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Taylor Jungmann – His Place In The Longhorn Pitching Pantheon?
The pantheon of Longhorn pitching immortals is well-established: Burt Hooton, Greg Swindell, Kirk Dressendorfer, Street father and son - to name a few - but right now we're seeing numbers from our junior ace which aren't just spectacular. They are historic. The 6-6, 220 pound junior ace is 10-0...
Taylor Jungmann is the best pitcher in baseball
College baseball. He's a witch. Last night he struck out 17 Iowa batters in only 7 1/3 innings of work. And got a no decision. More on that later. He's filled out his frame and is no longer all arms and legs like he was last year. His fastball has gotten, uh, faster, and last night his slider was...
Benefit of the Doubt: Starters Who Get the Wide Zone
Last week, we looked at the unusually wide strike zones that both Mariano Rivera and Brian Wilson have enjoyed in recent years. In that post I suggested that wide strike zones aren't just for top-notch relievers. This week, we look primarily at starters who get the benefit of the doubt. Let's...
Life After Lackey Starts With Sheets
With three of the better free agent starting pitchers (John Lackey, Randy Wolf, Rich Harden) off the market, and Roy Halladay a Phillie, Met fans have unsurprisingly started in with the it's-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it talk. Best practice to avoid this nonsense is turning off WFAN. Actually,...
Bobby Jenks Cements His Place as White Sox Regular Most-Likely to be Traded this Off-Season
Free agency is 24 hours old, and the supposedly inactive White Sox are keeping things interesting. As you've no doubt heard by now, they're supposedly close to a bringing in Omar Vizquel to play a backup role, and now Joe Cowley has won the weekend with some juicy quotes from Bobby Jenks and Ozzie...
Contreras, Podsednik Turn Back the Clock
Many Decisions Still Loom For White Sox Jose Contreras salvaged what could have been a disastrous day and may have played himself into the White Sox starting rotation. I held off on writing anything tonight until I saw some post-game Ozzie quotes, expecting him to flat-out name Count his 5th...
White Sox Not Looking For Just Any Starter
So I'm reading Jon Heyman's latest piece on likely trade targets for contending teams, when I realize that the media is missing Kenny Williams' main objective yet again. Here's what he had to say. White Sox: Their attempted trade for Jake Peavy made it clear that they're looking for an ace to...
AJ, Wang and Chemistry
Either file this one under: "I can't believe I'm writing this" or "uselessly hopeful homerism." I can't decide which. This tidbit comes via LoHud: A.J. Burnett is an interesting cat. He downloaded the WordPower application to his iPhone and is learning words and phrases in Chinese so he can...
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