6 responses to “Release Points”

  1. delorean

    What do people think about Matt? Dead arm? He’s been ineffective in his recent starts.

    I suspect this might have something to do with it.

  2. Natto

    Too many late night Meg Ryan movie marathons.

  3. daveinexile

    Delorean I agree.

    Its noteworthy how many pitch leaders in ‘07 went on the DL this season. I am not saying its hard evidance but it should make a guy pause for a bit. I hope the start shutting him down now.

  4. daveinexile

    Chris:

    I view the exact number of pitches thrown ( 3500 in this case) a bit of a Red Herring. I think the training a body goes through has a lot to do with it can handle. I do put a fair amount of weight on the age of the player because the effects the amount of training, the kind of training a body has had, and how developed physically that arm is.

    Tell we see the same names in say the top 20 have back to back to back solid or better years I think I place more trust were the arms rank compared to their peers as opposed to number of over all pitches.

    Over all i am depressed with Bochy hanlding of the young arms this year. We are not post season bound any time soon. It will be a long march to get there so don’t wear ourselves out in the first couple days trying to get there a head of schedule.

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