Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Daisuke
Not to be all SOSH reactionary on this blog, but I'm beginning to be very concerned about Daisuke. Simply put, he's walking way, way too many batters, and this is something that dates back to last year. Post ASB, he walked 4.5/9. This year, he's walking 5.7/9 innings, which isn't anywhere close to a reasonable number, and doesn't include the 4 walks he has had in under 2 innings tonight. I haven't had a chance to watch many of his starts lately, none since he came back from injury, so I can't comment on whether or not it is a matter of trusting his stuff, but unless he can start throwing strikes he's hurting the team by being unable to work deep into games. Hopefully this is simply rust from being on the DL, but the walk rate and K:BB ratio say that he's headed for boatloads of trouble.
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agreed. thanks for trading him to me.
on the plus side this 4th inning was pretty sweet with the change ups.
there are times where it is VERY hard to see what had people so excited about him. But when he's throwing 5 pitches for strikes he can still be very good. But if he can't locate the fastball..useless.
I also think the Sox kind of mismanage him a bit. He always has control problems, then he settles down, then the sox take him out after 100 pitches. This guy was renowned for throwing a ton of pitches - why not work him a little harder and let him try and take you deep in games. No need for him to come out tonight IMO.
For those of you at work that are bored I HIGHLY recommend the sons of sam horn game thread from last night. It is quite entertaining.
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