Baggarly with a nice article in the Athletic says that Kapler separates his pitchers into 3 buckets -- sprint pitchers, leverage pitchers, and bulk innings pitchers. Apparently Peralta was considered a "leverage" pitcher and thus although he was warmed up, he wasn't right for that situation.
This whole approach of Kapler's kind of gives me the same feeling some of you oldsters might remember when "new math" took over in the curricula. We were learning set theory in grade school but some folks still can't balance their checkbooks without a calculator 50 years later.
Kapler basically quoted as saying that Coonrod has the 97+ mph heater and nothing else, and lacks the consistent ability to throw strikes. Time to send him down to learn a second pitch and some control. Apparently the walk off HR was a fat changeup over the plate.
But as OF pointed out, why obsess over the right to probably get obliterated by the Dodgers next week? I'd rather not play the Dodgers than lose to them.
This whole approach of Kapler's kind of gives me the same feeling some of you oldsters might remember when "new math" took over in the curricula. We were learning set theory in grade school but some folks still can't balance their checkbooks without a calculator 50 years later.
Kapler basically quoted as saying that Coonrod has the 97+ mph heater and nothing else, and lacks the consistent ability to throw strikes. Time to send him down to learn a second pitch and some control. Apparently the walk off HR was a fat changeup over the plate.
But as OF pointed out, why obsess over the right to probably get obliterated by the Dodgers next week? I'd rather not play the Dodgers than lose to them.