Chopping With The Braves And Rolling With The Tide
jpx7 (06-23-2019)
This is good. It gives him a bit of time to get straight and see if he can help us this year. He could turn it around but I don’t think things would get fixed under pressure with him.
Fine, but I'm not sure there's a pitching coach alive who can fix his head, put a knot in his tail and make him grow the hell up.
clvclv (06-23-2019), Runnin (06-23-2019), salmagundy (06-23-2019)
Tomorrow: Gwinnett hires Chuck Hernandez as pitching coach.
Forever Fredi
JohnAdcox (06-23-2019)
Hitting it and being consistent there are two different things. His fastball isn't as crisp and his slider is all out of whack. For a guy that relies on stuff to be effective that's going to be a problem. He's at the age for a pitcher where that will start to happen. It sucks but that is the reality of the situation. I honestly doubt he the ability to reinvent himself as that's easier said than done. If his stuff is going into freefall they need to move on. Not extending him was the obviously right decision.
Fb velocity isn’t my main concern. It’s his slider having no horizontal break and less control.
I’m worried he’s changed something to avoid pain and it’s ruined his slider
Who will come up? Surely Wilson gets next start, right?
jpx7 (06-23-2019)
I was hopeful Folty was righting the ship. He was pretty good over his last 6 starts coming into yesterday, averaging 9 k/9 and a BB rate under 3.
Hopefully it's mechanical and he can right the ship in Gwinett and be back up the 1st week after the break.
It’s not like Folty is this young guy that just needs time. He has never been the sharpest tool in the shed, but because his stuff was so dang good...he could get away with it.
Now his stuff has backed off a bit...still really good...but you take that away and make him actually pitch...he can’t. I think his stuff has declined a bit (which is normal), and this is who Folty is. Could he have surgery to fix the bone fragments..sure. Folty has never been a very healthy guy.
He has two years of control left after this year. He won’t be that cheap. This deadline may be the perfect time to move him.
He's still mad about the arbitration hearing.
Who is the Gwinnett picthing coach ?
Ivermectin Man
jpx7 (06-23-2019)