Mussina retires

[Keeper]

I'm always amazed how fat pitchers (particularly starters) can be good. David Wells, Bartolo Colon, Sabathia, Eddie Guardado, Ray King, Bob Wickman... I guess conditioning isn't all that important.

[BigPapiEnFuego]

well it's all pretty much in the arms and the legs, and if you look at those pitchers their legs and arms tended to be a bit thin and built up, but there midsections are fat.

 

if that makes any sense lol

[Dipre]

I'm always amazed how fat pitchers (particularly starters) can be good. David Wells' date=' Bartolo Colon, Sabathia, Eddie Guardado, Ray King, Bob Wickman... I guess conditioning isn't all that important.[/quote']

 

Guardado is not that heavy, King and Wickman relievers, the only exception to the rule that i know of has been David Wells.

 

Bartolo Colon is not a good example, seeing as he has broken down different times from several different parts in the last few years.

[YAZMAN]

Heroic? Did he save a baby from a burning building. Let's step off his johnson for a minute' date=' and call it what it was- he sucked this year.[/quote']

 

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll82/earofgeorge/oh_snap.jpg

[26 to 6]

Or getting Sabathia banned from every fast-food restaurant in NYC....

 

And also put a lifetime membership to Gold's Gym in his contract.......Lord knows he needs it....

Not bad ideas.

[Gom]

BAN 26 to 6.

 

BAN HIM NOW!

[26 to 6]

BAN 26 to 6.

 

BAN HIM NOW!

CC could use a gym membership and a ban on fast food though. Admit it, if we're gonna give him all this money we gotta protect the investment.

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

I'm always amazed how fat pitchers (particularly starters) can be good. David Wells' date=' Bartolo Colon, Sabathia, Eddie Guardado, Ray King, Bob Wickman... I guess conditioning isn't all that important.[/quote']

 

Well there's minimal running involved with the position.

 

CC could use a gym membership and a ban on fast food though. Admit it' date=' if we're gonna give him all this money we gotta protect the investment.[/quote']

 

We wouldn't want CC's 900 pound frame to go into cardiac seizures mid-delivery.

[jacksonianmarch]

cardiac seizures?

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

cardiac seizures?

Yes, I made up my own disease.

[CrespoBlows]

Fine' date=' explain his 2007 post-season failures then[/quote']

 

Small sample size.

 

Sabathia has made five postseason starts. His ERA in these starts is a robust 7.92, or slightly better than his first five starts of the 2008 regular season.

 

Any pitcher can have a bad stretch of outings. It is too imprudent to call Sabathia's failures in five starts in October indictive of his future performances.

[Gom]

Exactly Crespo. It is way too small a sample size to base anything off of it.

[diony]

Is not a bad stretch, the guy finished the season with 253 IPs, and like 3-4 of his last outings were with 3 day rests, what can you expect from that?