Kevin Millwood's weight problem
by aggierangerfan00 on Dec 17, 2008 8:35 AM CST
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So Kevin Millwood has come out again this offseason and said that he has lost 12 pounds and is going to be in shape again for this next season...blah,blah,blah. Hasn't he done this the past 2 or 3 seasons? Last year, he supposedly was in terrific shape after kickboxing all winter, and yet, he still spent time on the disabled list...twice
So I was thinking about it, and if Kevin Millwood keeps losing weight every offseason, that has to mean he is gaining weight during the season, right? I mean, I like Kevin, but if you just look at him in the season when he's pitching, honestly sometimes he does look like he has a little bit of a beer belly. All I'm saying is I'm tired of hearing from our Ace how he's fit to go for the season and yet, once again, we'll see him on the DL come May or June. What do you think about this whole situation?
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Put him @ SS and watch the lbs just MELT away
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by Maximilian on Dec 17, 2008 8:45 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
I think this time his weight loss could be for real
Because of the conditioning program Nolan wants to put our pitchers on. I’m still not a huge fan of running our pitchers ragged, but if there’s one guy who’s going to benifit from Nolan’s edicts, it’s Millwood.
Assuming we don’t trade him this offseason (I’m still hoping he’ll be replaced by Sheets) I’m interested to see what an in-shape Kevin Millwood could do, considering his peripherals where actually decent last year.
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by lonestarJon on Dec 17, 2008 8:53 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
I'm having deja vu...
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by utlonghorn24 on Dec 17, 2008 10:57 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
millwood is in a contract year
so I think he has an extra motivation to get into shape and pitch well this upcoming season
Wait 'til the year after next
by NothinG on Dec 17, 2008 9:30 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Not exactly
Milly’s contract runs through 2010 but he needs 180 IP this year or else the team can void his 2010 year. So I’m guessing he’s doing everything he can to try and stay healthy this year.
Nothing pithy here. Please move long.
by WyoRanger on Dec 17, 2008 10:52 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Who Cares
http://www.lonestarball.com/2008/12/9/687785/joel-sherman-on-rangers-ru#10582503
Per Keith Law In a recent chat when asked about NYY Kennedy adding a curveball this offseason.
" ‘player X has a new pitch / has been working out / is in the best shape of his life / wants to steal 40 bases’ story that you hear every offseason and need to learn to ignore like the white noise that they actually are."
by gr7070 on Dec 17, 2008 9:42 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Who cares
Really does it matter if the pitcher is a little portly? We aren’t talking about a guy who has to cover CF or crouch behind the plate all game. I think a portly pitcher just signed the richest contract for a pitcher in history if im not mistaken. Look at Gabe Kapler. The guy is one of the most in shape guys out there and yet he gets injured. We aren’t talking about Millwoods arm coming to camp with flab all over it and him not being able to throw the ball. We are talking about a guy in his mid 30s with a gut.
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by bigsteve on Dec 17, 2008 9:49 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
If Millwood was turning 27 years old this off-season
(instead of 34) I might buy that he could benefit from an outstanding conditioning program. Even when he pitched decently during 2006, he still wasn’t worth a flip at home.
I expect 175 mediocre IP’s from him in 2009 with an ERA embracing 5.00…basically Jeff Suppan South.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on Dec 17, 2008 10:02 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Weight and Stamina
2 different things. Millwood has clearly been out of shape since he’s been here. I have a hard time understanding why that isn’t a big deal.
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by DaheelzCM on Dec 17, 2008 10:32 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
nail head that was DaheelzCM
that just hit ya.
Who cares how fat he is, just be properly conditioned – that’s all. And not laboring on the mound like he was all this past season. Rarely did he have a crisp performace.
"You shouldn't fuck around with windfalls"
LoneStarJon
by LAMuscleFag on Dec 17, 2008 10:37 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I didn't notice
Millwood being particularly overweight in 2006. A lot of pitchers are build like bowling pins with sturdy foundations and that’s my recollection of him.
I don’t know if it is because he was so terrible in 2007 that I began to notice him differently. I do recall watching him one evening in KC sweating like he’d drank a case of beer the night previous and then there was a rundown play about a month later in Minnesota where he stumbled on the carpet on a rundown play and looked like a fat, bald old man trying to play baseball.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on Dec 17, 2008 10:39 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
He got away with being out of shape when he was younger,
not it’s catching up to him more, like the rest of us.
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by t ball on Dec 17, 2008 1:32 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
+ 1
"You shouldn't fuck around with windfalls"
LoneStarJon
by LAMuscleFag on Dec 17, 2008 1:40 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
One other thing
Millwood’s IP the last 3 years:
2006: 215
2007: 172
2008: 168
I think it’s fair to say that his being out of shape contributes to this.
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by DaheelzCM on Dec 17, 2008 10:35 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Out of shape or overweight?
