Maybe he took more pitches b/c he was hitting out of the two hole …. which is maybe why Girardi put him there.

Hopefully, he’ll snap out of it soon. When he’s on his game, he’s a gap-hitting machine and he makes a big difference in their lineup. We need to see that guy soon.

I’d assume b/c he throws it 98 mph and, to his credit, he never throws it down the middle.

I take everything unnamed “scouts” say with a grain of salt b/c who knows what their motives are. But he doesn’t seem to have the kind of movement you see on Beckett’s ball (and don’t we all want him to be a starter b/c we want him to be the next Beckett? … without all the HRs and blisters)

I’m not saying he’s suddenly selective. I’m just saying he had a couple of productive at-bats last night. You have to crawl before you walk. Maybe last night was the start of something.

I didn’t see his at-bat where he broke his bat, but did he swing at a ball that wasn’t in the strike zone?

He does have bad habits, but I would still rather see him in their on defense than anybody else. I do have a feeling that A-Gon will get the start today at second base however.

I talked to a scout at the Daytona Cubs game and he told me, “I told Peter Gammons the other day that Craig Hansen was the best set-up man in baseball, and he actually said it on TV”.
The scout also told me, “Mark my words, but to me the Sun only has five or six years left before it burns out”

That scout is an idiot who has probably never seen Joba throw in the minors. If his fastball is so straight why do hitters have such a hard time hitting the ball hard off him?

As an aside, how nasty is Jose Veras’ curveball? The pitch he threw to get the final out in the 8th, I think is one of the nastiest pitches I’ve ever seen in my life. That thing is unhittable.