Dubee sums it up best
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Dubee sums it up best
David Murphy, Daily News Staff Writer
Tomorrow in the paper you are going to read about 800 words on Kyle Kendrick. But Rich Dubee pretty much renders my job meaningless with this explanation of his meeting today with the young righthander:
"I told him he needs to pitch just like when he came up. There were no expectations of Kyle Kendrick when he first came up. He was a 3-6 pitcher in Double A, had never had a winning record I don't think in the minor leagues, so when he got up here, there were no expectations. He was a draw out of the hat. He wasn't even a guy who had been in big league camp that season. It was just a quick rush. Boom, here you are. And hey, if he pitched great, he pitched great, if he pitched poorly, well, he probably was supposed to pitch poorly, because he was a Double A kid being rushed. So there were no expectations. That's how he need to go approach down there. There aren't any expectations. The only expectations of him are to be committed to executing pitches. If he throws 100 pitches, how many can he throw to a specific location, with a firm committment too -- that's the mark of where he's making progress. I don't care what his numbers are in Triple A. Again, if he pitches to a 2.00 ERA and it's all predominantly sinkers, we have the same Kyle Kendrick we have right now. And that isn't good enough right now. So we are looking for growth in the pitching, in the pitchability area."
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Dude - what's up with the handle?- Park might have something to say about that. Don't remember many people thinking the Park signing was any good when it happened but he's sure looking like he's going to be a valuable arm this year either as the #5 starter or as a long reliever/spot starter.— JimG
- Don't worry, Murph. Keep churning out the blog posts and the grim reaper should pass you over. We're in the midst of a journalism revival— andwhysee
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- "Journalism is dead" from the guy reading a newspaper web site. I'm hoping for Happ for the 5, as Park is more of a proven commodity in the reliever role. Plus, Park has a body of work as a starter that says "mediocre" - the last quality year he had as a starter was 01. Since then, he's had a lot of bad years as a starter and one Kendrick-like year in 06 with San Diego (7-7, 4.81 ERA). In the two years he's be used primarily as a reliver (96 and 08), he's put up 3.64 and 3.40 ERAs, with a WHIP of 1.41/1.40.— tjc
- I love it when people invent words to suit their own needs (although I am getting tired of reading/hearing "prideful". That is NOT a word. The word is "proud". It is pretty sad when a professional writer - a "journalist" - writes that in a published piece like I read a few days ago in a NY paper). "Pitchability" is definitely a new one for me; I'll have to remember that one. Aside from that, I have very little faith in Kyle Kendrick, but a lot of faith in Rich Dubee. I just don't see what he sees, though. I know he wants Kendrick to throw his slider and change-up more, and I get why, but the reason Kendrick is so stubbornly hesistant about throwing them is that both pitches stink. Whenever he throws them for strikes, they get hammered. When he throws them out of the zone, no one is fooled.— RollinsWasRight
- If you think Chris Matthews is a journalist, you don't know much about journalism.— GoPhilsGo
- RollinsWasRight ... "Prideful" is a real word, but it doesn't mean the same thing as "proud" and is almost always misused by athletes and sports writers. It means "arrogant," "haughty" or "excessively proud." As for "pitchability," I think Dubee's been watching too many Bud Light commericials.— GoPhilsGo
- Dubee doesn't beat around the bush, does he?— Erich H
- Dubee doesn't beat around the bush, does he?— Erich H
- JimG, you are the only one who thought that about the Park signing. Everyone else was shocked that we were able to get him for so cheap.— Erich H
