant to change, because it’s usually an emotional reaction rather than an objective one, but I’m in the anti-Kinja camp this time.

He’s clearly holding runners on well enough! The guy is awesome at his job.

hot take

Literally, the last sentence of the post asks “who cares if he can barely throw?”

It means that not throwing over isn’t an automatic indication of “the yips”

A comment about Deadspin’s exaggeration of the Cubs’ reaction is not irrelevant.

You need to learn the difference between inference and implication. Genius.

I never said Lester was withholding the run game. You were so close!

Exactly. If a LHP varies the timing of his delivery, combined with proper timing of stepping off the rubber, he can withhold the run-game much more easily than any RHP. It doesn’t matter how often you actually throw.

So the pitcher shouldn’t get credit for retiring a baserunner, just because the runner was 20 feet away from the base at the time of the throw, rather than 25 millimeters?