Based on the balls that were being crushed including the outs those numbers go out the door. Diekman was fortunate to give up just 2 runs. His ball was straight as an arrow and his breaking ball was never a strike.
Agree. You have to come in and be able to throw strikes. That is a problem with Diekman. Love his velocity but there is a reason he had an over 5 ERA in the NL.
We could have Davis next year if we spend for him in free agency in a few months.
In 2012 and 2014 his ERA was almost 4 and his control was much better in 2014 but not so much in 2012. When I was watching his fastball last night it started to remind me of Tim Crabrtree who could hit the high 90's but the pitch was still hittable because of not much movement. I mean those guys were teeing off on those pitches last night. I am not saying forget the guy but I think we will have to have a guy soft tossing out there in the BP when we bring him in. The way they were hitting him I don't care what the numbers say on Sano get someone else in there. And if Banny is going to start throwing out numbers of a RH hitter doing worse against LH pitching well those same stats go out the door everytime we bring Freeman in to face a LHer.
The 2014 bad year is the one that makes it hard to spend big money on him. I will give him the benefit of the doubt in those years where we used him sporadically at times. It does take some guys a little longer to get acclimated to the big league. Cruz for example was one of those. So I will look past his early career struggles. Even our front office acknowledged that they knew he needed more consistent playing time to succeed than we were giving him back when we traded him.
