Comments on: Our annual Byung-Hyun Kim report

By: hasbeen5

hasbeen5 — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:18:09 +0000

The HRs to Jeter and Brosius I attribute to plain old suck. But, and this is just my opinion, he shouldn’t have been pitching to O’neill or Martinez. A fastball from a sidearm righty breaks toward the handle of a RH batter, which is what makes them tough to hit. But to a lefty, it breaks right into the barrel. Also, the pitch isn’t coming from behind their back like it is to a righty. This is why sidearmers are usually righty/lefty specialists, and exposing them to hitters of the opposite side rarely goes well.

All that said, that’s my eye test. I don’t have time to look up stats to support or debunk.

By: BC

BC — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:10:33 +0000

Jeez. Only 32? Wow, so he was like 20 or 21 when he came up.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:07:06 +0000

He’s 32. So not exactly a washed up old veteran. Well, maybe washed up.

By: bigxrob

bigxrob — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:00:16 +0000

They are the Yankees of the Far east.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:57:43 +0000

As Red Sox fan, I’ve been tracking him, too – like Jeremiah Johnson I have – hoping to see his tracks lead up to the edge of a cliff and disappear. Of course, he’d still be alive and probably swing up and crane-kick me in the neck.

I don’t dislike him because he was a goat for the Diamondbacks or because he was Korean (really, Craig?). I dislike him because the Sox invested a lot of time and money into him with little back, while he came off as some malcontent who lacked heart. Despite this, I defended the guy up until the bitter end, so maybe I carry the revenge of the duped. It ended up that his only value was in that we traded for him an even bigger malcontent and waste of a roster spot in Shea Hillenbrand, which freed up at bats for Big Papi. You know the rest of that story.

By: fribnit

fribnit — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:53:31 +0000

Kim gave up home runs to Tino Martinez, Derek Jeter and Scott Brosius. He gave up a sngle to Paul O’Niell and that started the first comeback.

By: BC

BC — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:58:04 +0000

He’s gotta be like 38 years old at this point? Wow. Guess they were desperate for pitching.