Comments on: Obligatory post since I haven’t written in a while http://firegardy.com/2009/06/02/obligatory-post-since-i-havent-written-in-a-while/ Mismanaging games since 2002 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:37:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: sirsean http://firegardy.com/2009/06/02/obligatory-post-since-i-havent-written-in-a-while/comment-page-1/#comment-2564 sirsean Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:39:56 +0000 http://firegardy.com/?p=682#comment-2564 <p>Thrylos posted on his blog regarding Liriano's release point, and the graphs he posted seem to indicate that Liriano may have a mechanical issue he needs to work out.</p> <p>His release point is all over the map, and is much farther from his body than it was last year (when he was successful). He absolutely needs to make an adjustment to fix that.</p> <p>He can do that in Fort Myers while he's on the Dontrelle List, or he can work on it in Rochester with Cuellar and the Cliburns, or he can work on it with Anderson in the bullpen (while occasionally getting 1-2 innings for us, in which role he just might be successful). But we can't just trot him out there to lose a game every 5 days like we've been doing.</p> Thrylos posted on his blog regarding Liriano’s release point, and the graphs he posted seem to indicate that Liriano may have a mechanical issue he needs to work out.

His release point is all over the map, and is much farther from his body than it was last year (when he was successful). He absolutely needs to make an adjustment to fix that.

He can do that in Fort Myers while he’s on the Dontrelle List, or he can work on it in Rochester with Cuellar and the Cliburns, or he can work on it with Anderson in the bullpen (while occasionally getting 1-2 innings for us, in which role he just might be successful). But we can’t just trot him out there to lose a game every 5 days like we’ve been doing.

]]> By: MarkW http://firegardy.com/2009/06/02/obligatory-post-since-i-havent-written-in-a-while/comment-page-1/#comment-2563 MarkW Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:22:09 +0000 http://firegardy.com/?p=682#comment-2563 <p>Delaney was just promoted to AAA (Good thing, hopefully it's a quick stop before he sees his first stint in the majors - well overdue).</p> <p>Focusing on tonight vs the Indians, they are throwing a rookie left-hander at us in Huff... It seems we ALWAYS struggle against rookie pitchers because we've never faced them before and we aren't that patient at the plate... him being left-handed doesn't make anything easier. Unfortunately it "sounds" like Crede will be out tonight (not sure how certain though)... and it would be nice in these times to have Morales up to do the catching while Mauer is the DH and perhaps sit Kubel... however, tonight I believe we'll see something like this:</p> <p>Span LF Mauer C Morneau 1B Kubel DH Cuddyer RF Harris 3B Gomez CF Tolbert SS Casilla 2B</p> <p>I dont see how you can justify playing Young again today, and Buscher shouldn't be near the plate with a lefty going... I guess this is what we are left with? perhaps Cuddy can be moved to the 4-hole to break up the LH bats in our lineup... we shall see... We really need Crede to stay healthy going forward.</p> Delaney was just promoted to AAA (Good thing, hopefully it’s a quick stop before he sees his first stint in the majors – well overdue).

Focusing on tonight vs the Indians, they are throwing a rookie left-hander at us in Huff… It seems we ALWAYS struggle against rookie pitchers because we’ve never faced them before and we aren’t that patient at the plate… him being left-handed doesn’t make anything easier. Unfortunately it “sounds” like Crede will be out tonight (not sure how certain though)… and it would be nice in these times to have Morales up to do the catching while Mauer is the DH and perhaps sit Kubel… however, tonight I believe we’ll see something like this:

Span LF Mauer C Morneau 1B Kubel DH Cuddyer RF Harris 3B Gomez CF Tolbert SS Casilla 2B

I dont see how you can justify playing Young again today, and Buscher shouldn’t be near the plate with a lefty going… I guess this is what we are left with? perhaps Cuddy can be moved to the 4-hole to break up the LH bats in our lineup… we shall see… We really need Crede to stay healthy going forward.

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