How the scouts viewed Randy Johnson

[HoustonGM]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/colum...8&sportCat=mlb

Interesting stuff.

[TheNamelessPoet]

I read that this morning lol... pretty interesting article

[Sipimi]

Good article. I remember our Little League coach insisting on the importance of control and telling us not to pitch like Randy Johnson, which just had something like 1 BB per inning pitched for the last two seasons with the Expos.

When he was traded, almost everybody was happy getting Mark Langston (who stayed only one year in MTL)...until Randy proved us all wrong.

[200tang]

Good article. I remember our Little League coach insisting on the importance of control and telling us not to pitch like Randy Johnson, which just had something like 1 BB per inning pitched for the last two seasons with the Expos.

When he was traded, almost everybody was happy getting Mark Langston (who stayed only one year in MTL)...until Randy proved us all wrong.

Well he wouldn't have been all that amazing if he had never fixed it. It was way to early to give up on him, but you can thank the Mariners for giving you all a glimpse at godly pitching

[QHowes]

I believe the scouts said the same thing about Tim Lincecum's delivery, in terms of being prone to injuries. Perhaps not the best comparison given Lincecum's short time in the league but I am sure we can all agree these are the only two pitchers to have been labeled like that.

[HoustonGM]

I believe the scouts said the same thing about Tim Lincecum's delivery, in terms of being prone to injuries. Perhaps not the best comparison given Lincecum's short time in the league but I am sure we can all agree these are the only two pitchers to have been labeled like that.

Huh? You mean are "not" the only two pitchers labeled like that?

[dps]

Part of it was just that the scouts felt that no pitcher that tall could actually be any good. In a way, that's strange, because scouts usually fell that "the good big man will beat the good little man", which is usually true. The scouts felt that a pitcher that tall would be an exception to the rule, because they felt that long body would be so stressed by the torque generated by pitching that he'd have a lot of injury problems.

[QHowes]

Huh? You mean are "not" the only two pitchers labeled like that?

OOPS! Yes I meant are "not".