Article: Sleeping on Slama

[roger]

Actually, we won't know until we find out. Obviously his penchant for falling behind in the count has born no ill effects in Triple-A.

Yes, we do know if you watched his brief experience in the past. And his numbers at Rochester are misleading as he often is behind there as well. Have been watching about half their games and a lot of them are like Friday when his numbers were great except the one hit he gave up cost them the game.

[jlovren]

He's not hitting enough bats. And at 28, his bat-hitting skills are unlikely to improve any time soon. He'll probably end up missing bats for several years in one of those foolish organizations who believe in pitchers getting hitters out that way.

Another prime example of how the organization needs to change their philosophy of what type of players we develop. Although, judging by the numbers we have developed Slama pretty good.