Saturday, February 21, 2004
HUCKLEBOBBY FINN
Bob Finnigan clocks in with an eve-of-pitchers-and-catchers-reporting article.
The article focuses mostly on the fringe spots on the pitching staff, and basically banishing all the minor-league arms as having no chance and leaving Mike Myers, Terry Mulholland, and Ron Villone for the final spot.
Villone gets a couple of mentions of a curveball in the article, one that I gues I'm supposed to be amazed about...
Villone...may have the edge there, especially after coming up with a curveball last year that made him more effective against left-handers.
Oh, this is good. Villone is effective against left-handers. Bob Finnigan, the great beat writer that he is, would surely put in some of Villone's stats versus lefties. I'm looking for them now...still looking...nope, didn't find 'em. Why? It's been chronicled more than once in the blogosphere that Villone is crap against lefties, and if by some shred of chance anyone out there knows when Villone came up with this "curveball" last year and has accompanying stats for that portion of the year, by all means, let us know. Right now, we're not being fooled.
[Unrelated note: new addition over at Sports and B's other stuff...a picture of Kazuo Matsui, altered by Jeremy.]
[Later unrelated note: Kazuo Matsui knows his place on the New York shortstop totem pole.]
The article focuses mostly on the fringe spots on the pitching staff, and basically banishing all the minor-league arms as having no chance and leaving Mike Myers, Terry Mulholland, and Ron Villone for the final spot.
Villone gets a couple of mentions of a curveball in the article, one that I gues I'm supposed to be amazed about...
Villone...may have the edge there, especially after coming up with a curveball last year that made him more effective against left-handers.
Oh, this is good. Villone is effective against left-handers. Bob Finnigan, the great beat writer that he is, would surely put in some of Villone's stats versus lefties. I'm looking for them now...still looking...nope, didn't find 'em. Why? It's been chronicled more than once in the blogosphere that Villone is crap against lefties, and if by some shred of chance anyone out there knows when Villone came up with this "curveball" last year and has accompanying stats for that portion of the year, by all means, let us know. Right now, we're not being fooled.
[Unrelated note: new addition over at Sports and B's other stuff...a picture of Kazuo Matsui, altered by Jeremy.]
[Later unrelated note: Kazuo Matsui knows his place on the New York shortstop totem pole.]
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