Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 08, 2005
Chris Young's Fatigue

Here's more information on why Chris Young was lifted so early from yesterday's game:

"It just wasn't worth the risk," Showalter said. ""I didn't like some of the things I was seeing."

What he saw in a scoreless first inning was a fastball that registered only 84-86 mph. Young had been regularly hitting 88-91 and touching as high as 94 on occasion.

Already figuring in were a pregame warning from pitching coach Orel Hershiser, who noticed a lack of life to Young's fastball in the bullpen, and the Rangers' already heightened state of awareness because of the rookie pitchers season-long workload.

Young entered with 153 2/3 innings this season, just 1 2/3 innings shy of last year's total, which was cobbled together at three levels.

I'd have to say good job on the part of the Rangers here. Something wasn't right, and they took action to prevent it from getting worse.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:08 AM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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Can anyone recall this ever happening before? We've seen the opposite over and over and over, but I can't recall a youg pitcher being protected this way despite the endless warning examples from Jamie Moyer to Kerry Wood and before and after...

Posted by: john swinney at September 8, 2005 11:17 AM
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