Huston Street Back to His Old Old Tricks

Not sure if many have noticed the seeming rebirth of Huston Street as a (mostly) dominant closer this year. Have read a couple of article even proclaiming him the 2nd best closer in baseball this year (After Mariano). With a 56/11 K/BB ratio he has been quite impressive (other than two nights ago). As one that was very critical of him in the past it is both surprising and a welcome surprise. I truly thought his career was beginning to circle the drain, glad to see he figured it out. Now if only he had done this last year :).

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How's his health been this year?

Ellis for President

by tosk on Aug 17, 2009 9:58 AM PDT reply actions

Remarkably good

Changed his stance on the mound and is now throwing like 92-95 again. Didn’t want to try that until this year, even though Young had suggested it.

by jasonlbe on Aug 17, 2009 1:12 PM PDT reply actions

I’d take Bailey over Street as our closer in a heartbeat. Relief pitching was never our weakess; Curt Young has done a tremendous job again and again. With a strong BP entering the season (Devine’s injury not withstanding), Street was expendable.

by batterbatter on Aug 17, 2009 9:57 PM PDT reply actions

Lets not act dumb.

Street is pitching insanely well and I’d take him over Bailey. Now we don’t know if Street would be pitching like this here and I think the change of scenery really helped resurrect his career.

by DaPorts! on Aug 18, 2009 4:39 PM PDT up reply actions

It makes the trade for Holliday seem even worse

And then there’s Gio Gonzo too.

by Ran on Aug 18, 2009 4:13 AM PDT reply actions

What's a Gio Gonzo?

We now have Wallace and Bailey/Devine to fill in the closer role. If you can trade a top relief arm for what may eventually become a top offensive talent, you do it.

Like people have said before, relief pitching seems to grow on trees in Oakland.

"You're just jealous. You wish you had a rally animal..." -CardinalWraith

by Boonee on Aug 18, 2009 12:35 PM PDT reply actions

except

carlos gonzalez has hit HRs in 5 of his last 7 games as well and increased his average by almost 100 points this month. Maybe he finally is figuring that part out as well. Then the trade goes form netural-loss to big loss

by jasonlbe on Aug 19, 2009 1:28 PM PDT reply actions