David Price Forgets To Bring His Slider; Ervin Santana Blanks The Rays.

and mows down the punchless Rays with a CG 3 hitter

Pathetic, disgraceful and embarrasing

What did i miss?

Ultimately, I’m a little disheartened because I know this past winter, when I was negotiating with the Phillies, this was a sore thumb, if you will, about this potentially happening," Moyer said. "You can’t promise anything in this game, but I really felt that Ruben kind of parlayed to me that this type of situation would not happen."

Moyer was told Monday he would be going to the bullpen. The recently signed Martinez, a three-time Cy Young winner, will start in his place.

Of course Moyer is a 20+ year veteran and has earned his right to speak, but is this all that different from what BJ said?

WE SUCK! I HATE THIS TEAM! I HATE STATS! I HATE ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!!

PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since this post is David Price specific, I’ll focus on him. I see that David brought out the knuckle curve once eh? He did the same thing in the minors when he lost his slider, he never did say that he found it down there. David’s fine physically and mechanically so I’ll just focus on the mental aspect which I focus on. David’s last few press conference all sounded the same, “I threw pitches and they hit them, I let myself and the team down, I’ll pitch better next game.” You can’t go into the game with the mind set that you have to pitch well. You’ll start to think certain strikes you usually throw will be balls when actually they’ll paint the corner, so you go for the sure strikes that’ll lead to base hits. You saw that a lot when Gregg Zaun asked for the fastball inside while David threw it outside instead. I suggested this at Rays Index, and I dunno if anyone has any contacts in the Rays staff, but this should be fowarded. David’s pitching for a paycheck and his job out there, and not for fun like he was last season. He says pressure motivates him more than it intimidates him, but that’s not all true either, at least not under the right circumstances. He looked like a Yankee pitcher last year really. Pitch well, do one thing wrong, and you worry about how it’ll be taken by the coaches or the manager since the bullpen overall has been solid and they’d have no problem replacing you to keep the offense in the ball game, so he pressures himself more to pitching to get the ball in play, while forgetting he does have the strike out. He’s an in between pitcher. Trying to get something besides a groundball or a flyball. A pitcher who pitches for contact gets groundballs, while a strikeout pitcher gets fly balls. He’s in between what he can do and what he should do, which is leading to base hits since that’s what’s in between a ground ball and a fly ball. So enough of the mental analysis and to what he should do. Talk to pitchers after everyone of his half innings. Joke around with them. Talk with his coaches. Joke around with them. Get into the groove that this isn’t just a job, but it’s the same sport he played in college. It’s still a sport for fun and not to take like a 9 to 5 job. Maybe get into competitions with other pitchers. Tell Niemann that after what he does out on the mound, he wont be able to out perform his start which would start a domino effect of motivation. Price pitches out there with a feeling of something to compete for and get his mind off of the pennant race and just pitch for the competitivness and the fun of baseball. This wasn’t really a rant, but actually a psychiatric evaluation. If you do have the time, I hope you appreciate the read and give opinions on my evaluation to better help my understanding of a players mind set. Thank you.

He’s young and he needs to take more pitches and when he sees the ball, he should hit the ball. Um, that’s about it. I’m just kidding. This might sound stupid, but the guys should rag on how bad he is in the dugout. Tell him he can’t get on base even after a fourth ball (Doesn’t make sense, but you get the point.) Give B.J. something to compete for. Have Crawford say to Upton that he can’t get on base as much as he can the next few games. Be immature in the dugout so you can leave all immaturity in there. Come out meaning business and wanting to shut up CC in the dugout. Give him something to compete for instead of just grounding out and lolly gagging with your head down back to the dugout. My main analysis for every player is going to be find something else competitive to do with a team mate and just have fun except for Pat Burrell. I don’t know what the fuck is up with him. Nobody should have to say what he has to do, he’s been in Philly with rough crowds his whole career and he hit well. Dude just pisses me off.

Used to posting in Rays Index where grammar doesn’t matter…sorry Cork.

I’m better with the mentality of a pitcher since I’m a pitcher myself. I’m a big guy, but I have only learned to throw a fastball and a circle change so far and I can only touch 74 with my fastball in the radar gun. Mainly because I haven’t been working out like I should, but I still get the job done by only focusing on pitching for contract.

Since David wants to do both, he should only do it via situation. Go for the strike out from your full motion, and then pitch for contact from the stretch. You can’t just randomly decide mid sequence what you want to do. If I did that, I’d be warming up my bullpen.

you all could live with that and make perdectly logical sense of it