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Mark Redman's Pity PartyMark Redman has three people to blame for his loss today:1. David Ross - If you are going to have a catcher that is exclusively your battery-mate, pick someone who can at least put the ball in play. It's hard to get run support when you have a black-hole, inning-killer batting seventh everytime you pitch. I like Ross, I think he is a good presence and a smart ball-player, but he's going to need to cut down the strikeout rate. 2. Daryle Ward - Suddenly Mr. Homer When It Counts can't hit a sacrifice fly and has no clutch hitting ability whatsoever. He can also compress doubles into singles and can't throw the ball home. I'm so glad I didn't jump on that bandwagon. I will say that he works harder and is a better person then I thought, but what he makes up there he looses in skill. 3. Mark Redman - Say what you want about White blowing it, going six 1 run innings without your team scoring is no excuse to walk the third and fourth runs to load the bases with no outs. No matter what the score or how many hard luck losses you've had, you go and you pitch your game, you can't do it all yourself, that's Kris Benson shit. Convince me again why we need his veteran presence? That's that. I fear Bay may be on the verge of another slump, however he has done a fine job of shortening the length of those slumps over the course of the season. Hopefully this one will just last a couple at-bats. posted by Rory at 9:57 PM | |
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