WasWatching.com Water Cooler Talk 6/10/09
Posted by Steve L. on June 10th, 2009 · Comments (6)
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so has anyone seen this strasburg pitch? is he worth all this hype?
I’ve seen video of him and watched 2 of his games on pay-tv. He was definitely the best player in this draft class and definitely worth the hype.
Will he be a successful MLB pitcher? There’s no such thing as a slam-dunk but I have to believe that anyone with that kind of velocity on his fastball and that kind of two-plane movement on his slider will have success in the big leagues. As long as he stays healthy (his motion is a tad unorthodox) he will be a #1/#2 for the Nationals.
If I were a Nats fan, I’d be pretty pumped that my 2011 rotation will be Strasburg-Zimmermann-Detwiler-Lannan with Drew Storen in relief.
Corey wrote:
Via http://www.seattlepi.com/baseball/406726_mariners01.html –
And if the 40-plus year history of the draft tells us one thing, it’s that pitchers drafted No. 1 almost never turn out to be worthy of the selection.
No pitcher taken first in the draft – there have been 13 total, including one by the Mariners: Mike Moore in 1981 – has ever made the Hall of Fame, and only three No. 1 pitching picks have made All-Star teams. Moore did it with Oakland in 1989, Floyd Bannister did it with the Mariners in 1982 (he was drafted by the Astros) and Andy Benes was a 1993 All-Star with the Padres, two years before he came briefly to the Mariners in 1995.
Beyond that, no pitcher taken in the Top 10 has ever wound up in the Hall of Fame. There have been some All-Stars, to be sure, but six-time All-Star Kevin Brown (the fourth pick in 1986 by Texas) is the only one to have won as many as 200 games, though four-time All-Star Dwight Gooden (the fifth pick in 1982 by the Mets) came close with 194.
The M’s would’ve taken Strasburg had he fallen to #2 so this entire excercise is irrelevant.
This pitchers taken number 1 dont work out argument is really tired. Cause a bunch of different players havent worked out that means theres no way Strasberg will? wheres the logic in that. Not to mention hes arguably the best college pitcher ever and far and away the best talent in this years draft not taking him would have been idiotic to say the least.
…and turning to tonight’s dose of sadness…
Yeah, Wang’s performance is half the story….here’s the other half:
3 solo HR’s….2-15 with men on, with clutch failures up and down the lineup. Just about every Yankee failed in a key spot with men on. Except Tex.