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
by bigsteve on Dec 17, 2008 10:48 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
wasnt he out of shape in 2006 too?
the preceding post was a great success.
by DSheppard on Dec 17, 2008 12:12 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
They interviewed Millwoods girlfriend on the ticket
During one of those segments where Corby walks around the stands in Arizona during spring training.
She said he is obsessed with Duke basketball.
My hate grows with every pound….
by SaltyGoesYard on Dec 17, 2008 10:34 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Didn't Millwood go thru a divorce after 2006?
I wonder if that’s when his “give a shit” broke?
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on Dec 17, 2008 10:40 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
yep
his wife left him because he wasn’t properly conditioned and couldn’t “perform”.
"You shouldn't fuck around with windfalls"
LoneStarJon
by LAMuscleFag on Dec 17, 2008 10:43 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
So he probably "pitched" better on the road
than at home in his marriage also?
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on Dec 17, 2008 10:51 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
LOL
that’s what “she” said!
she being his wife.
"You shouldn't fuck around with windfalls"
LoneStarJon
by LAMuscleFag on Dec 17, 2008 11:04 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Perhaps his ex...
wasn’t the best catcher.
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by slc ranger on Dec 17, 2008 10:55 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Well after spending all that time with OMFT...
It’s hard not to get your hopes up when you’re pitching.
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by utlonghorn24 on Dec 17, 2008 10:56 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Maybe he had the same trouble
with the ex that he had in Minnesota on that rundown and would always stumble between 2nd & 3rd base?
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on Dec 17, 2008 10:59 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Nice!
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by Chaim Witz on Dec 17, 2008 11:25 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
HAH
"You shouldn't fuck around with windfalls"
LoneStarJon
by LAMuscleFag on Dec 17, 2008 11:04 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I heard she told him she would leave
unless he changed his arm slot
by BEW on Dec 17, 2008 3:44 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Great, this again.
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by thedirkatron on Dec 17, 2008 11:28 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
for the record
Notice that I haven’t participated in any of these ridiculous, “lets give Millwood away just to get rid of him” threads. He is a decent SP that is worth having around, it just sucks that we don’t have anybody appreciably better.
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by tricer on Dec 17, 2008 11:37 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Let's play make believe and say the Rangers sign
Sheets.
I don’t understand why there would be so much urgency for the Rangers to trade Millwood, especially with all these kids on the cusp of breaking in. Jeff Suppan wasn’t a very good pitcher for the Brew-has the past couple of years but his value came in taking the hill 65 times soaking up 380 IPs.
There is great value in being able to post every 5th day if you’re not killing your team.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on Dec 17, 2008 11:44 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
look at his IP
and tell me what on earth makes you think 380IP in the next 2 seasons is remotely likely…
mormons stole me and held me against my will with Oklahoma beer and 12+ hour work days.
by Jayslick on Dec 17, 2008 2:57 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
jayslick,
I’d settle for 175 mediocre IPs from Millwood this year and then kick him to the curb.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
by Josey Wales on Dec 17, 2008 3:48 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
im cool with whatever
but i wouldnt bet my life he hits 165ip this season.
would u?
mormons stole me and held me against my will with Oklahoma beer and 12+ hour work days.
by Jayslick on Dec 17, 2008 10:05 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Weight doesn't matter I thought?
See the argument of everyone vs. Miles and I about ponson.
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by Agreen07 on Dec 17, 2008 2:28 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
+ 1 it doesn't
it’s stamina/conditioning that matters.
"You shouldn't fuck around with windfalls"
LoneStarJon
by LAMuscleFag on Dec 17, 2008 2:38 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
unless of course your fat ass and belly make your delivery less like it once was
and then you suck.
i can think of a bunch of pitchers who fit that as they grow old.
mormons stole me and held me against my will with Oklahoma beer and 12+ hour work days.
by Jayslick on Dec 17, 2008 2:59 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
dbacks
The DBacks are looking for a 4th starter. Millwood is probably too expensive for that role.
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2008/12/d-backs-looking.html
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by RangerMad on Dec 17, 2008 7:33 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Dear Mr. Hicks.
We wanna pitcher. Not a belly itcher.
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by DJCahill on Dec 18, 2008 2:28 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
LOL
"You shouldn't fuck around with windfalls"
LoneStarJon
by LAMuscleFag on Dec 18, 2008 8:36 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
fore
millwood can put on a charade and act like he cares, but his most important regimen involves rounds at dallas national.
if he worked on his pitching like he works on his golf swing, he could be significantly better.
fwiw – he’s no smoltz at either
by sam in so cal on Dec 20, 2008 7:46 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
T-100
http://www.golfdigest.com/rankings/2007/athleterankings_gd2007
fwiw – he’s tied at 100 on this list…
by sam in so cal on Dec 20, 2008 7:51 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
yeh but ...
between each hole he does a few karate kicks.
"You shouldn't fuck around with windfalls"
LoneStarJon
by LAMuscleFag on Dec 20, 2008 11:44 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
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