Post subject: *** Official Random ST notes not worth their own thread***
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:28 am
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DPLennon Matt Harvey developed a sinker this winter. Makes that coffee taste a little better this morning, doesn't it ... #mets 3 seconds ago · reply · retweet · favorite
Sounds good to me
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Post subject: Re: *** Official Random ST notes not worth their own thread*
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:39 am
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Sounds like it's actually a 2 seamer.
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AdamRubinESPN Matt Harvey knew his fastball was up in the zone too much and AA hitters hurt him on it. So he worked this offseason on a two-seamer. 10 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite
If he's going to be working with a new pitch then it makes even more sense to leave him at AA.
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Post subject: Re: *** Official Random ST notes not worth their own thread*
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:56 am
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Metro2007 wrote:
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DPLennon Matt Harvey developed a sinker this winter. Makes that coffee taste a little better this morning, doesn't it ... #mets 3 seconds ago · reply · retweet · favorite
Sounds good to me
Nice. Was just reading Goldstein's Harvey scouting report again. He raves about the slider. A 2-seamer with tail would really play off of that and jam righties. But seems like KG's heard concerns about Harvey vs. lefties so what I'd really love to hear is his changeup has improved. This is still nice, though. He's young enough that "working on new pitch x" stories are noteworthy.
Also just wanted to say thanks, Metro, for always posting so many tidbits.
Post subject: Re: *** Official Random ST notes not worth their own thread*
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:01 am
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OlStubbleBeard wrote:
Metro2007 wrote:
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DPLennon profile
DPLennon Matt Harvey developed a sinker this winter. Makes that coffee taste a little better this morning, doesn't it ... #mets 3 seconds ago · reply · retweet · favorite
Sounds good to me
Nice. Was just reading Goldstein's Harvey scouting report again. He raves about the slider. A 2-seamer with tail would really play off of that and jam righties. But seems like KG's heard concerns about Harvey vs. lefties so what I'd really love to hear is his changeup has improved. This is still nice, though. He's young enough that "working on new pitch x" stories are noteworthy.
Also just wanted to say thanks, Metro, for always posting so many tidbits.
No problem. This year I'm really going to have limited interest in the big club in terms of minor details (ie I'm not going to be checking when Scott Hairston comes off the DL) but the minors keep me sane lol... plus Jeremy Lin has allowed me to have less of a "now comes no good sports for a long, long time"
As for Harvey- it seems like he's more of a work in progress than some people wanted to believe. Not a knock at all, if anything it's nice to know he realizes he has a lot of work to do. We'd all rather watch Matt Harvey then Chris Schwinden but I want finished product (or close to it) Matt Harvey vs. the initial interest in a young player and then the player struggling. If Harvey isn't ready to truly help the Mets until 2013 so be it.
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Post subject: Re: *** Official Random ST notes not worth their own thread*
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:04 am
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So many angles this morning already and its only 10AM!
I'm thinking maybe the ITBSOHL stuff should probably just go in here, along with "Added a new pitch" stuff, as well as "going back to the bread n butter of yesteryear" stuff (aka, the Pelf stories).
Redemption, Improvement, Growth, guys ready to "Seize Opportunities" - its spring training, folks!!
Petey: How hard were you throwing out there in the fall?
Rob: Actually I was surprised but the guy told me I had touched 100, like two or three times, you know.
Petey: Seriously?
Rob: Yeah man, I hit a hundred two or three times and I was sittin’ like 95 to like 98, out of the bullpen.
Petey: Wow!
Rob: So, it was kinda amazing to me too, the highest I ever did as a starter was like 97, that was the highest I ever topped out at, and I was consistently like 93 to 95. Then after I went to the bullpen it went up a little bit. So it was kinda fun, you know guys coming up to me, “Hey you just joined the hundred-mile power club.” And me being left-handed, that’s kinda cool man.
Harvey already gets a good amount of groundballs and Law praised him for getting good downhill plane on his fastball. I figured he already threw one.
OSB: Keith Law seemed to think his changeup was better than his breaking ball(s). In his write-up on Harvey in his Top 100 he wrote:
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...his changeup is a weapon for him against both left- and right-handed hitters. His curve and slider tend to run together, and he'd probably be better off just picking one or the other and using it exclusively to avoid throwing in-between pitches that will get hammered at higher levels.
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