Comments on: Hot Stove Mailbag No. 3

By: jack dankovsky

jack dankovsky — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:51:29 +0000

?This article is very fine. I was reading it with pleasure. cheers

By: peter fulton

peter fulton — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:25:36 +0000

I’m really pleased that I found your blog. I?ve found a few good snippets here – I?ll be a regular visitor from now!

By: Whitey Fraud

Whitey Fraud — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:05:23 +0000

But it came down to dip or the lovely Jill and she won out.

So Jill wound up with the dip!

By: I hope Gerrit Cole's arm falls off!!!

I hope Gerrit Cole's arm falls off!!! — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:51:48 +0000

That mail bag sucked not one good baseball question was in there.

By: GreenBeret7

GreenBeret7 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:38:54 +0000

86w183
October 24th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
And why the other pitchers are good to great!

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Check out his numbers against some Cy Young pitchers over his career…like Clemens, Colon, Pedro Martinez, Halladay, Mulder, Tim Hudson, and others like Beckett, David Wells, Kelvim Escobar, Burnett, Garza, Langston and on and on.

By: 86w183

86w183 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:26:44 +0000

And why the other pitchers are good to great!

By: GreenBeret7

GreenBeret7 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:06:50 +0000

Frank from Chatham
October 24th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
86w183 – I did mean â€œARod.â€ Thanks. Just a slip of a simple vowel.

However, your clutch comment still does not differentiate what talent the pitcher had.

I watched ARod like we all have and believe his stats were largely developed against the average AL pitcher. And at times, he certainly looked like he had no plan at the plate.

Pat – I did see Berra play – many games, given I am 66!

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For every player, most of their numbers are against fair to bad pitchers. That’s why the pitchers are fair to bad.

By: GreenBeret7

GreenBeret7 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:02:01 +0000

Pat, I saw quite a lot of Berra’s career, from the mid-50s forward. Like most players, he had good and bad post seasons.

Another player, Mickey Mantle was always “clutch” in the WS, given his homers, RBIs and other numbers. However, he only hit .257. Rodriguez, from game 5 through the 2006 post season had read 4-41 with 1 RBI. From 1961-1963, Mantle had the numbers of 6-46 with 1 homer and 1 RBI.
It only means that even legends have long strings of bad post seasons.

By: Frank from Chatham

Frank from Chatham — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:01:23 +0000

86w183 – I did mean “ARod.” Thanks. Just a slip of a simple vowel.

However, your clutch comment still does not differentiate what talent the pitcher had.

I watched ARod like we all have and believe his stats were largely developed against the average AL pitcher. And at times, he certainly looked like he had no plan at the plate.

Pat – I did see Berra play – many games, given I am 66!

By: 86w183

86w183 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:47:30 +0000

I was always told size didn’t matter!