Well I, for one, don't think he'll be the same after the surgery. I have no medical data to back that up, but i just feel like that finger is too important to the delivery of his slider, and I don't think he'll be able to throw it effectively anymore.
All fair points, but it's not like this is out of character for Rosario. Personally, I can live with the mental mistakes ams and the below average defense and baserunning if he rakes like he did last year. But I'm not going to pretend those issues don't exist.
Well, I'm 99.99% sure that SpoTrac is wrong. MLBTraderumors, Cot's Contracts, and Twinkie Town all report that it's AND 200 IP in 2018. The writers on this site have also previously confirmed that it's AND 200 IP in 2018. With a Google search of Ervin Santana contract, SpoTrac is the only place reporting it as OR 200 IP in 2018, so I don't know where they are sourcing that from.
I think every team, at every level of baseball emphasizes throwing strikes. It's not easy to execute though. Unless of course you just soft toss it over the middle. But throwing strikes that aren't easily hittable is very hard to do. It's why guys like Kershaw and Verlander and Scherzer get paid like they do.
Hmmm. Lynn, Odorizzi, Gibson, vs. Verlander, Kuechel, McCullers. That looks very unfavorable for the hometown nine. On the other hand, it's baseball, so who knows.
His likeability comes off as completely phony when I've seen him on broadcasts. Of course I might just be biased to feel that way because I don't care for him.
The bottom line is they control their own destiny. Win 2 very winnable games at home and you're in. If they can't do that, they don't deserve to be in.
Agree to disagree. Joe doesn't strike me as the kind of guy that is going to keep playing well into his 40's, which is what it would take. Especially given the toll that he's put on his body already, and having made plenty of money already.
Yep, and if there are more weekday afternoon games added to the schedule, it's going to affect TV deals. TV ratings for those games are probably near zero.
Yeah, if someone thought they were getting a #1 or #2 for $12 million, that's on them, not Lynn or the Twins. I'd expect right around league average performance.
I think there is always an off day scheduled after a home opener, because teams charge a premium for home openers, so they can make up a postponement on that off day, and it will still be the home opener.
Wasn't it well into the 40's in Pittsburgh? A bit too cool for shorts and sandals, sure, but not too cold to feel with your fingers by any means. And that's downright balmy if the sun is out.
Perhaps when they didn't hold LaMarre, they were conceding the game. But then when the Twins decide to shift, they figure, ok, I guess we're still playing?
I meant to say confront, not chastise (which is what i said in the other thread), but why is Dozier even considering saying anything to him if he doesn't have a problem with it? The rest of his quote (where he suggests their veteran leaders will set the kid straight), suggests that he has a problem with it. My problem with it has little to do with how quickly they moved on (though I'm glad they moved on, if they did), or whether they were prompted or not. My problem is that they feel he did anything wrong in the first place.