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Bert Blyleven could have a good year next year. Hall Of Fame? No longer the only pitcher to allow 50 home runs in a season? I wonder if the Rockies studied the relative success of ground ball/fly ball pitchers in Coors before making this signing.
Jayson Stark always gives you a lot to chew on. He is essentially what Gammons once was.
How will Denny Neagle survive in the semi-weightless confines of Coors Field? Well, he'll earn those 51.5 million bucks. Put it that way.
Neagle was one of only four pitchers in the big leagues to give up more than 300 fly ball this past season. (Rick Helling, Robert Person and El Duque Hernandez were the others.) And no pitcher allowed more fly balls than Neagle, who gave up 346 of them.
Pedro Astacio gave up almost half as many fly balls (175), had the best ground-ball/fly-ball ratio on the Rockies' staff and still served up 32 homers. Phew.
Coors. It's not a home field. It's an adventure.
Bert Blyleven could have a good year next year. Hall Of Fame? No longer the only pitcher to allow 50 home runs in a season? I wonder if the Rockies studied the relative success of ground ball/fly ball pitchers in Coors before making this signing.
Jayson Stark always gives you a lot to chew on. He is essentially what Gammons once was.
posted by Sean Foran # 11:42 AM 
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