Orioles LHP Brian Matusz: "He might have been the best pitcher I saw all spring, and I'm not just talking about prospects."
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Ok
So now I won’t feel as bad when I draft him way too early in my fantasy league. I mean, I’ll still look foolish but I’m fine with that as long as I don’t feel too bad. =)
i suspect it's because he was commenting on a lot of players
and some of the comments were negative.
i think scouts usually are anonymous in these situations.
"I doubt he could reach [second base]...mostly cuz his fucking arm was in Aybar's nuts." – twistedlogic
Possibly for trade negotiations. If the scout is identified with a particular team, the team’s take on a player is already out for public consumption. This information can then be leveraged in trade negotiations. I guess it’s sort of buying a house and telling the realtor that you love the place and you really want to buy it.
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by Knubles and Bits on Apr 2, 2010 11:20 AM EDT up reply actions
Is it that the scout doesn't want to be named
or that Goldstein didn’t feel the need to name all the scouts he quoted?
I can’t see the full article, but it doesn’t seem like he says the scouts didn’t want to be named.
Maybe he just didn’t name them cus he quoted a bunch of different ones, and nobody would recognize them anyway.
The entire article is un-named scouts
Scouts don’t want people to know what they’re thinking. Almost every time a scout says something, it’s anonymous.
This just in: adorableness on the rise, family copes with child getting schooled. Film at 11. -daveh873
Yeah
“Anonymous” was my description, but “un-named” is probably more accurate. It’s kind of a “notebook dump” article, where Goldstein reports brief tidbits and interesting things people told him. It’s standard not to name scouts — as Stacey says, they don’t want other organizations to know any specifics about their evaluation of players.
by Joltin Joe Orsulak on Apr 2, 2010 9:44 AM EDT up reply actions
What on earth about this thread is un-optimistic?
This just in: adorableness on the rise, family copes with child getting schooled. Film at 11. -daveh873
Oh totally
I mean, everyone here at CC is always bashing Brian Matusz and saying how horrible he is going to be. I mean he’s ovbiously going to be a huge bust, but a little optimism never hurt anyone, right?
What are you talking about?
Where the fuck exactly have you been lurking around here if you think this is the first time there's been any optimism about Matusz? Jeez!
Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck
Maybe it’s just birdman, but when I hear “a scout employed by the O’s” it makes it sound like no other scout would complement Matusz.
I could see that
but there have certainly been more predictions of multiple cy young awards than of flops for matusz around here.
Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck
Matusz is interesting.
In some ways, there’s really not all that much hype for him out there, certainly not compared to the sort surrounding Price after 2008 or Strasburg now. But everything you read is good, and the main question is whether he’ll be an unconventional #1 or an extremely good #2. So despite the relative lack of hype, I’m having a tough time tempering my expectations for the guy.
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Lefty with velocity that is just very good rather than excellent
In reading prospecty places that’s what I get … his raw stuff isn’t considered overwhelming and some see that as limiting his ceiling. But (for the majority of people I’ve read) he makes up for it with pitching intelligence and excellent command of a true four-pitch arsenal. That’s what makes him an “unconventional” number 1, but a number 1 nonetheless.
by Joltin Joe Orsulak on Apr 2, 2010 11:14 AM EDT up reply actions
This.
I couldn’t care less whether he’s a “conventional” #1 who throws 95+ regularly or not, as long as he gets it done. (Personally, I’ll take command over velocity any day.) Just saying what I’ve read elsewhere.
Weaver's Fourth Law: Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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