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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 |
UTK Quickies
Or, quickie would maybe be more appropriate:
News flash — catchers get tired. Russell Martin has had to carry one heck of a workload this season, but the idea that "wearing down" somehow equals some kind of injury is just plain wrong. It's just a judgment call, one that is the product of knowing that there's some number of games that will have any player so tired that he loses effectiveness and increases his risk of injury. The problem for the Dodgers is that by playing Martin so much earlier on, they're left with this problem at the end of their season, yet knowing that they need him as badly now as they did in June and July. Add in that the dropoff to his replacement (Mike Lieberthal) is steep. Nevertheless, Martin's long-term future is one of the keys to the franchise competing for the next few years. So what's Grady Little to do? It's decisions like this that are why most managers have gray hair.Also, the A's are apparently going to give Rich Harden a start to see what he can offer for next year. I thought that with the A's and M's playing the way they were there might be a chance one would catch up to the other, but it turns out the A's are 4.5 games back, an awfully long road given that Oakland has ten games remaining, and every one against a current division leader (two more with Cleveland, two with Boston, and three with the Halos).
Labels: athletics, dodgers, injuries
Comments:
The A's have 9 remaining after tonight's. One left against Seattle, 3 against Cleveland, 2 against Boston, and 3 against the Angels. For what it's worth, I thought that looked wrong, so I checked it out at that link and agreed with you at first glance. However, it turns out that the first three of the games left list the probable starters, which looks a lot like the listing for who got the decisions.
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