Under The Knife: Knowable Risks by Will Carroll

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The Day After: Continued reaction on the Cubs trade for Rich Harden & Chad Gaudin
Published 7/10/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (jumbo) at Towel Drills: A Chicago Cubs Blog
... who wasn't doing anything to convince people he's the next Jeff Goldbach, let alone that he might become a prospect. noted in January, theirs isn't a great farm system, and even if you're landing And finally from BP is Will Carroll's view on the deal through his injury lense: There's one constant meme within the discussion of the Harden-to-Cubs deal. That is that the A's, understanding Harden's medical ...

On Wednesday, There Was a Lot to Hear about Harden
Published 7/10/2008 by Cubnut (noreply@blogger.com) at A Hundred Next Years
... Harden has reduced the number of sliders significantly, from 10.7% to just 5.5%. He has also cut down drastically on the number of split-finger pitches he throws, from 18% to a paltry 7%. And while, if we are to believe Randy Bush, Harden is not a strict fastball/change-up thrower, he is throwing many more change-ups than he was back in '05: from 9% to around 25%. A couple more notes on Harden. First, this one from Will Carroll, writing Wednesday for Baseball Prospectus: The Cubs, clearly in a win-now mode, got an upgrade with some ...

Technicolor
Published 7/11/2008 by Jay (noreply@blogger.com) at The Futility Infielder
... in that category despite a month on the DL. Health is the rub , of course; Harden's thrown more innings this year than in 2006 and 2007 combined, and his last two starts have been iffy, with ...