I officially will not start another game thread this week.
I officially will not start another game thread this week.
Championships for MY teams in my lifetime:
Cincinnati Reds - 75, 76, 90
Chicago Blackhawks - 10, 13, 15
University of Kentucky - 78, 96, 98, 12
Chicago Bulls - 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98
“Everything that happens before Death is what counts.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
I want hard throwers too, but Lidge is only the answer if the question happens to be "What pitcher would make the best accelerant for the flammable Reds bullpen?"
Then I suggest staying away from the single most timid pitcher in baseball.Originally Posted by Falls City Beer
Last edited by M2; 04-18-2007 at 10:25 PM.
I'm not a system player. I am a system.
Sure he'd be a risk, but a skill set is what every Reds' pitcher besides Harang and Arroyo lacks.
There are other hardthrowers of course than Lidge, but none of them exist within the Reds' system. Anywhere.
Like I said in the offseason: this team will sink or swim with its pitching. Defense, offense...ancillary concerns. Right now they're driving their sloop into the teeth of a hurricane with this pitching staff.
Last edited by Falls City Beer; 04-18-2007 at 10:27 PM.
“And when finally they sense that some position cannot be sustained, they do not re-examine their ideas. Instead, they simply change the subject.” Jamie Galbraith
Opponents have scored 22 runs against the Reds in the last three games.
“And when finally they sense that some position cannot be sustained, they do not re-examine their ideas. Instead, they simply change the subject.” Jamie Galbraith
santos pitches a perfect 7th but I guess that was not good enough to continue
ERA for a reliever an be misleading. Lidge had 78 appearances last season. He had 4 really, really bad ones (1.2 IP, 14 ER).
Take those away and he did this: 74g; 73.1 IP, ERA: 3.69, 32 Saves, 2 BS;
Obvisouly, you can't take those away though. Basically Lidge's problem wasn't giving up the homer (that was a symptom). Lidge's problem was with command as evidenced by his spike in BB/9. He still Ks batters like he always had but he walked more and had more mistakes (which resulted in more homers).
Command is something that can theorectically be fixed especially since he isnt experiencing loss of velocity etc that would indicate a more serious underlying reason for the command issues.
This chicken hearted label, while sounding so intuitive, really is unfair. Basically if Lidge would've been a Red last season and performed exactly as he did with the Astros command problems and all, the Reds may have won the division by 8 games.
"This isn’t stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner
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