Roy Oswalt

[mjsb2]

Neyer's article is a joke.

Elite hitters like Fielder mash against anybody, and the pitching advantage is nowhere near significant enough to expect it to have any noticeable impact on his numbers.

 

[kingofdetroit57]

biggunsbob[/color]]Oswalt is getting dumb advice.. He would win 15 games easy in this rotation and pitching in the AL central.

Instead of a Duck how about a alligator..

I've been hearing that he's got no interest in relieving and he wants to be close to his home in Mississippi. I'm sure we could work with the first demand, but we can't change geography.

I was reading up on him a little and found this blurb which was kinda funny...

"In 1999, when Oswalt was with the Class A Michigan Battle Cats in the Midwest League, he suffered an apparently serious shoulder injury. After a month of pain in his upper shoulder, Oswalt was convinced that his shoulder was torn. Shortly thereafter, he was checking the spark plug wires on his pickup truck. He touched one of the spark plug wires, causing the truck's engine to start. The truck's electric current flowed through Oswalt's body, and consequently the muscles in his hand tightened on the spark plug wire. Unable to let go of it, Oswalt grasped the wire for almost one minute. Oswalt then claimed his foot slipped off the truck's bumper and he was finally "thrown off." After the electric shock, Oswalt told his wife that his shoulder's condition improved and that he no longer felt any pain. According to Sports Illustrated, he reported it thus to his wife: "My truck done shocked the fire out of me, and my arm don't hurt no more."[2] Apparently, the electric charge loosened accumulated scar tissue in the shoulder. Oswalt claims he has not felt any pain in his shoulder since the incident.[3] He finished 1999 with 143 strikeouts and a club-high 13 wins."

 

[tomdalton22]

biggunsbob[/color]]Oswalt is getting dumb advice.. He would win 15 games easy in this rotation and pitching in the AL central.

Instead of a Duck how about a alligator..

I've been hearing that he's got no interest in relieving and he wants to be close to his home in Mississippi. I'm sure we could work with the first demand, but we can't change geography.

I was reading up on him a little and found this blurb which was kinda funny...

"In 1999, when Oswalt was with the Class A Michigan Battle Cats in the Midwest League, he suffered an apparently serious shoulder injury. After a month of pain in his upper shoulder, Oswalt was convinced that his shoulder was torn. Shortly thereafter, he was checking the spark plug wires on his pickup truck. He touched one of the spark plug wires, causing the truck's engine to start. The truck's electric current flowed through Oswalt's body, and consequently the muscles in his hand tightened on the spark plug wire. Unable to let go of it, Oswalt grasped the wire for almost one minute. Oswalt then claimed his foot slipped off the truck's bumper and he was finally "thrown off." After the electric shock, Oswalt told his wife that his shoulder's condition improved and that he no longer felt any pain. According to Sports Illustrated, he reported it thus to his wife: "My truck done shocked the fire out of me, and my arm don't hurt no more."[2] Apparently, the electric charge loosened accumulated scar tissue in the shoulder. Oswalt claims he has not felt any pain in his shoulder since the incident.[3] He finished 1999 with 143 strikeouts and a club-high 13 wins."

Maybe his truck had John Coffee powers!

 

[kingofdetroit57]

Great movie.