It’s interesting that SJ spoke about overvaluing Horne, McCutchen, and and Gardner. Brings up an interesting question as to whether 25-6 is “too old” to be a prospect, or if some guys really do take more time.

Horne’s injuries are downright alarming to me, though.

And Pete, can you ask Hank to tell the Daily News that I should shut up and start winning the lottery? Apparently anything he tells the press comes true.

I think Gammons meant to say Hanson is the best sey up man at the St. John’s Alumni meeting.

yah your write, reding isnt’ meye strong soot.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c.....707/2.html

But one section in particular that stood out to me was this one:

“From the loaded position, when the ball has come to a stop, it is accelerated from zero mph to 90 mph in 3/10 of a second. Rick Peterson, the former New York Mets pitching coach who has worked with ASMI since 1993 and is the acknowledged expert on pitching biomechanics among his peers, once referred to that measurement in a speech he gave to college coaches. A doctor of physics who was in the audience approached him after the talk.

“Rick, do you know what that means in g-forces?” the doctor asked.

“I have no idea.”

“If your entire body was accelerated at that rate of speed for over 60 seconds you would die.”

No wonder pitchers break down. Pitching, unlike most athletic activities, has reached the limit of what is humanly possible. So while we are accustomed to increasingly swifter sprinters, faster swimmers, longer drivers of the golf ball and bigger football players, you will not see a pitcher throwing 110 mph. The arm and shoulder are maxed out. Pushed any further, the shoulder would blow, like an engine in a race car.

“People run faster and jump farther because we have figured out ways to make your muscles bigger and stronger,” Fleisig says. “The baseball pitcher, every time he pitches, his muscles are pushing his ligaments and tendons to the limit. In the future, I can’t anticipate making the muscles bigger and stronger because you can’t strengthen the ligaments and tendons that much. That’s why the role of research in baseball is not to get the pitcher to throw faster but to lower the risk of injury.”"

Eduardo Sosa is making him look like a sissy

I think it could work. We could get him for almost nothing, he only has a year and a half left on his contract, he has poor numbers this year but if you look at month by month splits it was May that really killed him. He was average in April and really solid in June, where he put up a sub-3 ERA. And he has great numbers at Yankee Stadium. Even in May when he was struggling and came in with the Mariners, he pitched well here. Plus, he has pitched in big games down the stretch before.

I personally am not ready to dump Cabrera at all. If the rest of the offense was actually doing its part then there would much less of this discussion.

I remember when everyone thought the Sox should bench Pedroia last year after April. They did not and he won the Rookie of the Year. Obviously Melky has had much more time in his career to prove himself, but I think it is real early in his career to jump off his bandwagon b/c he is riding a slump.