Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Both closers sucked ...

But according to this guy, Kerry Wood giving up 3 runs shouldn't worry anyone, because he'll settle in. Eric Gagne giving up 3 runs is the end of the world.

Of course Gagne's performance is scary for Brewer fans. And if he continues to put up outings like that, there will be problems. But I'm not ready to jump on the Gagne-haters bandwagon just yet. He doesn't play winter ball. He uses ST appearances to focus specifically on one pitch at a time, so I don't worry to much about bad spring training. Hell, Sheets had a crappy ST too, and his day went ok. I'll give Gagne a few outings to get his location down.

It's a small thing, but Eric did pull things under control after that home run. It was a little bit on the too-little-too-late side, but Turnbow wouldn't have been able to do that.

So though the appearance was extremely disheartening, I do find some positives to it, so I'll wait and see.

Besides, Salomon Torres, David Riske and Guillermo Mota had great outings. Mota's stuff was just plain sick. The ball had so much movement on it. Sick.

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