Daily Archives: September 11, 2009
Last night, Bobby Parnell gave up six runs and seven hits while walking five and striking out six in five innings against the Marlins.
…he was aiming the ball… no way around it… and you didn’t have to be a pitching coach to spot it…
Since joining the starting rotation, Parnell is 1–5 in seven starts, during which the Mets are 2–5.
In a post to Mets Today, Joe Janish writes, “He’s really raw, and needs time to polish up his game. At 25 years old, you’d hope he’d be further along, and I wonder if the decision to make him a one-inning reliever has stunted his development.”
In his six starts, he has a 7.91 ERA, while allowing roughly two base runners to reach per inning.
…he’s perplexing, because, no one inning is the same… be it start to start, or even inning to inning, he can look great, smart and in command, then look awful and confused the next inning, then look great and command again, then awful and confused, and so on… and so, i have no idea what that means, in terms of whether he’s a starter or a reliever, because, technically, it doesn’t bode well for either…
According to Adam Rubin, in the Daily News, The Mets are considering using a six-man rotation the remainder of the season, although Bobby Parnell could end up reassigned to the bullpen if Jerry Manuel becomes concerned about his mental state in the starting role.
…exactly, at this point, is him getting knocked around like this good for his psyche going forward… will it wreck his confidence… or, will it allow him more information and time on the mound to learn from his mistakes… or, will being pulled from the rotation, in a season and on a staff like this, be more demoralizing…
“We have to know where an individual is mentally,” Jerry Manuel explained, “and see whether it is productive to keep giving him an opportunity as to possibly developing or evolving into a guy who can start at this level.”
Speaking of starting pitchers…
According to Pete Abraham of the Journal News, “There is virtually no chance the Yankees will offer Chien-Ming Wang arbitration before the December deadline,” meaning he will be a free agent.
…wang is someone i would look at, because he has shown he can pitch under pressure in New York, and, if healthy, his low-in-the-zone style, assuming he can get it back, might translate well in Citi Field and in the National League…
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