Kenshin Kawakami???
by ATLsportsfrk on Dec 24, 2008 1:18 PM EST
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3 Questions:
1. Are they just blowing smoke out of there ass, or are they actually making a real effort to sign this guy?
2. I understand he won the Sawamura Award (Japan's equivalent of the Cy Young Award) but is this guy actually supposed to help us.
3. What makes this guy special, and what pitches does he throw?
I will say he looks really good here.....
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Can't Help You, But...
Thanks for putting up a FanPost that isn’t claiming that the sky is falling, offering up absurd “solutions” to our problems or comprised mostly of the word “filler”.
On point, though, the Braves are trying to sign Japanese players now, but they’re limited by the fact that Atlanta does not have a prominent Asian community and other teams have made inroads by acquiring their players already.
Here we go again: http://thefulldeck.blogspot.com/
omfg i didn’t say the sky was falling I simply said they should make an effort to go get Jake Peavy because San Diego is going to have a hell of a time coming up with money to pay him
by ATLsportsfrk on Dec 24, 2008 5:33 PM EST up reply actions
Really?
Don’t forget your first comment in your own post, “if our ace is vasquez were screwed”, followed by “escobar aint that grt he swings at everything and makes a ton of errors” and capped off with such gems as “schafer is out 50 games for hgh if he is our future were in trouble” and “if ur thinkin charlie (career era of 6) mortan is our best upcoming starter then we got huge problems there buddy”. Aside from being blatently uninformed regarding just about everything, the overwhelmingly pessimistic approach taken in such post as your early effort are overwhelmingly annoying.
Like I said above, thank you for posting this, a serious post seeking knowledge with no rose-colored glasses or gloom-and-doom slant to it. Perhaps you should have just quit while you were ahead…
Here we go again: http://thefulldeck.blogspot.com/
Will help
I think this guy could help. My hunch is from what I have read he will be a solid major league #3 or 4…maybe a #2..but a number one type pitcher. I think you could see him put up similar numbers to his fellow countryman Kuroda of the Dodgers. However, watching the YouTube video..someone needs to tell Kenshin that he can’t elevate his fast ball like that against good MLB hitting. He tries to throw that fastball up high against a good hitter and it will end up in the seats. I realize that he gets away with that because his curve ball comes in so high and goes 12 to 6…but I think MLB hitters with the aid of video will figure that out. Fortunately for him it looks like everything tales away or in. Nothing is too straight.
To be honest I am not as concerned with the lack of a true “ace” if we have depth and a healthy Smoltz. You put SMoltz in the one, Vazqquez in the #2, JJ in # 3, and Kenshin in the four you have a solid starting 4. Put Glavine in the number 5 and figure that Campillo will get 15-20 starts because of Glavine and SMoltz’s health. My bigger concern is the offense..or lack there of.
I would also like to see a triple A rotation of Hanson, Reyes, and Morton. See if these guys can taste success as a collective group and establish an identitiy.
They won’t resign Smoltz though, right?
by ATLsportsfrk on Dec 24, 2008 2:52 PM EST up reply actions
Atlanta?
I friggin hope they do. Looks like he’ll be starting again. And he was only a type “B” FA. I could go either way on Glavine.
Glavine or Morton/Reyes/Parr
Glav is a good #5, PHI and Jamie Moyer won the friggin WS last year.
He can’t pitch anymore because he doesn’t have that accuracy anymore and yes that kind of is because of his age but i’m not saying old guys can’t play.
Another thing though if Glavine is like a rotated 5 starter or something I guess that would be cool. He would probably be more of a pitching coach to help the young guys come around more then anything else.
He's a #5 who can keep you in most games and win roughly half the time
And he can coach our lone LHP. Although Jo-Jo was a big cock about listening to him last year.
I don’t like reyes at all he went 3-11 and had an era next to 6.
by ATLsportsfrk on Dec 24, 2008 7:33 PM EST up reply actions
somebody make sure this post isnt visable to BIGJOE.. he evaluted a pitcher using stats that a pitcher cant control
"We win today, that's two in a row... if we win tomorrow, that's called a winning streak. It has happened before..."
Fuck it being visable to Big Joe.
It being visible to anyone is a crime.
Wins. Yeah, that makes sense.
ERA? Even better.
Somebody get the shovel out of this guy’s hands.
Glavine
If he is our #5 …great. If he is our number 3 we are in trouble. I think in the 5 slot with the extra rest he could be effective-Especially if you have a couple long guys like Bennett, Carlyle, and Campillo who can come get him in the 5th or 6th when he gets gassed early.
I would just like to see Hanson, Reyes, and Morton start out in AAA. I think that as hot as Hanson has been he could end up leading that staff and bringing Reyes and Morton up with a few notches with him. However, Morton and/or Reyes should not be on the big league roster unless they are starting. They need the work and shouldn’t be in a swing role right now. Now if someone gets hurt and they need to come up…fine. But to be honest with both Campillo and Bennet in the bullpen they should be able to get through one or two short term injuries without having to have them drive down from Gwinnett.
i thought it was interesting someone brought up the old school way of breakign pitchers in a while back, let me find thier way in the bullpen then graduate to starting… I obviously have no evidence to say that works or doesnt. But its an interesting idea. I think having JoJo, esp, do some long relief in games could help him find his way. But again this is all conjecture… i also like the idea of getting them starts, but both have proven they can beat AAA hitting, so i dont see the point of sending them down.
"We win today, that's two in a row... if we win tomorrow, that's called a winning streak. It has happened before..."
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