BDD: The Jamie Moyer Cure
by Bill Baer on August 5th, 2009Posted in Baseball Daily Digest, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | Print | No Comments »
At Baseball Daily Digest, I find a cure for Jamie Moyer’s struggles.
I’ve been hearing fans say that Moyer is finished and that the Phillies should kick him out of the rotation. Nonsense. Most pitchers rely on their fastball first and their off-speed stuff second, so when their fastball goes, they go. Moyer is the opposite; his stuff doesn’t change much. His fastball has averaged the same velocity since 2007 and has only lost about 1.5 MPH since 2002. Randy Johnson, he of an unmatchable fastball back in the 1990’s, has lost about 4.5 MPH off of his in that same time span.
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