Matt Harrison throws a no-hitter

I’ll take it.

5-10 GB/FB ratio, though…

i keep wanting to see him pitch, but he’s never pitching on days i can go

Or is that sarcasm?

I’m sure Nolan Ryan is very proud.

according to his site. Wonder what he has to say about Harrison.

That is WAY to excessive. I know there’s an entire discussion on this up the page, but I’ll toss in my 2 cents down here… I’m reeaallly starting to wonder if Nolan Ryan is going to wind up destroying our young pitchers before they even hit the bigs.

I don’t mind a little bit of old school mentality, but when a prospect who was just on the DL with a fatigued arm throws 120 pitches, you’re past old school and into the Dusty Baker zone.

at least from when I saw him pitch is that I didn’t see any pitches that made me think ‘I don’t think that major league hitters are going to have a fun time with that” unlike some of Danks’ stuff, Volquez’ FB and change, etc. Now, giving up no hits in seven innings is certainly a good sign in that regard, so hopefully his stuff was just off to a slow start in April.

I was at both Roughrider games today. I don’t think the crowd had any idea Harrison was throwing a no hitter. Either that or they were expecting a 9 inning game. I only recall 2 ball that were hit hard off of him today. His FB was around 89mph and his curve 70ish. Offensively the RRs were going to the plate with toothpicks. I only recall the hitting the ball hard once, a RBI double in the first game. They were one hit in the 2nd game. On a sidenote, my son did get autgraphs from Daisy, some scout, Andrus and Tommy Hunter. He is pitching tomorrow for the RRs. Game starts at 11:00am.

but I wanted to mention Feliz’ game today. He is on an excellent streak in his last five starts (1 ER).

this dude is a soft tossing lefty those guys can throw 200 pitches and come back out the next day Harrison will be fine and Nolan WILL save this Org., I just dont get where all the Nolan hating is coming from are people just hating to hate or what

My general feeling is I am fine with them taking a chance on him by leaving him out there since he had such an accomplishment going on. As was mentioned earlier a reliever was warm so if his no-no was broken up he would have been pulled. So for yesterday thats fine.

But in the long run I am concerned about the philosophy change that apparantly Nolan has had. Frankly it is a different era than when Nolan pitched. Just like when Bill Parcells coached the Cowboys. His style worked back in the 80’s and early 90’s but couldn’t translate to the late 00’s.

The offensive players are so much bigger and faster now than when Nolan played. They also are so much more of an investment. As much as fans look at baseball as a game, the owners of every team and executives have to look at it as a business. The salaries these teams pay these players is not conducive to only having them play for a couple years. And while throwing a ton of pitches early in their career may not ruin them then it very well may shorten their career and so down the road when they are in the 2nd year of a 10+ mil per year deal they get injured you just made a bad investment.

As for Nolan Ryan himself. This is the bad part of hiring the guy to be the figurehead. Ranger fans view him as a god and seem to forget he did the majority of his career elsewhere. We have been so pitching starved as a fanbase we latch on to him and call him our own. Thus the guy is seemingly invincible. He is getting alot of the credit for how this team has performed when I imagine he has had little to no impact at all. But because he has told our young pitchers he wants them to work deeper into games and because he was the pitcher he was people think that now our young guys will turn out like him. If he was such a great pitching mind don’t you think he would have been a pitching coach or at least offered a PC job sometime in the last decade plus since he retired. I love the guy as a former player and am happy that he played for my hometown team and I was able to watch him personally a few times. But I think he should stay in the front office portion of his job and sell tickets and get fans out to see these young guys and let the baseball people handle their development. Hes got a great chance with the way this club is playing to sell tickets.