05-19-2010, 09:32 AM
<!--quoteo(post=96936:date=May 19 2010, 07:36 AM:name=BT)-->QUOTE (BT @ May 19 2010, 07:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=96931:date=May 19 2010, 07:16 AM:name=jstraw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jstraw @ May 19 2010, 07:16 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Part of what made it such a high-risk, low-return move was the potential for it to really fuck up Z. We probably won't know how it went on that score till he's had about three starts back in the rotation. Z is not Ted Lilly. I'm not even sure that in the head is the brain. It's a miracle to me that Z bit his tongue as much as he did and that there isn't a trail of Gatorade machines bearing the scars of his wrath.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
If you guys read between the lines of what Hendry and Lou (and probably Rothschild as well) are saying, it seems to me they truly believed that Z was our 6th best starter when they moved him. They are clearly worried about his velocity. They think something is wrong. They thought moving him to the 8th might help him, and at that same time keep our best 5 starters starting. That obviously failed.
The problem is, there is no possible way to prove them right. If Zambrano comes back and completely sucks, it will all be blamed on the move to the bullpen. So even if they were 100 percent correct (and I have no way of knowing if they were), they will still be blamed, because they will be faulted for creating the problem rather than trying to fix it.
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I'm pretty good at reading between the lines (ok, well maybe not Lou's lines because everything out of his mouth is Buddha Spanish) and I never heard a word about the reason for this was to fix something wrong with Z. Never...not once. And if it had been...how was that even supposed to work? He didn't get enough work after the move to the pen for it to even be meaningful.
If you guys read between the lines of what Hendry and Lou (and probably Rothschild as well) are saying, it seems to me they truly believed that Z was our 6th best starter when they moved him. They are clearly worried about his velocity. They think something is wrong. They thought moving him to the 8th might help him, and at that same time keep our best 5 starters starting. That obviously failed.
The problem is, there is no possible way to prove them right. If Zambrano comes back and completely sucks, it will all be blamed on the move to the bullpen. So even if they were 100 percent correct (and I have no way of knowing if they were), they will still be blamed, because they will be faulted for creating the problem rather than trying to fix it.
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I'm pretty good at reading between the lines (ok, well maybe not Lou's lines because everything out of his mouth is Buddha Spanish) and I never heard a word about the reason for this was to fix something wrong with Z. Never...not once. And if it had been...how was that even supposed to work? He didn't get enough work after the move to the pen for it to even be meaningful.