I'm itching for baseball

Well, that's why I kept it at "good" and not great. Guidry nor Posada call a great game. That was part of my point. It's not as bad as Javy Lopez, but it's nothing to be happy about either. Joba shook off many pitches because they were trying to get him to expand his pitches, but his confidence wasn't all that yet with the other pitches. Guidry and Posada, I read in the Post IIRC, forced him into those pitches and he refused for the most part. I don't really blame the kid given the situation he and the team were in for most of last season.

Very true about setting up pitchers though. You can't setup anyone with just two pitches, I don't care how good your location is. There are some who can, but not very many. Joba will be good and I hope he gets a pitching coach that is better than Guidry IMO.


Yeah, only using two pitches won't play mind games with too many batters. He got by on raw stuff last year. Posada is a decent game caller, and I agree about Guidry. I really think the new pitching coach Dave Eiland will be great for the young guys, since he knows their mechanics inside and out from the minors.