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Glavine 4 Nady 2 LoDuca 1 Sanchez 1.5 Reyes .5 Wagner 1 Delgado 1 Later

He's better looking than his sister. Later

Great job, Monk. And that Alvarez/ Favre comment was a nice touch. Kudos. LAter

For most of his early career he was pretty anonymous. (Playing in Detroit does that to you). But when he came to the Mets, his games got a lot of National TV coverage. And he did very well. But I remember the announcers saying "Boy, this guy really can't hit the curve ball". Well, opposing pitchers must have been watching and the word got out. They started feeding him a steady diet of breaking balls, and his numbers weren't the same after that. Later

Delgado 2 Wright 2 Beltran 2 Oliver 1 Zambrano 1 Floyd 1 Reyes .5 Woodward .5 Later

Do you attach any racial significance to Baroid passing Babe Ruth? This guy says he doesn't. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AnDnJtvWnsvyFSQRXF3mdoQRvLYF?slug=dw-baberuth041206&prov=yhoo&type=lgns Comments? Later

Bringing in Sanchez was a good decision by Willie. It was only a 9 run lead. I wouldn't have trusted Julio with that lead either. Later

Elster88 wrote: Brooklyn 13, Pittsburgh 5 I love ya' , man. Later

Read back a few pages in this thread. I told you Johnson was a pain. I haven't liked him since he was a Yankee. Later

Will somebody please help Elster? Back to the game. Nick Johnson is a real pain in the rosy red rectum. Later

]When you're warming up in the pen and you know you don't have your best stuff, how do you alter your game plan? According to Brosnan, in the pregame meeting, you tell the outfielders to "play deep and cut across". I know that feeling. I also used to remind my infielders to wear their cup on days when I pitched. Later

Pitchers sharing information goes back a long ways. Jim Brosnan's The Long Season has a few stories about it. One line I remember was when they were sitting in the County Stadium bullpen discussing how to pitch to Hank Aaron. In the middle of the conversation someone yelled "Pena just struck him out with a spitter". They all agreed - "good pitch". As for the recent Mets, I seem to recall reading some stories about how Leiter and Glavine talked about their pitching styles one spring. Glavine had made his living "painting the black" on the outside of the plate, and Leiter had made his by coming inside on right handed hitters. They each tried to see if they could be successful trying the other's style. It screwed bot of the up for a while, but it looks like Glavine finally caught on and since the middle of last year has been effective doing it. When I started to read this thread, I immediately though that if one pitcher would actively reach out to Pedro for insight it would be Bannister. After his first major league start, he studied tapes of his first perrformance to see what he had done, good and bad, and discussed it with Peterson to make any necessary adjustments. While, according to Irish, he prefers what he learned from Sanchez, it also means that Pedro did share when asked. I believe that pitching is a fraternity, and the "us VS them" mentality means pitchers VS hitters, and the chance that someone who you teach something to will go to another team is not a consideration. Later

Well whaddaya know. They wrote the KTE for the person who has the Phillies. Well, almost. Later

The Baseball Cube lists him as Mike. Later

When he writes about Jeter, he probably has a bulge, but not in his cheek.Later

Elster88 wrote: Steroids do other things, too. You guys know that, right? Even sadder. LAter

From what I've read today, this guy is the least likely steroid user you could imagine. He makes Jose Reyes look like Mo Vaughn. Later

Blatt, when you started this thread, did you ever dream that you would have such a puke provoking example of pandering journalism as that Klapish comment about Jeter?I'm glad I read it (well, as much of it as I could stand) before I ate my lunch.Later

Last year's #1 pick has started the season at St. Lucie in the High-A Florida State League. Pelfrey has had two starts and has pitched 11 innings, allowing only 6 hits, 1 run, 0 earned runs, 1 walk, no hit batters, and 13 K's. I'm not sure if he will be brought up to the majors until he shows that he can hit some batters. In any event, welcome to the family, Mike. Later

Bret Sabermetric wrote: And don't forget Franco broke in as a ss in the Paleolithic era. He was Honus Wagner's boyhood idol. Later

Edgy DC wrote: Valentin --- not looking like he's long for this team. Didn't he sign a two year contract? Or was that Franco? Later

He's pitching in relief at Binghamton this year. So far, he has pitched 6 innings, with 0 ER, 1 H, 1 BB and 10 Ks. Nice. Later

Bannister 4.5 Beltran 1 Floyd 0.5 Wright 0.5 LoDuca 1.5 Reyes 1 Heilmann .5 Hernandez .5 Later

So, Yancy, are you going to add Ned Yost to your list in the first post, or will this thread become the list? http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/Y/ned-yost.shtml And, OO, IIRC they are not related. Later

Ned Yost, Brewers' skipper was a Met minor leaguer. Later