Thursday, May 09, 2013
Sims: Don’t Count On Roy Halladay Pitching Again This Season
(newyork.cbslocal.com)
Read More...Will the rotator cuff tear be repaired, or will the joint just be cleaned out, referred to as a debridement? The thickness and location of the tear will likely be the determining factors. If the labrum shows degenerative wearing at the edges, it may only require a bit of smoothing out. If a labral tear is evident once they are in the joint, Halladay will require a more robust surgery. [...] It is likely that Halladay is looking at a minimum six-month recovery if more than a simple debridement ...
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1. Bhaakon posted on March 15, 2012 at 07:31 AM # hit 0 | hit 0And he might be better off doing a Maddux-like mind-ninja maneuver and say next time he'd really blow it by Uggla. (Maddux claims he'd occasionally groove a pitch when it didn't matter so the batter would be looking for that pitch next time he faced Maddux.)
Theory: Maddux could write a book on pitching as influential as Williams' work was on hitting. Discuss.
Did he ever really do it? Did it work? Seems like it would work better on guys who kept a close book...would he know which guys those were?
The story is that Maddux did it to Bagwell. It's not obvious that the story is true.
If the batter did keep a book, it seems like the response to that situation would be to think "well, he's not going to throw me that again" and look for something different rather than sitting on the pitch that you hit a mile in you earlier match-up. Particularly against a guy like Maddux, who you know isn't going to make the same mistake twice.
Feels related to the O's pitcher - Flanagan? - who'd occasionally throw a BP fastball, not a change, really a BP fastball, when he thought he had the hitter's timing right.
Which of course feels related to Professor Warren Spahn: "Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing."
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