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8 ks through 4 innings of work for Stras.
I think that's freaking nuts. It's TJ surgery. The usual timetable is what - 12-18 months? This is a lost season anyway. I feel like they're rushing him.Remembering how well he pitched in June/July before going down, it'd be a terrible mistake to mess up his arm when you could have him at 100% for 2011.
Adam Ladson tweeted that he heard from Pudge that Stras is going to the Minors after tonight.
My thought is maybe, maybe let him get some minor league innings in September, preferably as a reliever.Let him get in some conditioning and send him to a winter league where he can work on his breaking stuff while regaining arm strength and generally tuning up.
Except that most minor league teams are done by early September unless there's some playoffs for a couple of the squads. I see an AFL appearance in his future if he's eligible.
Because a 2011 rotation of Strasburg, Wang, Zimmermann, Lannan, Marquis/Detwiler speaks for itself.
J-Zimm throwing to Harper for the Desert Dogs this fall would be nice to see.
I'm getting really excited. Per NJ, open competition at SS (which means Desmond if they are serious, he is maybe the true beast of the Nats), Morse or Maxwell in RF, Storen and SS knocking on the door.Just cut Batista and Tyler Walker.
Guzman says he's not in any competition.go look on NJ.
I agree. Desmond and Kennedy are both outperforming him at a fairly large clip.
He convinced General Manager Mike Rizzo. When he talked to Chico this morning, Rizzo told him he had not seen him pitch so well since Chico was coming up with the Arizona Diamondbacks and Rizzo was a executive with the team."His arm looks better," Rizzo said. "He looks stronger and more crisp than he did when he started the 31 games for us" in 2007.
Just to put in perspective how far this organization has come since 2007: Remember when he was our #3 starter?
Yeah. I remember that year very well.Remember Simontacchi, Jerome Williams, Mike Bascik and Micah Bowie?We went through so many damn starters that year.
Micah Bowie was a useful reliever for the A's and was known for random acts of charity. I don't consider him a random nobody.
I seriously must've blocked it out because I don't remember that at all. The 31 starts, I mean. I just remember him lobbing a pitch into the stands Only other thing I remember clearly from '07 is Cordero making his last meaningful appearance as closer against the Phils during the next-to-last game of the season.
