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  1. Paul
    Respectfully disagree. I've never seen this kid pitch but, the thing Glavine did best was spin a baseball. According to the article they do share the ability to command though. And if this kid can keep from hanging the breaking pitches and hit the corners or run 'em off the plate, maybe he can be something special like Glavine.
  2. Paul
    "playing baseball games is a poor way to condition and a poor way to develop MOST baseballskills" THIS exactly. If he's gonna play the OF he's got a lot of drilling ahead. I listened to a souhan interview with Radcliff. The guy has like 30+ years scouting experience. Radcliff said Sano is the best foreign player he has ever seen. Souhan asked who was the 2nd best. Radcliff responded Cabrera. As in Miguel
  3. Paul
    Kudos to you my friend
  4. Paul
    Sometimes a lack of inference can be truly startling. I agree 100% with your take, by the way. As a matter of fact, it smells like the Gomez to Hardy to zero thing to me.
  5. Paul
    One thing you didn't mention, and one I've never seen mentioned on this site, is the catcher's ability to to catch a borderline pitch with the center of the pocket over the plate. This means: recognizing the pitch is off slightly, holding the glove with the center of the pocket over the corner or edge of the strike zone, letting the pitch hit the little finger, heel or thumb of the glove and deflect into the pocket, doing this with enough strength the the glove doesn't rock too badly giving away what you did. I don't recall seeing this kid catch but Mauer was excellent at this. All the best catchers do this. The lesser ones not so much.
  6. Paul
    "I think that the best pitch depends on the pitcher and the situation." Exactly! No matter what you throw, or where you throw it, if the hitter is sitting on it you're in trouble. Nice to see the new technology supporting the old axiomatic thought of "4-seamer up and in...softer stuff low and away".
  7. Paul
    Good for you, AJ. Keep going. You're on a very rewarding track. If you were my son or grandson I' be proud.
  8. Paul
    I think this is the right tack. If you put him in the BP and he fails where do you go from there? No, I think you try and get his head right first, then you make your move. Whatever your move ends up being. Dang, where's Stewart Smalley when ya need 'im. Look what he did for Micheal Jordan.
  9. Paul
    I had 1500 AM on in the background yesterday afternoon (or maybe the day before) and they had Souhan on. For what it's worth, he commented that he had heard from different sources in the organization that there was a clubhouse issue with Hughes. He said he was one of the young guys that pissed the vets off with his attitude after losing. I pararphrase, but he said something to the effect of "They thought he didn't take losing seriously enough. If they lost and he went 0 for', or booted a ball, or double clutched on a doubleplay he was upset. But, if he got a hit in the loss he was all smiles." He also said "they felt he was a bad influence on Ploufe". I personally take everything Souhan says with a grain of salt, but that's what I heard. So maybe, just maybe, this isn't part of some evil plot by the manager to get Butera back.
  10. Paul
    Nicely thought out ,Cody. But I think you have the cart before the horse here. I think the messed up came before the messages. And the messages evolved to mixed when the frustrated coaches saw nothing registered with the kid.
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