Seth pitch a few hundred simulated innings a year. Ben was coddled, and look how he turned out.

or both?

too much. Call me optimistic, but I just don’t see Ryan expecting pitchers to suddenly become supermen. I think he understands the need to build stamina slowly over time, have good mechanics be in place, and will let the managers and coaches do their job in the day to day handling. I hope I’m not wrong.

had his pitchers throw on flat ground between games. Not really sure why, and I certainly wouldn’t use that as a blueprint.

Nolan’s going to “project himself” onto other pitchers because he forgot normal athletes don’t dominate into their mid-40s.

I mean, if my mom ran into him at Albertson’s, he’d just start asking her to throw a Campbell’s soup can 95 mph! He just can’t tell the difference! He thinks everyone is him! Projecting!

Here’s a rule of thumb: if baseball analysis depends on psychobabble horseshit, it’s probably wise to move on.

the poorly defined “live batting practice”, unless someone has uncovered a reference to added side sessions as well. I don’t see much of anything wrong with additional running, additional long toss, or adjustments to a pitcher’s spot on the pitching rubber, which are the things that Nolan has explicitly said they would try to implement.

Same logic that explains why Magic Johnson was a horrible coach. DOesn’t understand why everyone can’t do the things that he was able to do.

I would be hard to argue that Nolan was a freak of nature when it came to the velocity in which he could throw a baseball. It is debatable, however, if his longevity was a freak of nature or the result of his conditioning program.

If he was asked this question, I would think he would say his conditioning had more to do with his longevity than the freak of nature argument.

I think giving a counter example who was a good pitcher at 40 due to conditioning is not helping your argument. There are not many good 40 y.o. pitchers out there. If conditioning gets you to 40, then I’m all for it.

what does it matter what he does. The pitching is fucked so bad. Let him do his thing because honestly it really can’t suck any more than what we have seen this year and previous years.

If we’re going to be a team that doesn’t chase the free agent pitching landmines then here’s the advantages I see to this…

1) We have many many top pitching prospects. Now if a couple get hurt due to bad mechanics and overuse then it’s not going to derail our plan completely.

2) Those who have good mechanics and survive the conditioning, will be better off for it.

3) Because of their increased stamina, they are now more valuable during our 6 years of control and cheap. Major plus.

4) I believe there will be less of a learning curve once they hit the majors because they will have the stamina to get past the batters 2nd and 3rd times around.

Now this all depends on how drastic of a change will actually occur, but I agree with the philosophy and trust Nolan to be smart about it.

He’s really in a win win situation here. If this works, then the great baseball man nolan ryan has saved the texas rangers.

If it fails then “the great nolan must have been misled by scouts and john daniels because he’s a real baseball man”