Comments on: Buzz: Mets Eyeing Uehara

By: fongulalou

fongulalou — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:01:06 +0000

Not to mention the “superstars” who were/are ever worse:
Irabu,Nakamura,Fukudome etc.

By: rigsay

rigsay — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:25:32 +0000

Masato Yoshii.

Shinjo

Kaz.

Nuff said.

By: Coolpapabell

Coolpapabell — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:02:02 +0000

If that pitch that I thought was a two seamer was a cutter then he had a pretty bad cutter that day. Cutter s tend to have a sharper bite to them. Two seamers tend to wander in or out on a more horizontal plane then cutters do.

By: fongulalou

fongulalou — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:00:26 +0000

Hey as a fellow Met fan I’ll respect your opinion
however,there are a bunch of type B FAs out there
who we might be able to sign to short term contracts
which would only cost us money and who we don’t
have to worry about providing translators and who
we dont have to worry about getting comfitable in
a new country/society. So. before Omar overreaches
and spends too much time trying to be creative,
he should check out the health and interest of guys
we and he knows.

By: dwright5_godsend

dwright5_godsend — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:49:23 +0000

No, it doesn’t. You’re still a jerk for berating anyone on here who has mistaken a highly unknown pitch in the western world of baseball for a pitch (or pitches) with similar movements.

Look, I’m done arguing this nonsense. You’re right, I’m wrong. Happy?

My opinion still stands: Go after him, but don’t expect a superstar.

By: dwright5_godsend

dwright5_godsend — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:45:37 +0000

Hahaha…I quit. You’re right. I said I was a scout and also said I know everything.

I was simply defending my analysis (which I also stated was based on way too little information, and could be false) as an “overview” of his stuff. It’s like getting nailed for calling a curveball a breaking ball, you know it just doesn’t make sense.

Yes, I WRONGLY claimed the pitch was a curveball. It is in fact a shuuto. Yes, I mistakenly claimed it was a sinker, when I actually meant to say it was a pitch that sinks down and in on RHH. Perhaps a poor choice of words, but you’re taking my claim and parsing it way too much, man.

I never said I was a MLB scout, and I never said I know everything….I said I was a pitching instructor that focuses on mechanics and effects of pitches on hitters rather than the names of pitches.

By: helicopter ben johnson

helicopter ben johnson — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:43:35 +0000

I agree with your comment, but am prepared to give mgmt some room for creativity in terms of fixing the pen. If they went for a foreign stud (which this guy may or may not be) in addition to a proven pitcher or two that could end up serving us well

By: adropofvenom

adropofvenom — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:42:25 +0000

Spelling error, my bad, that spellcheck didn’t pick up on it because gaff is also a word.

Doesn’t change a damn thing though.

By: adropofvenom

adropofvenom — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:38:23 +0000

Perhaps instead, you should be modest enough to realize that you don’t know everything and don’t try and pretend that you do.

You’re the one sitting here and acting like you’re a major league scout off of a Youtube video that only shows a third (If that) of the information necessary, as there is nothing close to a velocity given forcing you to estimate, nor is the video of high enough quality to try and determine how the pitch is spinning.

By: dwright5_godsend

dwright5_godsend — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:34:21 +0000

News flash, genious! I said “I don’t care what the name of the pitch actually is.”

I was comparing the pitches to the effects you see in the MLB!

And by the way, jerk, it’s spelled gaffe, not gaff.