John Farrell Discusses the Staff
Red Sox Pitching coach analyzes each of the pitchers to the Globe's Nick Cafardo. Here are some highlights:
Lester- He's gone from being very deliberate - and I'm not saying he was unsure of himself - to one who attacks hitters, and his pace of game is at a much brisker pace now.
Wake- He's done a tremendous job on his slide step and holding runners on. He's considerably faster to the plate than a year ago, which allows us to throw out some runners.
Buchholz - If he trusts his stuff and doesn't feel that he has to overthrow to generate extra velocity, he'll be successful.
Okajima-I think as he came into this season, there was a tendency to pace himself a little bit to get through the full year, but while that was happening, the sharpness to his stuff wasn't quite what it was a year ago.
Farrell goes through the entire staff with some insight on his approach to each pitcher, well worth the read.
3 comments:
I hope Farrell works with Clay on developing a two seamer. Last time out, he was throwing 95, 96, with the 4 seamer, but with mediocre command and little movement.
Clay does not need to throw that hard to be successful. Dropping down to 92, 93, with command and some sink would be preferable. Save the 96 mph four seamers for letter high 2 strike fastballs.
If Clay struggles again tonight the Sox may have to rethink the Masterson to the pen idea.
Please tell me again why Masterson was sent to the pen so that Buchholz would become part of the rotation!! I was so discussed with his performance tonight I had to turn the channel, oooooo eeeee the words that were popping into my head. And why is Lowrie sitting on the bench while Cora goes out there and makes the Lugo type errors? Please Francona wake up before we all pull our hair out!!!
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