PD DeRosa Interview

Thoughts:

-Mark shares our collective mencrush on Grady.
-This I feel is a given.

-He feels very comfortable hitting second, especially in this lineup.
-He seems pretty optimistic and hopeful (naive?) about Hafner.
-Uh-Oh

-He's not the most eloquent, camera savvy guy on the team
-I'm relatively surprised by this.
-Is he dipping?

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I’m trying to work on my stylization – anyone know how to indent, specifically the second and third “bullet point subcomments”?

by thevicar on Feb 28, 2009 3:36 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

interesting at the end. . . derosa’s talking about westbrook and how highly he thinks of him, and then says something to the effect of “you don’t see too many sinkerball lefties.”

now, is mark just confused, or did the PD splice in another section of the interview where he was talking about laffey?

by Cap'n Snegiryov on Feb 28, 2009 3:45 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

"you don’t see too many sinkerball lefties."

either way, this is an interesting observation.

Travis Hafner is overrated. Clarity is underrated. David Dellucci is David Dellucci.

by westbrook on Feb 28, 2009 4:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Given that Westbrook is a righty – that seems like a correct observation

by APV on Feb 28, 2009 4:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

right, but it seemed like a non-sequitur to me.

like, derosa’s thought process went from :

indians players good -→ jake westbrook tough to face -— > don’t see many left handed sinkerballers

perhaps there were a few implied steps in the logic there, such as “i am mark derosa, a right handed batter. right handed sinkerballers like jake westbrook are tough on right handed batters. i would like to face a left handed sinkerballer!”

(insert between second and third steps above)

it just seemed like a weird place for that observation. whatevs.

by Cap'n Snegiryov on Feb 28, 2009 4:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

maybe he has schizophrenia

by hans on Mar 1, 2009 3:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

DeRosa blew the Tribe’s secret. Jake is returning as a switch-pitcher

by Roger Dorn on Feb 28, 2009 4:43 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

I interpreted it as a joke, i.e., Westbrook can’t throw right-handed right now, but he could throw left-handed (in theory).

by CaptainPenny on Feb 28, 2009 6:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I’d say this is probably a good interpretation of the comment.

by matt7 on Mar 1, 2009 4:57 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

No, I’m pretty sure my interpretation below is the correct one.

by jefftribe on Mar 1, 2009 5:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I’m with Jeff. He’s saying he struggles against the sinker, and he has success against lefties in part because there aren’t many sinkerball lefties.

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

by Jay on Mar 1, 2009 7:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks, Jay. We finally agree. Publicly, anyway

by jefftribe on Mar 1, 2009 9:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I’m guessing that the question had to do with why DeRosa hits lefties so well. He struggles against a guy like Jake Westbrook, who throws the sinker, and since there aren’t many sinker-throwing lefties, he has success against them. I think that’s what he meant.

by jefftribe on Feb 28, 2009 6:08 PM EST reply actions 0 recs