Well Koch is biggest problem this year was that he had last hgis fastball meaning it fellf rom 97-100 to 90-93. The reason I said I think he is coming back is because he is getting the speed back on his fastball..
Before I write this post let me say that I am happy that we kept Colon and hope we can resign him because IMO he is a top 5 RHP in the AL.
But for the people who thought that we couldn't have gotten Williams and Foppert for Colon what do you think now, especially after they just traded Moss and Ainsworth for a guy who has good potential but hasn't done much in his career.
Again I am glad we kept Colon, just wanted to say that.
No one said we wanted to trade Crede. The deal was Rauch, Diaz, and Ginter for Boone and Sullivan. So Crede would stay. And besides 29 to 30 isn't an ageing 3rd baseman
Of cousre he wasn't because he didn't realize what was happining till the Boone deal came up. And once he figured it out he critized them for everything they were doing.
If Koch gets it together he's our closer in my book.
I like flash better as the closer, just for the simple reason he has a 96MPH fastball with movement, one of the best curves in the game, and a changeup.
Chicago White Sox: Now just two games in back of Kansas City, the White Sox would like very much to add another starting pitcher. Tops on their list is Jeff Suppan -- who, if a poll were taken today -- may well be America's most talked about man. Teddy Greenstein of the Chicago Tribune reports that general manager Kenny Williams has been working the phones and is still very much in the trader mode in the weeks following his deals for Roberto Alomar and Carl Everett.
For a little left hander last night he was throwing hard. His fastball was consistenly clocking at 95mph on the Fox Sports net broadcast. I don't know if this was just because he was pumped to pitch for a new team or not but if he can do this every night we would have 4 guys in the Bullpen throwing over 95. And even better 2 from each side(Gordon and Koch from the right side) and Marte and Showenwies from the left.
BTW Koch did well last night in the last inning even though he had no pressure. He got 3 straight outs in the 9th and his fastball was alos hitting in the high 90s.