[討論] Five MLB teams on the brink?

[damper (可愛小阻尼)]

Five MLB teams on the brink?
By Rob Neyer and Jonah Keri
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=mlb/080520&sportCat=mlb

Rob: Next up: Rockies. Dead or alive?

Jonah: I say muerto. You can't deny this was a talented team that blazed
through the league last September. Even more encouraging was the fact
that this team was young, with core players like Matt Holliday, Garrett
Atkins and Brad Hawpe in their prime, and Troy Tulowitzki, Franklin Morales,
Ubaldo Jimenez and Jeff Francis looking like they'd only get better with age.
But I look at it another way: Absolutely everything that could go right for
the Rockies during last year's late surge did. Everyone was hitting, you had
rookie pitchers doing reasonable impressions of a peak-era Lefty Grove,
everyone was healthy … it was all just off the charts.

This year Tulo started the year at a much lower level, and now he's out for
a long time due to injury. As talented as Morales is, he's shown he's not
quite ready to be effective over a full major league season. Holliday has
predictably regressed from superhuman to just very good, second base has been
a wasteland and Manny Corpas' deal with the devil ran out real quick. I still
like this team's chances long-term, but I think they're done for this season.

Rob: Definitely. I mean, we can probably dispense with this dead/alive choice
quickly for the Rockies and the Padres, if only because they're both so far
behind good teams.

But yeah, the Rockies just weren't likely to duplicate last season. Too many
young pitchers with control issues in the minors suddenly began throwing quality
strikes in the majors. For that reason and others, the Rockies figured as
roughly a .500 team this year. And that was with Tulowitzki's good bat and great
glove at shortstop. Without him, they're finis.

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※ 編輯: damper          來自: 122.146.33.185       (05/25 23:06)
推 abc12812:不知道為什麼，看到這篇突然想到之前看過的Tulo的球探
→ abc12812:報告，上面把Tulo和Bobby Crosby做比較...
推 IanStewart:今年差不多是沒辦法
推 rahim03:希望Tulo不要變成Crosby... 此外今年最大的問題在打擊
推 rahim03:現在我們是MLB得點圈打擊率倒數第一名 連藍鳥都超越我們了
推 rahim03:以打擊見長的球隊得分在聯盟排後段 怎麼說都很難看
→ rahim03:先發也是問題 但最近逐漸回穩了 雖然francis一直中邪中
→ damper:corpas一直被爆也是原因之一  去年他太穩了
→ damper:這篇真的很酸   不過也是事實