Comments on: Homer Bailey placed on disabled list with shoulder impingement

By: raidergreg2000

raidergreg2000 — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:42:52 +0000

Dusty is a total TOOL!

By: metalhead65

metalhead65 — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:29:18 +0000

hey don’t forget about Aaron Harrang. the guy may not have been a superstar but was a solid starter and the best the reds had at the time. never had any injuries untill dusty decided to bring him in and let him pich 3 innings in relief 2 days after his last start then had him pitch his next scheduled start! went on dl shortly after and has never been the same since.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:18:32 +0000

Cueto, then Bailey, now Arroyo, Leake pitching horribly….is instant karma done with the Reds for the Gomes celebration of Wainwright’s injury or is there still some debt to be paid?

By: cur68

cur68 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:39:41 +0000

what, are you new here? D.J. comes out at night. look, rapmusic, stay off the dope.
buh bye

By: cur68

cur68 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:37:13 +0000

Sure. Fun. I’ve doing some looking into it myself, because I really do want to know. It seems there is some argument without a statistical significance. It’s ‘slightly’ significant. He does have pitchers throw a lot (130+) but what’s interesting is that Jim Leyland is even worse for it. I’d be interested in guys who went between the Leyland and Baker; are they in worse shape? I can’t tell yet, but it bears looking into. In the cases of Prior, Wood & Volquez it seems those fellas did a LOT of pitching before Dusty got his toothpick into them or had mechanical issues that would have arguably lead to surgery anyways. Then they threw a lot under Baker, no doubt about it. What I find interesting is that you can make the same claim against Bobby Cox. See Steve Avery, Horatio Ramirez, John Smoltz and Kevin Millwood. All arguably injured as a result of the same manger’s decisions on their pitching; only this one’s named Cox. The same sort of thing, the same sort of regular season success but one guy’s an arm killer and the other…what; named Cox? I’m not so au fait with the baseball stats as I’d like to be, so I’m interested in the opinion of someone who is. Does a Baker run staff have significantly more injuries than any other managed staff?

By: rapmusicmademedoit

rapmusicmademedoit — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:28:19 +0000

who the hell are you??

By: D.J. Short

D.J. Short — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:19:02 +0000

All in good fun, man.

By: cur68

cur68 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:03:36 +0000

D.J: can you explain to me how Baker gets the heat for this? Can we get on La Russa for Carpenter and Wainwright? How about John Farrell and his list of injured pitchers? Girardi has a lot of pitching problems; is it his fault? I see a lot of stuff about how bad Baker is to pitcher’s arm health. You’d think a guy who can “destroy his entire starting rotation” would be out of a job rather than perennially in the post season. Is their any statistical proof that a Baker managed pitching staff is more injury prone than any other managed pitching staff? This is a serious question, by the way, and I’m not interested in “seems to be so”.

By: spudchukar

spudchukar — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:53:36 +0000

Ooh, harsh D.J., I like it.