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2005 Mlb!

yea i was talking about millwood combined with cc, westbrook and lee if your o comes along you'll be tough. wickman looked like crap i wouldn't be to excited if he was my closer though
 
Millwood did great. I think the O will get much better and the rotation is solid. Wickman was great when he came back from injury last year....only blew one save. He'll pull it together....hopefully.
 
Rich Red Sox touch base with Gilchrist
Robert Craddock and Jon Pierik
07apr05
CRICKET'S batting dynamo Adam Gilchrist has been approached by the world champion Boston Red Sox baseball club.

Gilchrist's thunderous stroke play has echoed across the world to trigger the offer of a personalised assessment session in Australia to see whether his dynamic skills are transferable from cricket to a game he played only once as a 14-year-old in Lismore.

Australia's Olympic baseball coach Jon Deeble, the Red Sox first base coach and recruiting agent, informed the club of Gilchrist's freakish hand-eye co-ordination and triggered the expression of interest.

"We expressed interest in him and we think he has a lot of potential," Deeble said. "Boston has a payroll of $160 million a year and it's something worth having a look at."

Gilchrist's manager Stephen Atkinson said no decision had been made on whether Gilchrist would accept the offer of a skills assessment session, most probably before pitchers and a pitching machine in Perth.

He said his focus was on the Ashes series.

"Adam has taken this as a compliment," Atkinson said.

"There are any number of collegiate players in America who would cut their non-pitching arm off to get a call from a major league team saying we would like to come down and have a look at you.

"Cricket remains his No. 1 priority and the approach may not come to anything, but it is genuine.

"If we did anything it would have to fit in with his cricket commitments.

"But it is not pub talk or someone daydreaming. It is this guy's job to identify players and he likes the look of Adam. Baseball people have been saying for years that Adam would be suitable to the sport."

The chances of Gilchrist switching codes are remote but he is an open-minded character who enjoys fresh challenges so he may at least have a try to see whether he has any potential.

Major baseball league salaries dwarf those earned by Australia's top cricketers who make about $1 million a year from Cricket Australia and often as much again in sponsorship.

The average major league salary last season was US $2,555,476, according to figures obtained by The Associated Press.

For an average baseball player last year, a night at the ballpark brought in $15,000, or $5116 an hour.

New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez, arguably the league's best all-round player, is the highest paid, earning $25 million this year.

Mike Young, fielding coach with the Australian cricket team and a former Australian baseball coach, said several years ago that Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds and Matthew Hayden would have had major league potential had they started as youngsters in the sport.

"Had Adam played baseball as a youngster he would have had a real good shot at it," Young said.
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http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,12776833%255E10389,00.html

Thought i would throw this at the regular baseball followers for their reactions. Have any other players from other sports successfully crossed over into baseball from other 'bat & ball' games. I know MJ tried to but baseball and basketball are not even remotely the same style of game.

I don't know what you guys know about Cricket or Adam Gilchrist but this is one guy that could possibly transfer his ability to baseball. One of the reasons i say this is his grip on the cricket bat is very unorthodox. Cricket bats are normally held close down to the blade of the bat for control, but Gilly hold his like a baseballer would hold a baseball bat, right at the top of the grip. This is how he has been able to generate such immense hitting power and has single handedley ripped the hearts out of bowling attacks from around the world.

On the other side of his game, he is also a wicket keeper for cricket, could this talent be transferred into him catching?

My gut feeling is that nothing will come of this, both games have a few differences that may make it hard to transfer over, i think baseballs move a bit quicker than a cricket ball (cricket is about 130kph to 150kph, whats baseball fellas?) and the baseball comes in at a different angle than a cricket ball does (bouncing off the pitch and up towards the mid section)

Would someone like to let me know about the Boston Red Sox, although not a fan of baseball i am always keen to start supporting a sport once i have found a team to get on board with. Looks like i might get to jump on board with the Champs.
 
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DarthGuru said:
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yeah that was a nice PH game-winning HR he hit last night eh? :)

Now that I'm an official LA resident, I can finally unleash my blue fever for the Dodgers. While I'm an A's fan first, I've always respected the Dodgers after the Gibson miracle. Plus I grew up hating the Giants, so it made cheering for the Dodgers easy. Sitting in the bleachers at the old 'Stick wearing my Dodgers cap was always an uneasy, but thrilling feeling.

I believe in Depodesta if only for his connection with Beane. The moves he made are easily questionable, but I think their pitching staff will carry them a long way and the offense will be adequate.
 
