8/5 Games

[Chicago White Sox]

He was mid-90's as a starter when I saw him a year ago and hit something in the range of 97-98 with a fastball for his last strikeout of the game so he kept velocity for the full time. That'd be a huge dropoff just from "tired arm".

Well if it's more than a dead arm, then they should probably have him see a specialist. That a crazy drop in velocity, especially since he recently moved to the bullpen.

[southsider2k5]

Well if it's more than a dead arm, then they should probably have him see a specialist. That a crazy drop in velocity, especially since he recently moved to the bullpen.

 

Without knowing anything it sounds like a shoulder problem.

[Balta1701]

Without knowing anything it sounds like a shoulder problem.

My only guess was that they had him deliberately trying to cut back on the fastball velocity for control or movement reasons. Otherwise I'd have figured that "guy lost 10 mph for no obvious reason" would be a pretty good reason to a.) not call a guy up to the big leagues and b.) put said guy on the DL.

[southsider2k5]

My only guess was that they had him deliberately trying to cut back on the fastball velocity for control or movement reasons. Otherwise I'd have figured that "guy lost 10 mph for no obvious reason" would be a pretty good reason to a.) not call a guy up to the big leagues and b.) put said guy on the DL.

 

If we were talking about something under 5 mph, I could see that. At 10, something is wrong.