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Time for Eddie to go
- Thread starter BWahlberg
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WyomingGrizFan
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Glad to hear your having so many problems; opens doors for further opportunities for the bench players.
Go Yankees!!!
Go Yankees!!!
GrizBiz
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I will refrain from punching the Yankee fan in the kidney since he also professes to be a Griz fan. I will, however, :moon:
As far as Eddie goes, I just can't see how Hargrove can keep putting him out there for an inning at a time like that. He has no margin for error. I'll say again, it looks to me like he has a band about the width of one ball that extends around the strike zone to play with. If he gets outside of that band, it's a ball. If he comes inside of that band, it gets hit and usually hit hard. No pitcher in the league has enough control to pitch like that - it's amazing that he's able to get anyone out. What's his era, 9.something now? Ugh.
Eddie is still effective against left handers, so I propose putting him into the LOOGY (Lefty Only One GuY) role that they are using Sherrill for. Let Putz close and have Soriano and Sherrill as your main set up guys. Use Eddie, Woods and Green for single batter matchups and use the 12th reliever as your mop-up guy if a game gets out of hand.
Meche has earned another start or two, so I hope they send Livingston down so that he can pitch. The kid needs to throw. Bring up Appier and have him fill the mop-up role.
As far as Eddie goes, I just can't see how Hargrove can keep putting him out there for an inning at a time like that. He has no margin for error. I'll say again, it looks to me like he has a band about the width of one ball that extends around the strike zone to play with. If he gets outside of that band, it's a ball. If he comes inside of that band, it gets hit and usually hit hard. No pitcher in the league has enough control to pitch like that - it's amazing that he's able to get anyone out. What's his era, 9.something now? Ugh.
Eddie is still effective against left handers, so I propose putting him into the LOOGY (Lefty Only One GuY) role that they are using Sherrill for. Let Putz close and have Soriano and Sherrill as your main set up guys. Use Eddie, Woods and Green for single batter matchups and use the 12th reliever as your mop-up guy if a game gets out of hand.
Meche has earned another start or two, so I hope they send Livingston down so that he can pitch. The kid needs to throw. Bring up Appier and have him fill the mop-up role.
The choices for Eddie are pretty simple:
-Stay on with the parent club and get used sparingly in middle relief (in LOOGY situations like Biz said)
-Go on the DL
-Go to AAA
How many times do you have to see it before you understand? Eddie is not going to "catch fire" and become a lockdown closer as in the past. He is either hurt or he is incapable of doing what he used to.
-Stay on with the parent club and get used sparingly in middle relief (in LOOGY situations like Biz said)
-Go on the DL
-Go to AAA
How many times do you have to see it before you understand? Eddie is not going to "catch fire" and become a lockdown closer as in the past. He is either hurt or he is incapable of doing what he used to.
GrizBiz
Well-known member
He would have to agree to the reassignment and I can't see that happening. I think that he'd retire before agreeing to be sent to AAA.
I think he'd be fine in the LOOGY role, maybe even valuable, but you can't keep rolling him out there for three batters at a time. I don't know about the DL - he says that he feels fine but we know that he's pitching with a torn rotator cuff. Those don't heal and surgery at his age would be a career ender.
Should have let him walk in the off season. That one's on Bavasi.
I think he'd be fine in the LOOGY role, maybe even valuable, but you can't keep rolling him out there for three batters at a time. I don't know about the DL - he says that he feels fine but we know that he's pitching with a torn rotator cuff. Those don't heal and surgery at his age would be a career ender.
Should have let him walk in the off season. That one's on Bavasi.
GrizBiz said:
The only way I see him going for reassignment is if he felt he HAD to be a closer. He is certainly not going to be able to do it in the bigs - not at this juncture. And, yes, retirement would probably happen first. His days of closing games in the majors, sadly, have got to be just about over at this point.
