Well, that didn't take long.Justin Verlander, the Tigers' ace who threw a no-hitter in his last start against the Brewers, won't join Johnny Vander Meer as the only pitchers to throw back-to-back no-nos. Abraham Nunez took care of that -- and Verlander's bid for another shutout, too -- with an RBI single in the second inning today. Verlander is good, though. I saw him pitch a few years ago when he was in double-A, and you just knew this guy was special. I covered the Eastern League for five years, and Verlander was probably one of the top five pitchers I saw -- with Josh Beckett (Portland), Scott Kazmir (Binghamton), Cole Hamels (Reading) and Jonathan Papelbon (Portland). Not a bad rotation, right? But the single best season I saw from a pitcher came in 2005 when Gustavo Chacin went 16-2 with a 2.86 ERA for New Hampshire and was all but unbeatable in the playoffs.
* All of those pitchers were toddlers (or embryos) when Jamie Moyer started pitching. Moyer was at his best in last night's 6-3 win over the Tigers, the 222nd victory of his career. Imagine if he'd won more than 12 games in a season before his 33rd birthday!
* Brett Myers says don't believe everything you see on TV.
* To be clear on the Freddy Garcia situation: not giving him a physical before completing the trade wasn't out of the ordinary. Ask any GM, and he'll tell you teams generally don't give physicals before trades. But the Phils didn't give him an MRI before spring training, either. Given his drop in velocity last September, that seems to be their bigger mistake.
* His politics aside, Bill O'Reilly gets no love in the Mets' clubhouse.
* All of those pitchers were toddlers (or embryos) when Jamie Moyer started pitching. Moyer was at his best in last night's 6-3 win over the Tigers, the 222nd victory of his career. Imagine if he'd won more than 12 games in a season before his 33rd birthday!
* Brett Myers says don't believe everything you see on TV.
* To be clear on the Freddy Garcia situation: not giving him a physical before completing the trade wasn't out of the ordinary. Ask any GM, and he'll tell you teams generally don't give physicals before trades. But the Phils didn't give him an MRI before spring training, either. Given his drop in velocity last September, that seems to be their bigger mistake.
* His politics aside, Bill O'Reilly gets no love in the Mets' clubhouse.
1 comment:
really liked the article you had in the sunday paper on garcia today.
also enjoy seeing 'saber' stats thrown around in other articles today as well.
really enjoy reading what you have to write everyday, scott.
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