passion4baseball.blogspot.com - 6/8/2009
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Buster Olney mentioned in his blog yesterday that the great Mariano Rivera has lost some velocity on his cutter and it is not moving as much. According to Olney, that makes Rivera more vulnerable this year than in the past. Olney also points out that the pitcher is now 39 and this is to be ...
The Great Mariano Rivera
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/29/2009 — This writer has never hidden that fact that he is a Fan first and a reporter second. What this blog attempts to do is to give its readers informed observations from a fan's perspective. As such, it is impossible to hide the favorite players who creep into those observations from time to time. ...
Was Mariano Rivera too sick to pitch on Saturday?
subwaysquawkers.blogspot.com 6/8/2009 — There apparently is an explanation for why Mariano Rivera pitched so poorly on Saturday, and it has nothing to do with the Rays knowing how to hit him. Yahoo Sports' Tim Brown reports (hat tip to WasWatching.com ) that Rivera was ill: For several hours before Rivera took the ball Saturday ...
The Best Reliever Ever: Mariano Rivera
downswinging.com 6/29/2009 — Mariano Rivera is at 500 saves. It doesn’t matter though–we already knew just how great he was. Mariano, always professional, always calm, is the absolute epitome of the perfect closer. Mariano doesn’t need milestones, he’s better than that. It wasn’t like he ...
Morning Mariano Roundup
fackyouk.blogspot.com 6/29/2009 — I said my piece in last night's game recap , now let's hear what others are saying about Rivera's accomplishment on this Monday Mo'ning. ----- Shysterball : Mariano Rivera got his 500th save. More impressive: he drew a bases-loaded walk, giving him his first career RBI in 15 seasons. ...
Mariano Rivera’s Curious Rates
fangraphs.com 6/17/2009 — With the activation today of Brian Bruney from the disabled list and the designation of Jose Veras , I thought it a particularly good time to check in the end of the line of the Yankee’s bullpen, Mariano Rivera .
The first year into his ...
Mariano Rivera and the Tale of the Wandering Remote Control
heartbeatofthebronx.blogspot.com 7/2/2009 — Yankees closer Mariano Rivera has been deservedly credited with being the greatest relief pitcher of his generation. On Tuesday night, I believe he also became the first pitcher to ever throw out the ceremonial first pitch and throw the final pitch of a game. The honor of course stemmed from ...
Two Very Different Cutters
fangraphs.com 7/2/2009 — On the surface Mariano Rivera and Mark DiFelice should be two of the most similar pitchers in the game. They are both right-handed relief pitchers who throw a cutters almost exclusively, over 90% of the time. No other pitcher throws the cutter that ...
Harper : Time Is Catching Up WIth Rivera
cantstopthebleeding.com 6/7/2009 — While SI’s Jon Heyman ’s been tweeting that Mariano Rivera’s teammates have contradicted Joe Girardi’s claims his talismanic reliever didn’t mind being ordered to intentionally walk Evan Longoria during Saturday’s 9th inning capitulation to Tampa , the Daily ...
Mariano Rivera 500 Saves (Photos and Video)
sports.rightpundits.com 6/29/2009 — Mariano Rivera 500 saves put the closer in the books last night, as he became only the second player in history, behind Trevor Hoffman, to achieve the feat. Read more about the story plus see video of Mariano Rivera 500 saves and photos ...
Do Joe Girardi dis Mariano Rivera - or vice versa?
subwaysquawkers.blogspot.com 6/7/2009 — There's a whole to-do in the papers today about Joe Girardi having Mariano Rivera intentionally walk Evan Longoria to face B.J. Upton, and Rivera being not exactly pleased about it. Newsday's Ken Davidoff writes : ...Rivera, who complains about as often as Girardi contemplates getting a mohawk, ...
MO & JOE: 'RIFT' REALLY NO BIG DEAL —
NY Post: Sports 6/8/2009
> Joe Girardi didn't have an issue with Mariano Rivera saying he disagreed with the manager's call Saturday to have him intentionally walk Evan Longoria and instead face B.J. Upton. "I think people probably are making too much of it," ...
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