05-19-2010, 11:13 AM
<!--quoteo(post=96960:date=May 19 2010, 09:28 AM:name=BT)-->QUOTE (BT @ May 19 2010, 09:28 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=96953:date=May 19 2010, 08:55 AM:name=rok)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rok @ May 19 2010, 08:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=96950:date=May 19 2010, 08:43 AM:name=BT)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BT @ May 19 2010, 08:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <!--quotec-->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.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ok, then don't bother reading between the lines, read the actual lines:
Hendry on Zambrano
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->"It's not much of a secret the last year or year and a half, that he's not throwing as hard as a starter as he used to," general manager Jim Hendry said. "And we thought short-term, that would pick up his velocity and when he did go back to the rotation, he'd have a build-up in that velocity and some confidence in it."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
or this:
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->"We're going to stretch him out to get back in the rotation and we'll see exactly when he's ready," Piniella said. "We took a chance that we needed to take. We thought his velocity would increase, and it hasn't.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It doesn't take a mind reader to infer the Cubs thought there was something wrong with Zambrano, and that putting him in the pen may help fix it.
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Or it could just be them trying to come up with an excuse for why they made this change in the first place. If they truly believed something was wrong with Z, then why put him in an even higher pressure role with a higher likelihood of failure than the one he was used to? It doesn't make much sense to me at all. If he was or is hurting, then DL him, don't do this.
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they explained it Rok. They said they though the move to having to pitch only one inning would help his velocity. Having to throw 15 pitches instead of 100 would enable him to go all out.
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Show me where this was stated at the time he was moved to the pen.
Ok, then don't bother reading between the lines, read the actual lines:
Hendry on Zambrano
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->"It's not much of a secret the last year or year and a half, that he's not throwing as hard as a starter as he used to," general manager Jim Hendry said. "And we thought short-term, that would pick up his velocity and when he did go back to the rotation, he'd have a build-up in that velocity and some confidence in it."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
or this:
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->"We're going to stretch him out to get back in the rotation and we'll see exactly when he's ready," Piniella said. "We took a chance that we needed to take. We thought his velocity would increase, and it hasn't.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It doesn't take a mind reader to infer the Cubs thought there was something wrong with Zambrano, and that putting him in the pen may help fix it.
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Or it could just be them trying to come up with an excuse for why they made this change in the first place. If they truly believed something was wrong with Z, then why put him in an even higher pressure role with a higher likelihood of failure than the one he was used to? It doesn't make much sense to me at all. If he was or is hurting, then DL him, don't do this.
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they explained it Rok. They said they though the move to having to pitch only one inning would help his velocity. Having to throw 15 pitches instead of 100 would enable him to go all out.
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Show me where this was stated at the time he was moved to the pen.