Comments on: Greg Smith dazzles

By: Texas Todd

Texas Todd — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:12:31 +0000

I agree with Heath that Smith looks great. Consider he was a non-roster invitee to Training Camp and has certainly proved he belongs. As far as seeing him the second and third time around. I’ve met Smith and immediately became impressed with is all baseball
“presence.” I’d say he isn’t showing all his stuff to the teams the first time either.

By: Mike Heath

Mike Heath — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:31:30 +0000

Smith has looked great, but I’m still only cautiously optomistic. Let’s see what he does the second and third time around against AL opponents.

As for Zito, I always thought his problems were between the ears. That may still be the case, but as a Giants fan you have to be conerned about his velocity which continues to diminish and his curve ball, which has flattened out. It looks like his diminishing skills and his perpetual lack of confidence have combined to make him infinitely worse.

What’s strange is that early in his carreer Zito was a beast in big games. I’ll never forget that absolute gem he threw in game 3 of the 2001 ALCS…now if only Little G would have slid…

By: Byron Shirley

Byron Shirley — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:27:28 +0000

I love what the young A’s are doing this year, and it’s good to see we still have that very strong pitching staff, year after year, coupled with an offense that can run and put together hits–but not HRs, so far.

Zito? I feel sorry for the guy, but I’m glad we once again used a player to the best possible use, then moved on (like Giambi, Mulder, Hudson,…).

Now, if we had kept Tejada for Chavez….