SPEAKING OF THE BULLPEN
depth, can somebody tell me why Vizcaino isn't the set-up man for Mariano. The further Farnsworth gets from crunch time, the better he is. I'd like to see he and Henn share the sixth inning, Bruney in the seventh, with Procter in games less close, then V and Mo.
Speaking of Henn, they're going to start him in Mussina's place the next time through. I was hopinjg for this at some point, but I wish they'd take Mussina's breakdown as an excuse to bring up Hughes, Sanchez, or both.
Watched the match-up last night, and if it's not too early to say Dice-K is the real deal, as almost every pundit is tripping over themselves to do, then it's certainly time to point out that he's probably no Pedro either. His fastball is a couple MPH slower than Pedro (and carl Pavano, apparently) and it has no movement at all. When he locates it, it's a plus pitch, but otherwise it's a gopher ball in waiting. I know he has a lot of different breaking balls, but they don't really look all that different from one another or from what you see around the league. What he doesn't have, which made Pedro and Santana what they are is a real good change-up. My bottom line is he will be good-very good, an All-Star in fact, but not Johnson or Pedro or Santana or Clemens, or even David Cone in their respective primes. I'm thinking Lui Tiant.
Speaking of Henn, they're going to start him in Mussina's place the next time through. I was hopinjg for this at some point, but I wish they'd take Mussina's breakdown as an excuse to bring up Hughes, Sanchez, or both.
Watched the match-up last night, and if it's not too early to say Dice-K is the real deal, as almost every pundit is tripping over themselves to do, then it's certainly time to point out that he's probably no Pedro either. His fastball is a couple MPH slower than Pedro (and carl Pavano, apparently) and it has no movement at all. When he locates it, it's a plus pitch, but otherwise it's a gopher ball in waiting. I know he has a lot of different breaking balls, but they don't really look all that different from one another or from what you see around the league. What he doesn't have, which made Pedro and Santana what they are is a real good change-up. My bottom line is he will be good-very good, an All-Star in fact, but not Johnson or Pedro or Santana or Clemens, or even David Cone in their respective primes. I'm thinking Lui Tiant.
posted by joe valente | 5:43 PM
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Despite the appaling performance of Farnsworth, it was somewhat heartening to see the tema stay in that game as long as they did, at least in terms of pitching and defense.
But as for Farnsworth, when will it become clear to Torre that this guy is either all in or all out? if anyone who throws close to a 100mph walks the speedy, light hitting leadoff guy on 4 pitches that are nowhere close to the strike zone in a tie game in the opposing team's ballpark in the late innings, they're obviously not on that night. And when farnsworth does it in particular, we all know his history well enough to see it's the floodgates being opened. he should be on the shortest leash of anyone on the staff. i know Torre has to be practical and that Mussina leaving so early put another strain on the pen, etc., so in this case there wasn't a whole lot to be done: but in the long haul this year, Torre has to learn to yank this guy with extreme prejudice at the 1st sign of trouble.
Now, why, on offense, they always have so much trouble with Ortiz, going back to his Anaheim days, is beyond me, but let that pass.--BGW
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