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New team, same stuff: Rangers righthander Danny Gutierrez spent most of the 2009 season on the disabled list, but he has shown two major league-quality pitches when healthy. Gutierrez, who the Rangers picked up from the Royals in September in the deal that sent catcher Manny Pina and outfielder Tim Smith to the Royals, showed a 90-94 mph fastball and a big-breaking 71-75 mph curveball in the AFL.

"He can really command his fastball," said Surprise pitching coach Tom Phelps, the Yankees’ pitching coach at Double-A Trenton this season. "He’s about as good as anybody here at commanding his fastball, and he knows how to change speeds. His curveball’s a good change of speed from his fastball—it really slows the hitters down. He’s a guy who could develop his changeup a little bit more and learn how to use it, but his fastball’s so good and he can command it so well, that’s how he attacks hitters."

2 months ago Martin_perez__8_tiny Kinslerhomer 9 comments 0 recs  | 

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phew

From the headline I figured Gut had gotten into an altercation again.

by shroomer on Nov 24, 2009 1:35 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Same here

I thought maybe he had visited the AZ same bar Hamilton had or something.

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by t ball on Nov 24, 2009 1:49 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Heh

That’s why I left it there

"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.

by Kinslerhomer on Nov 24, 2009 2:42 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Evil bastard

:)

"It's kind of a new stat that's in vogue" - Joe Buck on OPS

"...he wasn’t a good hitter, just a good middle of the order bat that hit a lot of homers." - NYTXFAN on Mark McGwire

by lonestarJon on Nov 24, 2009 6:56 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Suck

You freaked me out for a minute. I even read the entire article just to make sure I didn’t miss the party where he blew out his shoulder or got into a bar fight.

"You'll meet them again on their long journey to the middle." -Lester Bangs

by BAC on Nov 24, 2009 3:27 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

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