Comments on: Daily Farm Report 4/17/09

By: danup

danup — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:31:02 +0000

Hey now, Trey Hearne is the one mediocre prospect whose bandwagon I avoided—I’m wary of people who can’t strike out a lot of batters in low-A. Mark McCormick, Gary Daley, Josh Wilson(!), Blake Hawksworth two or three times, Brandon Yarbrough, Jose Martinez… that’s all me.

By: bc

bc — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:27:15 +0000

“I don’t know what he’s referring to when he says his “best stuff” but I’m going to argue that command has been a more devious undoing than “pure stuff”.”

I think most pitchers generally include command as a subset of “stuff.” Any pitcher (say, up through high school and college) can recognize quickly (usually during warming up) whether he’s got “it” or not that day. Sometimes your fastball has more zip, sometimes your curve has particular bite, and sometimes you can place your pitches right where you want. Other days you just don’t have “it.” The fastball is blah, your curve isn’t biting, etc. Believe me, on some days, you know it’s going to be a long day before you even toe the rubber for the first inning. But what can you do? It’s your turn in the rotation so you take the ball and pitch the best you can. It seems like Ottavino is just saying it was one of those days.

By: southeast redbird

southeast redbird — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:07:41 +0000

It’s unfortunate when the pitcher becomes a victim of circumstances.
That’s why I feel it’s tough to determine his outcome by lines.
Sean is smart and knows what to do, I suspect he’ll make it up on his next start.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:47:09 +0000

Garceau’s 3rd inning serves him no justice…..the first walk should have been a strike out…the HBP unfortunate…..the bunt hit should have been an out if Jermaine Curtis would have moved and made an attempt to get the ball (frustrating)…
The 4th walk brought in a run and the fly ball should have been caught not fumbled(error) allowing 2 runs….Sammuel like you said did not help…

This is really unfortunate for Garceau…how quickly a perfect two innings turned into a nightmare in the 3rd….he was as sharp as can be in the first two{needed only 10 pitches) and made a snag at a line drive to him to end the 2nd that that had ESPN highlights written all over it…an inning from hell, that is what it was..