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 0 recs

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 0 recs

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 0 recs

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 0 recs

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 0 recs

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 0 recs

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 0 recs