Sunday, May 8, 2011

Hendu's Call and Paulino

Last night after the Rockies game I got a phone call from an irate individual. It sounded like Earl Weaver on the other end.
There were f-bombs galore and it was a verbal tirade directed, not at me fortunately, but at the Rockies, specifically Rockies pitcher Felipe Paulino.
Ed Henderson was stewing and he wasn't very happy at all. I'd like to write what he said but it wouldn't be very pretty.
Needless to say, Hendu is very frustrated by the Rockies coughing up games late. He was especially harsh on Paulino and I don't blame him.
I'll be honest as honest can be here. Felipe Paulino is wretched. He can't pitch at all. In clutch situations he tenses up and makes bad pitches. He's a loser. I hate to be so harsh but that's a fact. After losing last night's game, 3-2 to the Giants, Paulino this season is a gruesome 0-3 with an ERA of 7.59. He's allowed 18 hits and 5 walks in 10.2 innings of work.
So you think that it's just a bad stretch? Think again. Paulino, in his 4 year career which started with the Astros, is now 6-24 with a bloated ERA of 5.92. He's 27 so it doesn't look like the light bulb is going to go off anytime soon.
But he has great stuff! Who gives a crap? He can't get anybody out. When he comes into a game you can feel the air being sucked out of the team. He's flat out awful and if I were the Rockies braintrust I would release him. Yesterday.

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