Cespedes Family Barbecue Discovers Interesting Habit of Ex-Pirate Chris Resop, He Becomes Most Coveted Reliever In the League

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CFB sends the middle relief game into a frenzy with this discovery. I knew there was a reason I wanted to keep Resop.

Cespedes Family Barbecue - Chris Resop is a 31-year-old right-handed reliever. Since 2005, he’s pitched for the Marlins, Angels, Braves, Pirates, and A’s. He has a 4.62 ERA in 243.1 career innings. His career bWAR is 0.2. Chris Resop is unremarkable.

Or is he?
As some of you may know, I am quite fond of ridiculously lopsided batter-pitcher match-ups. The match-up that everyone’s been freaking out about lately is Paul Goldschmidt vs. Tim Lincecum, and rightfully so. It’s completely ridiculous. Anyway, I was recently checking out Starlin Castro’s most lopsided match-ups. Sure enough, there was Resop. Castro is 6-8 with three home runs, zero walks, zero strikeouts, and one hit-by-pitch against Mr. Resop. Interesting! Sorta. Using our buddy Daren Willman‘s amazing Media tab on Chris Resop’s player page over on baseballsavant.com, I went back and found video of the three dingers he gave up to Starlin.

  

Wait. What? I went looking for these videos in search of a pattern; maybe a pattern of pitch location, or pitch type. What I found was something far more fascinating. I have documented before how spectacular pitchers’ reactions are to giving up home runs,especially when the home run hitter is Barry Bonds. These three simple screenshots led me to the obvious question that thousands before me have surely asked: does Chris Resop grab his crotch after every home run he allows?

First off, major props to CFB for doing the research and finding this gem. One of the greatest things I've seen posted on the internet in a while and it happens to highlight a once very underrated reliever in the Pirates bullpen.

Second, Resop better be contacting the founders of CFB and arranging to put them up in box seats and buying them extravagant steak dinners because they just resurrected his career in one swift move. Resop is currently bummin around for the Red Sox Triple-A team, delighting the Pawtucket faithful with his signature crotch yank. Now all eyes are going to be on this guy regardless of the numbers he puts up and he has CFB to thank for all the extra attention.

Third, as someone who is grabbing their crotch roughly 47% of the time I am in public I can't help but respect the shit out of this move. And it's not only the act itself, but the consistency with which Resop goes to his signature move. You ground out weakly to the second baseman? Chris Resop is showing you how big his nads are. You take him to YABO City and park one in the stands? Chris Resop is adjusting his sack and gearing up for the next hitter. You tear the absolute cover off the ball? Chris Resop is showing you what he's gonna teabag you with after his catcher knocks you the fuck out. Hands down the top middle reliever in the league, he can play on my team any day and we hope to see you back in the Majors soon Chris.