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Monday, September 01, 2008
As The Late Great J.J. Smuggo Mohl used to say (before a leaning stack of useless laserdiscs felled him)...“Typical Reliever Syndrome”.
“I’m getting closer and closer and closer, and honestly I’m not going to lie, I want to break it so bad,” Rodriguez said. “But I have to sit back and wait for my opportunity to come. My goal is to make it to the postseason and break that record.”
...At the time, Rodriguez was completely oblivious to the record and was unaware his jersey number would carry so much meaning as the season went along.
“I just found out this year when you guys started bringing it up,” Rodriguez said. “I didn’t even know what the record was at all. I had no clue.”
...“It doesn’t matter if you save 100 saves in a row in a season, people never are going to give you credit,” Rodriguez said. “They’re going to point out the negative things. There’s always going to be something negative about me, but I’m used to it because it’s all I hear. It’s something you can’t control. You just have to keep pitching.”
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Posted: September 01, 2008 at 06:22 PM | 10 comment(s)
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His K/9 by month is this:
Apr: 6,94
May: 8,76
June: 9,53
Jul: 12,00
Aug: 14,73
I think he's ok
His K-rate was why I traded him in my league. That was around 27 saves ago. I thought I was pretty clever.
Angel fans were shocked when Rodriguez recently gave credit to Troy Percival's tutelage in a recent interview - the TIMES slant of Frankie feeling he was owed the closer's job during the years Percy was there is still fresh in many fans' minds.
Records are nice, but the 2001 Mariners would trade several of those 116 wins for an equal number of postseason ones.
The Angels have a nice home record, but it's not as good as Tampa's, and they haven't played well in Tampa. I worry more about them losing in the playoffs because they punted home field in order to rest someone who doesn't appear to need the rest.
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