Maybe J.J. Needs Lasik?
J.J. Putz on Miguel Batista:
“What’s baffling about Miguel is he’s got some of the nastiest stuff you’ll ever see, and he throws a 93-97 mph fastball with movement – and he refuses to throw it,†Putz said. “He wants to throw his other pitches to get you out. I mean, I’ve never seen him get beat with his fastball.â€
Raise your hand if you’ve ever seen him get beat with his fastball. I’m going to have to put my hand down to keep typing this post, but the rest of you can just keep pointing at the sky.
His BIS pitch data (available, with everything else good in the world, on FanGraphs) has him throwing 50% fastballs and 39% cut fastballs last year. His “other pitches” were thrown 11% of the time.
Maybe J.J. hates Batista’s cut fastball, but he’s always thrown it a lot. That didn’t exactly change.
Oh, and then there’s comment, presented without (much) commentary:
“If you’re looking for the guy who’s got it downstairs, Corcoran is best suited to close,†Putz said.
I’m sure the boys at Lookout Landing will have fun with that comment.
Thank goodness R.A. isn’t on the team anymore.
lol…no comment on corcoran…Leave it to a Putz to make that statement though 🙂
Dave, do you think maybe JJ was refering to Batista’s 2-strike pitches (his out pitch)? Not that it matters. I’ve still never seen it get many guys out!
Aaron M.
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Maybe…he was talking about another Miguel Batista? Like some kind of parallel universe Bizarro Batista?
Bungalow Roy Corcoran?
Another example of why current or former players or managers don’t always make good executives or analysts. Yeesh.
Maybe while he’s in an analytical mood, he could conjecture on why he himself could sometimes get batters out in the ninth inning, while he never could in the eighth.
It’s a long way from the bullpen to the mound – JJ probably couldn’t really see what Batista was throwing. And by the time the ball landed in the bullpen, not even quantum physics could reconstruct the pitch selection that started it’s journey.
Besides, you can’t really pay very close attention to the field when you have to be constantly on guard for payback pranks.
Give J.J. a break; he probably didn’t watch the games much through the first 8 innings. That’s when he worked on perfecting his shaving cream pies (most of which never got used last year and were instead eaten by Silva).
Nice
pie-making and fomenting evil plots.
hard to watch the mound with all that going on.
Oh, Roy. I have a feeling that behind that cup is something wonderful just waiting to get out.
Should we start calling his fastball “the Diggler”?
Ugh. Thanks, JoeintheCrotch.
I think he’s just showing his loyalty to the Mets. Clearly, these suggestions will make it certain the M’s won’t be their opponents in the Series next fall.