In the first baseball game the Twins have played since their vomitous loss in Oakland in Game 3 of last year's ALDS, Matt Garza pitched two perfect innings and struck out David Ortiz. (How depressing is it that we make such a big deal about a pitcher striking out a guy that used to be in our lineup? Sad. I digress.)
He was followed by Scott Baker, who (surprise!) couldn't keep the ball down and was hammered.
His reaction afterwards?
"I'm not disappointed in my performance." (1 inning, 4 runs, for the record. Might want to make sure you've got a nice place to stay in Rochester, Scott.)
That was followed today by Carlos Silva. Both Silva and the Twins staff seem awfully confident that the Chief will get back on track this year, but you couldn't ask for a worse omen than Johnny Damon taking him deep to lead off the game.
Ouch, Chief.
Silva pitched two innings and gave up 5 runs.
Granted, I'm getting way ahead of myself considering we're talking about a handful of pitches here, but what happens if Silva and Ortiz are both terrible this spring?
We know Ponson will simply be let go if he doesn't win a job, but Ortiz is guaranteed $3.1 million, Silva $4 million.
What if Bonser, Garza, Ponson and Baker all pitch lights-out the rest of the spring?
You can't just ignore that and give Silva and Oritz a job can you?
I hope this team hasn't dug itself a Tony Batista-sized hole.
3 comments:
cheif looked fucking horrible. his fastball had no movement. i think everyone figured out he is always around the plate and now they are just hammering him, kind of like with Radke a while back. maybe he should just start throwing junk in the dirt, fucker. but i'm sure gardy thinks he will be a 20 game winner! what do you think zim, twins over/under on wins in vegas is 83.5. what should I put my money on?
rusty
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really, it's 83.5?
they've won at least 83 games every year since 2001.
I think I'd bet the over.
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