I’d wager someone asked him.

TT’s palying time or will Salty catch day games after a night game?

I pointed it out a couple of days ago( I’m SO smart;ok, lucky really) when we were debating the “trading catchers” situation. I have heard grumblings here at LSB about the disdain of the personal catcher. Why? Not trying to flame anyone, I just don’t see the problem if the 2 work together so well. Plus, it’s good way to give Salty a break and get TT time behind the plate.

in the bullpen before Holland came into the game. :)

don’t seem to put the approach that Connor took to preparation in an especially positive light, do they?

I’m all Fox Mulderish on Brandon McCarthy, but he’s making it hard.

with a lot of injury time the last two years, so it is not like he is an old pitcher. I am glad to see that he is able to go back out for his next start. Making it to the ASB without getting injuried will be a huge accomplishment and I think his pitching will improve considerably if he can get that many reps.

I love the fact that they are using the tools they have at their disposal—-I mean, this is not a new science here. I can remember many times in the past we here have thrown a fit over a certain pitch or pitch sequence to a particular batter. Was it lack of preparation or lack of execution? Hmmm…

What has been so frustrating about McCarthy this season is that he’ll have several innings where you see a guy who looks like a legit top of the rotation pitcher, and then he has something like the bottom of the 4th yesterday where the wheels come off. It is maddening.

Reps, reps, reps. BMac has almost missed the last entire two years. Talk about shunting any forward progress…

a clunker. At least FX2 had the day off. I’m hoping Hamilton’s reinsertion into the lineup reinvigorates the run scoring machine.

He will just beat it to death.

back up a bit this year?

Tall pitchers always have issues with repeatability. Also, it’s not like he has had a ton of opportunity to work on his mechanics the last two seasons.

I think the problem is more mental than physical. He’s clearly a perfectionist type. Everything has to be in place to work out well, and he panics when things are awry. That mentality has to change if he’s gonna be a TORP rather than BORP.

Yesterday, though, I wish less emphasis in the post-game comments was placed on how he lost his mechanics and more bitching about the strike zone was done. I’m not saying mechanical flaws weren’t the problem. I am saying that BMac is acutely aware of what is out of whack. Sometimes it helps one’s psyche to deflect some of that onto other things, whether justified or not.

I would have been much happier if an earlier mound visit had been made to help BMac “slow down”, help him turn off the panic button, and bitched at the ump just so BMac could get a breather and hear that it’s not always his fault that things go awry and that Wash has his back.

Just look at the pic at the top of this post. He looks like an anorexic stork. I have a hard time believing he will ever be a consistent pitcher. It’s going to be impossible for him to make all of those moving parts go where they are supposed on a regular basis.

one of you with that opinion.

What should he report?

And Rivera has soreness in his surgically repaired shoulder. Cursed.

may just come calling now. I wonder which pitchers we could pry from their system. What would Hughes cost?

surrounding that team right now…Cashman has to be getting desperate. I have no idea how these two teams match up, because I doubt they offer Hughes or Austin Jackson and certainly won’t offer Joba.

Would you trade Salty for Jesus Montero and David Robertson?

then absolutely he should be signed. Doubt it would be any more than 1.5 M for 2010.

 then he’ll be worth the >$1 million.

Has he been erratic this year? and how will his performances remain erratic through 2010?

given Brandon’s injury history, but I can envision he and Danks playing out their careers as middle of rotation starters and not looking back at that trade without the angst I’ve felt for 2 years. Excluding the Danks performance in the one game playoff, I think he’s been a serviceable starter but no ace in waiting. Or BMac could have a career threatening blister after next start and I could go back to my prior heartburn.

OTOH, some of the called 3rd strikes against the Rangers yesterday looked really good. I’m not sure a number of them didn’t agree.

Looks like he’s about to do a cartwheel.