{"id":4722,"date":"2011-09-02T14:35:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T19:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=4722"},"modified":"2011-09-02T14:02:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T19:02:48","slug":"changeups-and-screwballs-a-southpaw%e2%80%99s-perspective-for-9211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/4722","title":{"rendered":"Changeups and Screwballs: A Southpaw\u2019s Perspective for 9\/2\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stephen Strasburg<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s final rehab start has come and gone.\u00a0 He again looked supreme in comparison to the hitters he faced.\u00a0 He even appears to have more of a mental edge after recovering from Tommy John.\u00a0 Watching the way he carried himself, and the mound presence he exuded, gave me goose bumps.\u00a0 MLB hitters be wary.\u00a0 Strasburg is about to eat your soul.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Had a conversation with a friend last night and discussed what it was like to face Matthew Moore as a senior in high school.\u00a0 My friend faced him twice that year and said he went from being \u201c\u2026Unreal the first time I faced him\u2026to absolutely unhittable the next time I faced him.\u201d\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait to see how Moore does with the Rays.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tim Lincecum<\/a><\/strong> has finally reached stardom- sort of.\u00a0 He has his own t-shirt<\/a>. \u00a0The sillohette is pretty good, including the fantastic job they did with his hair.\u00a0 However, $38 for a t-shirt is stupid.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anybody who says the power\/speed guy is history has no idea what they are talking about.\u00a0 The 20\/20 guy is alive and well in major league baseball.\u00a0 There are currently seven players who have already reached this mark with more than 15 others who are a mere five HR\u2019s or SB\u2019s shy of reaching the milestone.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s no wonder the White Sox are struggling the way they are.\u00a0 They are rostering three of the most detrimental players in the game.\u00a0 Adam Dunn<\/a><\/strong>, Alex Rios, and Juan Pierre<\/a><\/strong> have all posted negative fWAR\u2019s so far this season.\u00a0 Adam Dunn at -2.6, Rios at -1.2, and Pierre at -0.1.\u00a0\u00a0 Good luck getting that extension Ozzie Guillen.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Goodbye Carlos Zambrano<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 The Cubs have said he will not pitch again this season- yet they will still pay him.\u00a0 Sounds like a cushy job.\u00a0 Until you realize that we won\u2019t be seeing anything like this<\/a> again this season.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stephen Strasburg\u2019s final rehab start has come and gone.\u00a0 He again looked supreme in comparison to the hitters he faced.\u00a0 He even appears to have more of a mental edge after recovering from Tommy John.\u00a0 Watching the way he carried himself, and the mound presence he exuded, gave me goose bumps.\u00a0 MLB hitters be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2661,1300,17,6,11,13,10,14],"tags":[155,837,2398,264,315,1373,2447,265,42,549,196,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4724,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722\/revisions\/4724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}