It Is High friend and commenter Buhner's Ghost asked me to pour into Alphonso's half-empty glass this column from The Seattle Times' Larry Stone (the columnist who writes like a columnist, not the Peter Abraham-style extreme blogger, both of whom I mentioned the other day). Stone sees top Yankee Michael Pineda as a candidate for:
"The Verducci Effect" -- the theory by Sports Illustrated writer Tom Verducci that targets young pitchers in danger of "injury or significant regression"Read and weep
We traded the next Mike Piazza for the next Bo Belinsky.
ReplyDeleteAs you can tell Superfrankenstein, his coming arm injury is a certainty in my mind, not just a possibility.
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