Gleyber Torres is fucking awesome and I'm pretty stoked to have been following him since his first at bat. This is my first prospect to pro follow and I'm loving it.
Gleyber Torres is fucking awesome and I'm pretty stoked to have been following him since his first at bat. This is my first prospect to pro follow and I'm loving it.
Mariners are 10 games over .500 with only a +12 run differential.
Astros are 3 games ahead of us with +122.
Last edited by Hugh; 05-26-2018 at 12:31 AM.
Originally Posted by Hulky
James Paxton..
Yes, finally. We’ve been waiting/hoping a long time for this.
I've only watched two of his starts (last night v. Yankees, and about a week ago against Houston), but Andrew Heaney looks legit to me. That's Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa, George Springer, Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Judge as well as a bunch of almost stars he's gone up against and dominated. He doesn't seem to have elite velocity (I think 92 or 93 was the highest I saw), but he works through the game really well. Last night he managed people on base super well (I think there was a guy on 3rd and 1st and he got Judge out by placing the ball too low and then when Judge wouldn't bite he worked his way back to 3 balls no strikes to 3 balls 2 strikes, and then got the out. I don't know if he's considered one of the Angels top starters, but I think he could or should be. He seems really good.
Last edited by Hulky; 05-26-2018 at 02:12 PM.
I wouldn't buy too much. He's struggled with the homer in his career and hasn't really shown an improvement on any of his pitches that I could see to merit the big drop in homers he's allowed.
I love that a bald eagle attacked him early in the season and he started pitching out of his mind.
That is pretty much when it started isn’t it?
Well you know what they say. Fuck yeah!
it's weird how Felix Hernandez turns bad as Paxton takes off. Is that kinda how it just works in baseball? Like Tanaka struggles and Severino ascends. Are there just not enough pitching coaches to make a Astros-like core of ace pitchers? If so why don't teams just hire like 5 pitching coaches so each starter gets an individual tutor/guy to feed them tape?
Ya he was pitching pretty underwhelmingly and then the bird dug it's claws into his pitching arm and I was like... fuck of course this is how it ends for the canadian.. poor Hugh and the mariners. And then he's just been lights out.
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