I know right? The dude has the worst ERA of all starting pitchers in baseball and he still gets standing ovations when he strikes someone out. Timmy is having location problems and endurance problems...and if he can solve that he will be fine. If not - he will be out of baseball in a matter of a few years. As for demoting him to the bullpen in the ALDS - seemed to work fine from what I saw.
Hopefully his losing 40 lbs between last year and this year is lazyness and lack of work ethic....and not PEDs. Hopefully this season is a wake up call that he has to actually WORK OUT in the off season.
Die Hard niner fan here and I've met Joe a few times. He is a really nice guy - so this kind of trash talk seems a little out of character for him. Also, didn't he get OWNED by Clay Matthews a few weeks ago.
Careful Joe...watch the chatter...and just play Football.
Timmy's fastball went from 97 to 89. That doesn't have anything to do with hiding the ball well. I think he simply is getting a reality check on the fact that he can't rely on natural talent and may have to do some off-season conditioning. Same thing happened to Sandoval. Timmy needs to throw some weight on, find some strength and get that fastball velocity back.
I love how Lincecum has won 2 cy young awards and piched 200+ip, 200K and sub 3 to low 3 ERA for the past 4 years and people still question his durability.
It is amazing how we "worry" about these millionare athletes when they are not playing football because they may get into trouble. Really? It seems we are talking about grown men with the intellectual capacity and social maturity of 5 year olds. They cant HELP but to get into trouble...so we assign them coach "nannies" to monitor them and make sure they don't do anything bad.
Am I the only person who sees how pathetic this is?
That would actually be a good idea...provided he had minor league option years left. Once there let him burn out the rest of his minor league option years and, after nobody picks him up in the rule 5 draft, let him rot in the minors. Hopefully he would forgo his huge contract and ask to be released.
As for demoting him to the bullpen in the ALDS - seemed to work fine from what I saw.
Careful Joe...watch the chatter...and just play Football.
Am I the only person who sees how pathetic this is?