Gregg - Frontrunner for Closer Role

by Obscurity on Feb 25, 2007 10:21 PM PST

Kevin Gregg is apparently the heir apparent to the closer role for the Marlins, according to MLB.com

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070223&content_id=1813360&vkey=spt2007news&fex t=.jsp&c_id=fla&partnered=rss_fla

It's quite ironic if this happens, again. Jenks, Turnbow and possibley Gregg? Who knows though. That's a scary thought though.

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They can have him

A sinkerballer as a closer - you better have the most agile catcher in baseball behind the plate with the tying or winning run on third and a fastball-hitting lefty at the plate, because the ball is going to droop into the dirt.

by Rev Halofan on Feb 25, 2007 10:44 PM PST reply actions

As though

Frankie's slider isn't hard to catch.

Fire Mickey Hatcher. An entire generation of Angels offense depends upon it.

by scareduck on Feb 26, 2007 8:25 AM PST up reply actions

Game 5 of the 2002 ALCS

scareduck makes a good point - i won't forget this.

TWINS 7TH: Hunter flied to
right; Mientkiewicz singled to center; Mohr singled to center
[Mientkiewicz to second]; Pierzynski singled to right
[Mientkiewicz to third, Mohr to second]; KIELTY BATTED FOR
RIVAS; RODRIGUEZ REPLACED DONNELLY (PITCHING); Kielty walked
[Mientkiewicz scored, Mohr to third, Pierzynski to second];
Rodriguez threw a wild pitch [Mohr scored, Pierzynski to third,
Kielty to second]; Jones hit a sacrifice fly to center
[Pierzynski scored]; Guzman grounded out (second to first); 3 R,
3 H, 0 E, 1 LOB. Twins 5, Angels 3.

i was there and remember how Frankie, instead of becoming a sensation in October 2002, was about to become Donnie Moore II. Two Kennedy HRs weren't enough - it took a 3rd and the wild 7th, or else it was back to the Twin Cities and our legacy of coughing up playoff series leads could have continued to this day.

there are a lot of other examples of Frankie's wild side costing us as well.

by rbrianc on Feb 26, 2007 10:43 AM PST up reply actions

I will take Frankie

Slider and all.

by Rev Halofan on Feb 26, 2007 11:29 AM PST up reply actions

me too

and geez, ya think the catcher we had back there had much to do with it?

i just remember how close we were to disaster that day thanks to that devastating slider.

But it made the bottom of the 7th all the more enjoyable.

to me, that game of getting into the WS was every bit as enjoyable of winning it all. if not more so.

by rbrianc on Feb 26, 2007 2:21 PM PST up reply actions

Comparing

apples to radios.

Jenks & Turnbow had a combined 59 2/3 IP with the Halos, all of those accumulated by the latter in three separate stints over five seasons. The Angels gave up on the potential of those two, and at this point, only Jenks looks like a major league pitcher. Turnbow had a good half season.

We all know exactly what the Angels gave up in Gregg, and that's a relatively durable and versatile but decidedly unspectacular pitcher. He's thrown 255 IP, all for the Angels. And in that time, he has proven to be basically a league-average guy. He's walked 86 and thrown 24 WP in that time. He's heading into his age 29 season, so he isn't likely to get any better. Just because the Marlins might install him as their closer does not establish that the guy's abilities are anything other than what they are.

In Chris Resop, the Angels got a guy who could turn into Kevin Gregg in another year or two, should they need him, but right now the Angels' pen wouldn't even have room for a Kevin Gregg.

by jjackflash on Feb 26, 2007 12:16 AM PST reply actions