In an article I wrote on Thursday, I went out of my way to discuss non-roster invitee, Chris Narveson. Well guess what? It looks like McCalvey is on my bandwagon over at the Brewers' official website after Narveson flew through 4 scoreless innings against the Rangers today, meaning he's pitched 9.0 innings and only given up one earned run. Don't be surprised to hear the JS start talking about him too. Sometimes all it takes is a healthy spell for a guy to find his way in the bigs. Just ask Salomon Torres. Nevertheless, he's going to make it hard on guys like Vargas, Capuano and Bush, who are clear trade bait since they've been struggling this Spring. Though Vargas pitched a healthy 5.0 scoreless/hitless innings today against the Mariners, including an 0 for 2 for Ichiro Suzuki. He must have had some nasty stuff and finally good control. Throw in two scoreless innings from Gagne and Turnbow, with no walks from either, and the pitcher's rocked today.
Looks like things are coming around as they let their arms go a bit. A little less that 22 days til Opening Day. Can you feel it?
2 comments:
Narveson is nock nock nocking on Brewer's door. There, I exhausted my daily cliche headline fix. Talk about blowing it....Talking about Capuano and Bush. I might jump on your bandwagon and start a voting for Parra and Villanueva Now...I feel like the Jimi Hendrix lyric..."got me flipping like a flag on a pole" when considering Villanueva. Febrauary we read and hear that he earned his spot in the rotation with last September's quality starts and now Yost throws some smokes and mirrors our way or maybe it's nothing but hot air. I have the impression that Yost intentionally confuses the media and the fans who read the media print...all so he can earn some privacy...People tend to stop asking questions when they come to expect the double sided sandwich board.
Akittel..I am in the midst of close encounters of the fourth kind....caused by Dave Bush who has gotta be the strangest pitcher in the Milky Way...and I'm not talkning about his consistent raised stirrups like Marc Clear. You pinned him as a one inning disaster pitcher as he was last year and I assume the year before and maybe all his life. And the bleeding usually happens earlier and doesn't stop gushing.
And then, he glides like a swan through the next four innings. Isn't there some technique Maddux could use to avoid the early missile launches? What if Brewer Batters stood in the box for a simulated inning before all of Bush's starts? I'm pulling for Bush because one of these days I'm gonna do a little statistical research and find out Bush's numbers over the last 2 years without the first innings..Another idea is a collective Brewer fan Beer guzzle at the very moment when Bush throws his first pitch. And if sweat leaf is in the professor's pipe, then a collective toke as Bush winds up.....all to telepathically tell Bush that the first inning is actually the second and the secon is the third....The first inning wouldn't show up until the eighth or ninth and by that time Riske or Turnbow and then Gagne will be pitching anyway...
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