OLD AND NEW
The Old
According to Bob Klapisch, the only man left in Carl Pavano's corner is Brian Cashman, probably because Cahsman was responsible for the disastrous signing in the first place and, even worse, for refusing to get rid of him when he had the chance. I adduce this as evidence that Cashman is indeed as crappy a general manager as I've been saying. In the wide and wooly world of free agency, you are going to blow it sometimes. Boston too wanted Pavano, badly. but you don't see boston insisting upon relying upon other bad recruitments they've made. They don't go inot this year depending upon Matt Clement as their 4th starter. They didn't go into last year depending on Wade Miller as their 5th starter. Cashman's refusal to concede just how gutless a wimp Pavano is and how wrong he was about this character has proven nothing short of disastrous. In the clubhouse evidently, Pavano's insistence that something is "grabbing" at his foerearm is being greeted with contemptuous skepticism. They ought to go further. They should make him clean out the latrines if he wants to get the money he will not pitch for.
The New
After a lackluster performance against the Jays, Phil Hughes might benefit from being refunded to Scranton. Or so the conventional wisdom runs. I disagree. I think that with his current assortment of pitches Hughes will likely not become a truly dominant pitcher any time in the near or even distant future. His fast ball is just too straight. In fact, I've never seen a straighter fastball, and that includes Dice-K's, which is pretty flat. But, and this is a big but (hence the italics), should Hughes learn to mix his fastball with a cut fastball, then we are looking at potential greatness. If with that curveball of his, he also develops a split-finger fastball, then there are no limits on what he can do. Who better to school him on the former than Pettite and Mo; who better to school him on the latter than Wang? Let him stay, let him learn, let him flourish.
According to Bob Klapisch, the only man left in Carl Pavano's corner is Brian Cashman, probably because Cahsman was responsible for the disastrous signing in the first place and, even worse, for refusing to get rid of him when he had the chance. I adduce this as evidence that Cashman is indeed as crappy a general manager as I've been saying. In the wide and wooly world of free agency, you are going to blow it sometimes. Boston too wanted Pavano, badly. but you don't see boston insisting upon relying upon other bad recruitments they've made. They don't go inot this year depending upon Matt Clement as their 4th starter. They didn't go into last year depending on Wade Miller as their 5th starter. Cashman's refusal to concede just how gutless a wimp Pavano is and how wrong he was about this character has proven nothing short of disastrous. In the clubhouse evidently, Pavano's insistence that something is "grabbing" at his foerearm is being greeted with contemptuous skepticism. They ought to go further. They should make him clean out the latrines if he wants to get the money he will not pitch for.
The New
After a lackluster performance against the Jays, Phil Hughes might benefit from being refunded to Scranton. Or so the conventional wisdom runs. I disagree. I think that with his current assortment of pitches Hughes will likely not become a truly dominant pitcher any time in the near or even distant future. His fast ball is just too straight. In fact, I've never seen a straighter fastball, and that includes Dice-K's, which is pretty flat. But, and this is a big but (hence the italics), should Hughes learn to mix his fastball with a cut fastball, then we are looking at potential greatness. If with that curveball of his, he also develops a split-finger fastball, then there are no limits on what he can do. Who better to school him on the former than Pettite and Mo; who better to school him on the latter than Wang? Let him stay, let him learn, let him flourish.
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