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Originally Posted by Jayhawk Bill
My thought was, and remains, that Melky Cabrera (four years) plus Phil Hughes (six years) plus the leftover salary dollars (a big factor) were worth more than Johan Santana (five or six years). Melky's looking OK this year; Hughes, we now know, pitched injured. I expect that he'll look better in 2009.
Ian Kennedy, though, is getting pitches six inches off the plate called strikes tonight--sure, he's great given those calls, but so's Kyle Snyder. Chris Guccione is making left-handed Orioles batters defend a 26-inch-wide strike zone, and that's impossible.
By the way, Burres is NOT getting Ian Kennedy's strike zone.
By the way as well, the Yankees are 9-1 in the last ten games of theirs that Guccione has called, including two Shawn Chacon wins and one Aaron Small win.  |
The pitch f/x data I reviewed this morning is telling a different story. From what I have reviewed Kennedy had one pitch outside the zone called a strike last night while 7 pitches in the zone were called balls. On the other side of the coin, Burress had one pitch outside the box called a strike while 2 pitches in the box were called balls.