Singer looked nasty based on the highlights. Consistency will be the key….but when he is on he is certainly one of the better starters. Hopefully he learned something here after 3 years. They need to back off Snider for a little bit here in high leverage. He’s a good story but also pushing close to a 5 era now. Certainly it would help everyone if they could score more runs. But that doesn’t really look to be in the cards.
You have already spoke about Santana and Ohearn, so I won't waste any more words on those two. Vance Wilson is quickly becoming another coaching casualty possibility. The big thing yesterday, I thought from game 1, in the fifth inning was the fact the pitching coach or manager could have helped Heasley would have not pitched to Abreu. They had first base open at the time. Hus was screaming for it on the telecast. That move might have made line much better. It was certainly encouraging to see Singer look that good.
And since "change" is in the air with Singer and Alec, how about this compromise: Okay, okay, okay, we'll agree to keep O'hearn to protect whatever info/pics/what have you he has on someone in the front office. BUT, in return we ask for the following: 1 - He ONLY be allowed to pinch hit - NEVER START and 2 - Carlos DFA's and Vinnie to the bigs.
If we can't have it all, a little compromise can go a long way I say!
Apparently the Royals finally convinced Singer to develop a third pitch. How a kid starts for his high school team - let alone a major college and then four seasons in a major league organization - with only two pitches is baffling. Bubic finally developed a third pitch this year and Kowar is still in Omaha trying to learn one.
Everyone knows he needed to develop a third pitch. Why? He has two pitches, a good tailing two seam fastball at 96 and a good slider that obviously breaks the opposite direction as the FB and is considerably slower at 87 or so. What is the avg difference between a FB and a slider. Seems like 4-5 is more common.. Almost as much slower as a change up is to a fastball... as a hitter, I'd think it would be easy to tell the difference between the two. Slower- slider. Breaks right, two seamer. Even tho both are quality MLB pitches, all you had to do was identify early and sit on a mistake. His change up last night was essentially the same velo as his slider, but it tails like the two seamer. Its a third pitch that has similarities to both of the other pitches but important differences to the both also, so it becomes much harder as a hitter to quickly pick up the pitch type.
It was important that he had the kind of game he did last night so he he see the success. Tbh, other than not throwing the change down the middle, many of the 17 or whatever that he threw last night weren't exactly great changeups. It was thrown well enough to prove to him that it can be effective tho. I think Singer has a high floor. He has two above average pitches already. If he was your 5th starter the last two years.... he hasn't been exactly terrible with just the two pitches. If he can achieve some mastery of his change, idk maybe he's a 2nd or a 3rd starter. Maybe with 4 good starters we can actually start to win some games. Certainly more hopeful than depending on Carlos and Ryan to turn it all around.
Singer looked nasty based on the highlights. Consistency will be the key….but when he is on he is certainly one of the better starters. Hopefully he learned something here after 3 years. They need to back off Snider for a little bit here in high leverage. He’s a good story but also pushing close to a 5 era now. Certainly it would help everyone if they could score more runs. But that doesn’t really look to be in the cards.
You have already spoke about Santana and Ohearn, so I won't waste any more words on those two. Vance Wilson is quickly becoming another coaching casualty possibility. The big thing yesterday, I thought from game 1, in the fifth inning was the fact the pitching coach or manager could have helped Heasley would have not pitched to Abreu. They had first base open at the time. Hus was screaming for it on the telecast. That move might have made line much better. It was certainly encouraging to see Singer look that good.
And since "change" is in the air with Singer and Alec, how about this compromise: Okay, okay, okay, we'll agree to keep O'hearn to protect whatever info/pics/what have you he has on someone in the front office. BUT, in return we ask for the following: 1 - He ONLY be allowed to pinch hit - NEVER START and 2 - Carlos DFA's and Vinnie to the bigs.
If we can't have it all, a little compromise can go a long way I say!
Last night, I tried to guess who caught the doubleheader all those years ago. Mike Macfarlane? Tim Spehr? Sal Fasano? Brent Mayne? Pat Borders?
Henry Mercedes never even crossed my mind.
WE WON A BASEBALL GAME!
Singer has earned himself AT LEAST two more starts based on his performance, and man do we need some stable starting pitching right now.
Moore a couple days ago: There are times it's unacceptable to strike out.
Royals: Like with the bases loaded and nobody out?
Royals: Or like with the bases loaded and one out?
*headdesk*
Apparently the Royals finally convinced Singer to develop a third pitch. How a kid starts for his high school team - let alone a major college and then four seasons in a major league organization - with only two pitches is baffling. Bubic finally developed a third pitch this year and Kowar is still in Omaha trying to learn one.
Some thoughts on Singer.....
Everyone knows he needed to develop a third pitch. Why? He has two pitches, a good tailing two seam fastball at 96 and a good slider that obviously breaks the opposite direction as the FB and is considerably slower at 87 or so. What is the avg difference between a FB and a slider. Seems like 4-5 is more common.. Almost as much slower as a change up is to a fastball... as a hitter, I'd think it would be easy to tell the difference between the two. Slower- slider. Breaks right, two seamer. Even tho both are quality MLB pitches, all you had to do was identify early and sit on a mistake. His change up last night was essentially the same velo as his slider, but it tails like the two seamer. Its a third pitch that has similarities to both of the other pitches but important differences to the both also, so it becomes much harder as a hitter to quickly pick up the pitch type.
It was important that he had the kind of game he did last night so he he see the success. Tbh, other than not throwing the change down the middle, many of the 17 or whatever that he threw last night weren't exactly great changeups. It was thrown well enough to prove to him that it can be effective tho. I think Singer has a high floor. He has two above average pitches already. If he was your 5th starter the last two years.... he hasn't been exactly terrible with just the two pitches. If he can achieve some mastery of his change, idk maybe he's a 2nd or a 3rd starter. Maybe with 4 good starters we can actually start to win some games. Certainly more hopeful than depending on Carlos and Ryan to turn it all around.