Subtle understatement of the year.
2014 MLB Season: How Many Pitchers Will Die For Our Sins?
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Subtle understatement of the year.
Well, I mean, it's highly unlikely they'll make the playoffs as-is, but they've had attendance and television viewership problems for a few years -- seeing Tanaka every five days is the only draw they have outside of the YEAH JEETS Retirement Extravaganza. If he goes down ... oof.
That being said, I'm not terribly shocked that he's having arm issues (and he looked awful in his last start). He's had elbow problems in the past, and was used really aggressively (by Japanese standards) by Rakuten. Another thing is that the reason the splitter has fallen so out of vogue the last few years is that it's now believed to be an elbow-killing pitch.
Edit: And he's already on the DL with elbow inflammation. RIP Tanaka, your first half-season kicked ass.
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Interesting ceremonial first pitch in a Taiwanese game. Maybe NSFW.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4-I6fnyb3Eg[/yt]
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4-I6fnyb3Eg[/yt]
No kidding. No shot whatsoever if he's gone. We already don't have a shot at the wild card, and the division is looking grimmer all the time.
The last couple starts he's looked rough, now I guess we know why.
Well, it seems that Tex and Ells are hitting again. Tex had 2 dingers last night and Ells had the game winner.
On the bright side, McCarthy looks like a quality innings eater and the new kid Greene was pretty impressive during his debut.
^ That's great too. Very...flexible and beautiful women.
The story accompanying the vid I posted mentioned her doing a better job than 50 Cent.
The story accompanying the vid I posted mentioned her doing a better job than 50 Cent.
I'm surprised the Randy Johnson one isn't over the batter's head. A lot of his actual pitches were, including that ASG one over Larry Walker's head.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jAKobQQLnI[/yt]
Also kinda funny that Verne Troyer's pitch was high.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jAKobQQLnI[/yt]
Also kinda funny that Verne Troyer's pitch was high.
What the what?
Always a good time to post this...
Nice pitch by Justice Sotomayor. High and tight.
Nice pitch by Justice Sotomayor. High and tight.
The Yankees could probably use her and President Clinton to bolster their pitching staff at this point.
Tanaka's MRI came back with *slight* UCL tear in the elbow. Guess they're going to try the Bartolo Colon approach and do the blood platelet thing and see how that goes (would be out 6-8 weeks in that case) prior to committing to TJ surgery. See how that goes, but in their place, I'd probably just get it done so he's ready for 2016. This way, could delay it enough that if he tries it, could limp to the end of the season before needing it, and then he'd be in line to miss some of 2016 too...
Either way, this is the obvious risk with Japanese pitchers, I suppose...
Either way, this is the obvious risk with Japanese pitchers, I suppose...
Nice pitch by Justice Sotomayor. High and tight.
The Yankees could probably use her and President Clinton to bolster their pitching staff at this point.
They're both pretty good against righties...
Angels have the 2nd best record in baseball, and are stuck in AL West neutral. Damn!
Nice pitch by Justice Sotomayor. High and tight.
The Yankees could probably use her and President Clinton to bolster their pitching staff at this point.
They're both pretty good against righties...
Angels have the 2nd best record in baseball, and are stuck in AL West neutral. Damn!
The best part is that the division most likely won't be decided until the end of August, when we play y'all 7 times in ten days.
Got to love the AL West, very exciting finishes every year, and with Houston finally improving, there are no "automatic" wins anymore.
Great article about Kenji Nimura, the Texas Ranger's multilingual interpreter.
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Seriously -- a tear is a tear, and even a partial tear in the UCL means he'll need Tommy John at some point, sooner rather than later. Rest and rehab only goes so far. I'll bet anything that he misses all of 2015 at this point, so get the surgery now ... platelet-replacement therapy is still pretty much voodoo medicine at this point.
Yup, hell Adam Wainwright lasted half a decade with a torn UCL before it blew.
Who really knows.
But it does appear that surgury is iminent.
Wouldn't put Tanaka in the 'maybe half a decade' camp for needing the surgery, though. Apparently, the splitter is a fairly well-known pitch to lead to elbow damage, and Tanaka throws it a CRAZY amount of the time (read, minimum 2-3x more than anyone else). And also throws it 7-8 MPH faster than other people. Can be a devastating pitch for him, but also a leading cause for what happened.
So, to get any longevity here, may involve taking away his best pitch and relearning how to pitch. And his regular fastball isn't great, so could be *exciting*
So, to get any longevity here, may involve taking away his best pitch and relearning how to pitch. And his regular fastball isn't great, so could be *exciting*
Actually, it's not the splitter that's the "bad" pitch. It's the slider.
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