There’s a nice little interview with Kevin Kouzmanoff at ESPN:
Kouzmanoff: It’s definitely a tough park to hit in, it is a pitchers’ park. Sometimes you get pull-happy, you dip the back shoulder and just try to get the ball out of the park, because it takes a lot to get it out of there. But I think it’s important to work on line drives, just staying up the middle of the field. Just trying to square up the ball and put the barrel of the bat on the ball.
I thought that was an interesting response from Kouzy with regard to PetCo. The idea that the park forces a hitter to be more disciplined and focus on hitting line drives is, well, interesting.
Friar Forecast’s Padman also posted his Weekly look at the Padres minor league system today. It’s always good to keep an eye on the future friars.
Filed under “so crazy, it just might work” is Pip’s post on the idea of the 6+ man rotation. The math says it’s worth roughly 20 runs or two wins per season, but the odds of anyone trying it any time soon are pretty slim. Still, it’s an engaging idea.
I almost forgot. It’s annual “not enough blacks in MLB” day. Apparently the fact that roughly 11.5% of the Americans in MLB are of African descent is troubling. You know, since that’s way under the 13.5% of the American population African Americans represent. It’s not like they’re being kept out. They’re choosing not to participate from an early age. Why does this bother anyone? No clue.
