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Post by mscott59 on Sept 16, 2015 7:04:03 GMT -5
9th inning and KC up 2-0. Medlen pitched great and Davis the cyborg actually walked one but that was it. Use to be I was confident the game was over with Holly coming into the 9th with any lead. This year he scares me to death. Tomlin was real good. Medlen was better. |
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Post by canefan on Sept 16, 2015 9:55:18 GMT -5
9th inning and KC up 2-0. Medlen pitched great and Davis the cyborg actually walked one but that was it. Use to be I was confident the game was over with Holly coming into the 9th with any lead. This year he scares me to death. Tomlin was real good. Medlen was better. And I read this morning that Medlen didn't feel he had his good stuff last night. He has been, IMO, one of the very best pickups Dayton Moore has pulled off. He was rehabbing from two Tommy Johns and didn't come to the big club until after the All Star break, then only threw an inning in relief here and there for a while before moving into the rotation a few weeks ago. And he has been lights out in most of his starts. |
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Post by canefan on Sept 16, 2015 9:56:37 GMT -5
<SIGH>...Oh well...there's always tomorrow. Holly scared the shit out of me again, yet he keeps pulling it off without his best stuff. Gotta give it to the guy, he is a competitor. |
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Post by mscott59 on Sept 16, 2015 10:27:01 GMT -5
Tomlin was real good. Medlen was better. And I read this morning that Medlen didn't feel he had his good stuff last night. He has been, IMO, one of the very best pickups Dayton Moore has pulled off. He was rehabbing from two Tommy Johns and didn't come to the big club until after the All Star break, then only threw an inning in relief here and there for a while before moving into the rotation a few weeks ago. And he has been lights out in most of his starts. yeah, medlen had 2, tomlin had 1 tommy john surgery in '13 then shoulder surgery in april this year. the doctors involved should have been smiling after the game last night. |
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Post by Buckeye Dale on Sept 16, 2015 11:45:42 GMT -5
And I read this morning that Medlen didn't feel he had his good stuff last night. He has been, IMO, one of the very best pickups Dayton Moore has pulled off. He was rehabbing from two Tommy Johns and didn't come to the big club until after the All Star break, then only threw an inning in relief here and there for a while before moving into the rotation a few weeks ago. And he has been lights out in most of his starts. yeah, medlen had 2, tomlin had 1 tommy john surgery in '13 then shoulder surgery in april this year. the doctors involved should have been smiling after the game last night. When I was coaching/managing Pony League a few years ago, I forbade my pitchers from trying to throw a curve ball for that reason. We have too many young kids undergoing that surgery before they're even out of HS now... I had one kid that I told, & his dad told him to do it anyways. I pulled the kid off the mound and put him in RF. His dad was POed, & talked to me afterwards. His boy was pitching for another team the next week...I felt for the kid, but I was not going to have any part in ruining him just so that daddy could push him in hopes of making some money off his son... |
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Post by canefan on Sept 16, 2015 17:25:31 GMT -5
yeah, medlen had 2, tomlin had 1 tommy john surgery in '13 then shoulder surgery in april this year. the doctors involved should have been smiling after the game last night. When I was coaching/managing Pony League a few years ago, I forbade my pitchers from trying to throw a curve ball for that reason. We have too many young kids undergoing that surgery before they're even out of HS now... I had one kid that I told, & his dad told him to do it anyways. I pulled the kid off the mound and put him in RF. His dad was POed, & talked to me afterwards. His boy was pitching for another team the next week...I felt for the kid, but I was not going to have any part in ruining him just so that daddy could push him in hopes of making some money off his son... I figured out pretty early in coaching kids baseball that they are going to experiment no matter what I say. For that reason we insisted on fastballs, fastballs, fastballs in the games. I'd tell them when they can dot an i with a fastball consistently then we would talk. Next, at about 11 or 12, I'd teach them the straight change and start them doing spinning exercises to learn to thrown the curve properly. Once a kid could throw the ball into the ground in front of himself and have it spine in a straight line for about ten feet running away, we would begin to work on throwing it in practice. I'd stretch them out so much they didn't seem to realize that they didn't get the okay to throw limited numbers of curves until 13 or 14. I'd also give the dad a tally counter, put him in the dugout and tell him to report the pitch count to me after every inning. That kept him involved, made him feel like he was doing something and mom was excited to know I was watching out for her baby. |
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