Did Twins Lie To Rays about Garza's Health?
by SteveHoffmanSlowey on Apr 9, 2008 11:22 PM EDT
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PrintSo with Garza now currently on the 15 day DL, because of a pinched nerve in his right (throwing) arm. Was it or was it not a direct result from last season's late arm problems?
Obviously Ron Gardenhire has stated he had NO idea about any such thing concerning Garza and claims if Garza's telling the Truth he should have told the Twins about his arm.
My take on it is that Someone in the Twins organization knew something about Garza that the Rays did not before dealing him anyway to the Rays for essentialy DelmonYoung.
But Hey, the Rays knew that Matt Garza had neck Problems and other little nagging injuries early on in 2007 anyway...and its not like the Twinks are taking in return some kind of guaranteed superstar or guaranteeed "good guy' -clubhouse leader in Delmon.
Thoughts?
and in your opinion who will have the Better Career?
1. Garza or Young?
2. Eduardo Morlan or Brendon Harris?
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In my opinion
you have zero evidence for making a supposition like this, and it's defamatory and completely lacking in justification.
Knowing that a guy has nagging injury problems is not even in the same class as knowing someone is damaged goods. Why would you even make a case for this?
+1
Practically every player has a nagging injury that they have dealt with in the past. - teams don't make lists of every possible soreness a player has had before trading them. It's not as if they unloaded him with a torn rotator cuff.
Just an ignorant discussion.
LOL
That sounds like sour grapes....was nothing wrong with Meyer and the A's don't have any room to talk after seeing what happens to a much larger percentage of their players after leaving Oakland.
Everybody has nagging injuries
If the Twins documented every hang nail or bad-pillow neck on every player they traded, nobody would get dealt.
My take: Garza's a head case and a whiner. The Twins knew that when they traded him. Last year at this time, he was complaining about getting sent down because of nagging injuries in spring training. When people interviewed him, he revealed for the first time that his arm was sore and worn out the year before, which, in his head, was the reason he struggled in his major league starts in 2006.
The reason he struggles is he's obstinate. He doesn't listen to coaches who say you can't just blow the ball by guys in the majors. The Twins finally got tired of his act and traded him for a future star. End of story.
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
If the Twins get Young back....
Then the Mets should get Kazmir back. Effing Zambrano....
Morlan
Just as an FYI, "Eddie" Morlan is throwing 91-92 in Montgomery ... not the 96-97 I heard from his days with the Twins.
He was doing that for the Twins too. He can still sit in the mid-90's from what I understand, but he has no idea where it's going. So the Twins got him to sacrifice velocity for control and he's still doing that for the Rays. Not all that encouraging if you're looking at him as a future closer, but he can still be very useful
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thats typical of most pitchers
there are VERY few guys that always throw 96-97.
A guy hits 96 and suddenly everyone goes around saying he has a 96 mph fastball, forgetting that that is a peak number
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