If he’s unsure of his foot, he’s not going to use his lower body and without that he’s a 90 MPH guy with no movement which is why he’s being lit up like a pinball machine. Makes as much sense as any of our other hypotheses

it’s more the verbiage of it that i don’t like. like i mentioned, it’s similar to “it is what it is” to me…

should we save that depth for older journeymen or career minor leaguers? and just trade away any starting pitcher prospect who doesn’t have a super high ceiling?

again though, maybe i’m just being to critical or something.

should we save that depth for older journeymen or career minor leaguers? and just trade away any starting pitcher prospect who doesn’t have a super-high ceiling?

again though, maybe i’m just being to critical or something.

should we save that depth for older journeymen or career minor leaguers? and just trade away any starting pitcher prospect who doesn’t have a super-high ceiling?

again though, maybe i’m just being to critical or something.

as for Wang, they showed a side-by-side shot of 2008 and this year picthing and pointed out how slouched he is this year and how much more upright he stood last year. thought it was kind of interesting.

“Wang’s wife is due in June.

I hypothisized earlier that it could be a weight on his mind.

I just see a lack of concentration or more likely an inability to devote the needed concentration.”

I also hypothesized that possibility in an earlier thread. Can we know for sure? No. But it may be adding to whatever his woes are. Just as a general thought, people tend to forget that ballplayers are human and run the panoply of emotions the way the rest of we humans do. Paul O’Neill played in the world series the night his dad died. Bernie Williams had to go on leave when his dad was ill because he couldn’t deal with the emotion of it.

We’re all different, but emotions get to people in different ways. Wang seems to be an extremely sensitive sort.

Thanks for the link to that article. I am on the fence about Giambi myself. Personable, affable guy. Did not, overall, perform up to expectations, or really even close – in spite of the power numbers, he was expected to be a bitter all-around hitter. And his injuries and inability to play first base well hampered the Yankees almost every season he was here.

But he was always available for comment, seemed to enjoy his work and never had a bad word to say.

I thought, being one of the first players to have to publicly deal with the steroids issue, that he handled it better than most at the time, but wish he’d gone the extra step (understanding that his livelihood was at stake, but, seriously, who put it in that situation in the first place?).

He’ll definitely get an ovation, and for some of the things he did, and because people liked him, that’s okay. But it’s understandable if people choose to abstain from the ovation, too.