Bronson Arroyo is a product of the Red Sox hype machine. He's nothing but a mediocre pitcher overhyped because of the market he's in so needless to say I won't be targeting him.
Fat guy, no one likes a sore loser, first of all. And no one cares what Yankee fans think anyway.
After personally watching Arroyo pitch 7 innings of 4 hit, 2 run ball in Yank-me Stadium in September (the game that the 'Sox won in the 9th thanks to the Greatest Closer of All Time according to the New York Hype Machine, Mariano Rivera)... the skills are there. When he locates the 86-88 mph fastball on the corners and the curve is snapping over, he barely needs his change to keep even good lineups/hitters off balance. He is, hype or not, capable of winning 12 games, perhaps a couple more given the protection afforded him by HIS lineup. He is NOT an anchor for anyone's fantasy team of course, and if he indeed gets bumped by a rotation of Schilling, Clement, Miller, Fatso, and Wakefield... obviously that creates a problem. Between the injury risks of Mr. 3 Whopper a Day and his back... and Miller coming off the fraying in the shoulder... he'll get his starts. But because of the chances he's got to be #5 SP unless he wins a job straight out in camp. Those road splits are no joke; he did not pitch as well at Fenway... witnessed personally. Pay attention to his performances at home early in the year and see if the trend continues. I'll take him in the late rounds if he is still there, for certain...
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theowannabe23 wrote:Fat guy, no one likes a sore loser, first of all. And no one cares what Yankee fans think anyway.
After personally watching Arroyo pitch 7 innings of 4 hit, 2 run ball in Yank-me Stadium in September (the game that the 'Sox won in the 9th thanks to the Greatest Closer of All Time according to the New York Hype Machine, Mariano Rivera)... the skills are there. When he locates the 86-88 mph fastball on the corners and the curve is snapping over, he barely needs his change to keep even good lineups/hitters off balance. He is, hype or not, capable of winning 12 games, perhaps a couple more given the protection afforded him by HIS lineup. He is NOT an anchor for anyone's fantasy team of course, and if he indeed gets bumped by a rotation of Schilling, Clement, Miller, Fatso, and Wakefield... obviously that creates a problem. Between the injury risks of Mr. 3 Whopper a Day and his back... and Miller coming off the fraying in the shoulder... he'll get his starts. But because of the chances he's got to be #5 SP unless he wins a job straight out in camp. Those road splits are no joke; he did not pitch as well at Fenway... witnessed personally. Pay attention to his performances at home early in the year and see if the trend continues. I'll take him in the late rounds if he is still there, for certain...
Dont assume anything just by looking at an avatar. FGWM is no Yankee fan. That wasn't a good way to make a point about this, he voiced his opinion and I tend to agree that he has the stuff to be a good pitcher and should be a nice back end of rotation for fantasy teams, it's just that was a cheap shot at him and you aren't right about it.
Judging by your name it could be assumed that you are a red sox fan and are defending your postion as an anti-Yankee, but I wont touch it.
Forget the man crush. I drop what I'm doing to watch Zack Greinke pitch.
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OK Perlick, I'll give you that my assumption based on the avatar would be incorrect. Sorry about that. And clearly I'm in Red Sox heaven...
But I will point out that I only made one line about FatGuy out of that entire post... and by adding the stupid little emoticon, I was intending to denote sarcasm and tomfoolery... in other words I was just having a little fun.
The rest of the posting is based on Arroyo's skills and relative value... so no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
If there was any insult to FGWM, it is not my intention.
Additionally... I will diss the Yankees consistently. So if there are Yankee players on these chats, sorry about it, but I have no use for you clowns other than to be my personal pin cushion.
So, in short, I boo the Yankees, I was only being a typical New England smartass in picking on FGWM, and I hope there are no hard feelings.
And of course, go Sox.
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Transmogrifier wrote:Wakefield, not Arroyo, will be in the bullpen.
you wanna put money on that? Wake has been with the team for longer than anyone else. While I think Arroyo will eventually get into the rotation, wakefeild will start the year in the number 5 spot. Good Ole Boys like Tito like to give vets the chance to keep their spots while making young guns work for it.
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