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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Phillies starter Freddy Garcia was pulled from his latest Grapefruit League start on Tuesday due to tightness in his right bicep.
Acquired from the Chicago White Sox in an offseason trade for Gavin Floyd, Garcia was taken from the game after struggling in the first inning, giving up three runs, five hits and a walk.
It is unknown how long the 30-year-old righthander may be sidelined.
Whoa! Jon Leiber’s got some super-powerful voodoo dolls, apparently…
NTNgod
Posted: March 21, 2007 at 08:38 PM | 26 comment(s)
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Trading Garcia to the Brewers would've made that even better.
I'd rather have Gavin Floyd and Gio Gonzalez.
JRE ==> Garcia:Floyd/Gonzalez::hand:bush
The Phils should be optimizing the primes of Utley and Howard and to a lesser degree, Burrell (and Rollins, if you listen to the local hype). Trading a failed prospect with a last bit of shine sticking to him and an interesting, if not outstanding, prospect, both of whom are pitchers, for Garcia is exactly the kind of deal Gillick should be looking for. Now if Garcia is damaged goods, then obviously it is not a good trade. And if Kenny knew, then he should have all his players taken away from him.
Garcia's obviously been damaged goods for about a year now. He mysteriously lost about 5-6 miles off his fastball, and it never came back. It's not like anyone's hiding anything.
You ain't kidding. I laughed when I read this:
That's pretty much his start on May 26, 2006 all over again.
I guess we'll see if the drop in MPH is unrepairable damage or simply (early) aging. I think I know on what side you are putting your money.
*Not to say that some of the local talking heads aren't referring to Garcia as an "Ace".
I guess we'll see if the drop in MPH is unrepairable damage or simply (early) aging. I think I know on what side you are putting your money.
*Not to say that some of the local talking heads aren't referring to Garcia as an "Ace".
God, isn't that frustrating! The same dopes who "reviled" Abreu*.
* See Abreu thread.
Hey! Maybe it's not so bad after all!
Except that he was brilliant at the end of '06 pitching four quality starts in his last five games; including back-to-back 1-hitters, one of which threatened to be a perfect game. His ERA was 1.73 over those 36+ IP. At that point, he wasn't so obviously damaged goods, but looked like a pitcher who finally worked his way through some problems and come out fine.
Actually, he looked like a pitcher who made some adjustments w/r/t pitch selection and it took some time for the scouting reports to catch up. The old velocity still wasn't there - he was getting guys out with smoke and mirrors.
He'll probably have at least some initial success in the NL as opposing teams get their first look at his assemblage of garbage pitches, but I'm still glad the White Sox got as much for him as they did.
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