C'mon you guys. You don't have an opinion on Boston courting Gilchrist?

Or do you guys not know enough about cricket to be able to form an opinion?

Then again you may all have me on ignore and i could be wasting my time typing this.
 
Hand eye coordination is hand eye coordination. That's one of the major factors when it comes to baseball.

In baseball, however, the ball doesn't bounce. It's a direct toss from 60 feet into the catcher's mit. 150KM = roughly 93 MPH.. so that's about the same as some of the better fastballs in MLB. Though there are some that range as high as 99-100MPH.

I must admit I'm not entirely familiar with cricket. I read a few articles about some recent match involving India and Pakistan, but the terminology confused me and I recognized nothing.

But in baseball a good amount of your skill is required you play the field. We have 2 leagues, the one the Red Sox are in has a "Designated Hitter" rule. By this rule the pitcher (Person who throws the ball to the batter) doesn't hit, and instead there is a player who's role is solely to hit, not to play the field. If Gilchrist is looked it it's likely this may be his role.

When the ball is pitched in cricket, is there some sort of spin on it? And what's the ruling as far as hitting it off the bounce? How many swings and misses does one get?
 
Pedro made the Braves his daddies, maybe the Mets will have a fucking decent season this year.
 
Linus-

It was quite an interesting read, but like you said, I doubt much will come of it. I don't claim to actually know what all the terminology of cricket stands for, but I do understand the game and can follow it. I'd love to see some kind of crossing between sports like this, but I doubt it will happen. Unless Gilchrist has learned how to judge curveballs, splitters, sliders, changeups and even a cut fastball...I doubt his hand-eye coordination will even matter. Hell, Barry Bonds has incredible hand-eye coordination (roided or not), but that def. doesn't mean he could handle a googly.

and yes Beagle...helLA is my home now. :)
 
TopRocka said:
When the ball is pitched in cricket, is there some sort of spin on it? And what's the ruling as far as hitting it off the bounce? How many swings and misses does one get?
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Thanks for your thoughts TR & LD

Generally the ball doesn't move a great deal, unless the bowler is able to 'swing' the ball. Then it will move in an arcing motion either away from the batsmen or intowards him. Brett lee for example can bowl an inswinging yorker (a full toss that is expected to land at the base of the stumps) at about 150 - 155 kph and his movement through the air is very noticable. There are not too many who can keep this from getting them out never mind putting into the bleachers.

As far as the rulings go on the bounce, the ball is only allowed to bounce either once or not at all on the way to the batsmen. And you are only allowed the one swing at a delivery.

And lol at the googly LD, even i am unsure of exactly what a googly is, i think it is the legspinners wrongun, which is just as confusing.

If Gilly does come to play for Boston i will be straight on the band wagon. (there not the team everyone hates are they?)
 
^The New York Yankees are the team everyone hates. :)

Boston suffered an 86 year drought without a championship after an infamous deal in which they traded the best player ever to play baseball, Babe Ruth, to their archrival Yankees. They had not won a championship since then, until this past season.

If movement of a ball is as rare as you state it to be, Linus, then it's really unlikely that Gilchrist could handle a MLB pitcher without years upon years of training and practice.

In MLB there are pitchers with knuckle balls (ball thrown so there is absolutely no spin on it, thus it literally dances up and down, left and right in the air as it approaches the catcher), curve balls which break as much as 2.5 feet as they approach the plate, cut fastballs which are nearly impossible to hit if thrown right (See: vintage Mariano Rivera). It really takes such an incredibly trained eye that it may be something that's impossible for Gilchrist to pick up.

How old is he?
 
Gilchrist is 33 at the moment and has stated he has no plans to retire from cricket until at least 2007. Apparently the first base coach at Boston is the Australian national coach and he has shown some vision of Gilchrist batting to the management of Boston, who have stated some interest in him.

It would sure be interesting to see this happen, i believe they are lining up a 'net session' where they can get some vision of Gilly having a go at some baseball's from a few state league pitchers over here. These guys won't be up to MLB standards ofcourse, but if he creams them then maybe that means a more in depth assesment may be taken out in the US
 
what pussies red sox fans are. everyone talks about how yankee fans are assholes. there have been two major incidents with red sox fans, the one with jeff nelson, and the one tonight. he took a swing at sheffield, he wasnt going for the ball. what a punk. just like all the other abercrombie sweater, backwards hat wearing, racist, WASP loser Bostonites. yeah, you won ONE championship, you will always pale in comparison to ny in their city, culture, baseball team, and class. all you losers can go to hell
 
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