Spring brings optimism. Sometimes so much optimism that you believe crazy, irrational things. Things like [Rich Harden] pitching in the majors this year. As you’ll recall, he signed a minor league deal with the Twins back in December [and he’s giving it yet another go]:
“It felt pretty good,” said Harden, who is trying to make the club as a non-roster invite. “It was fun. It was good to get back out there. I’m hoping it’ll feel the same when I start facing hitters. I threw mostly fastballs because I’m trying to get that feel back.”
Harden did not pitch at all in 2012. In the two years before that he posted a combined ERA of 5.36 in 35 games. He has pitched over 150 innings exactly once in his career, and that was in 2004. I would venture a guess that he has had more surgeries than wins over the past three years.
Which is sad, because there was a time when his promise and his stuff looked so, so good. Unfortunately his body is simply not built to withstand throwing the same pitches that his talents enable him to throw. It’s sad, and I hope his comeback is successful, but it’s very hard to see this ending well.
Love ya BigDAnd, up until yesterday I see, you would have been........, whom?
Come back to us...If you mean the daily thread here, then, my answer in not likely. Sorry, but until they stop having the same day everyday, with the same people insulting the same other people, it holds no interest to me.
