Getting “Ziggy” with it.
By Rick Hurd
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 at 6:53 pm in Uncategorized.
Nice blog entry today by ESPN’s Buster Olney regarding reliever Brad Ziegler. I’ll be honest, I didn’t pay much attention to Ziegler during the spring or even when he first came up. But he’s become a huge player in the A’s bullpen, and Olney outlines.
I have noticed, however, that Ziegler has become a bit more flaky when it comes to his other hobby. Ziegler hasn’t posted on athleticsnation.com nearly as often as he did in recent years. I talked to him about that, and he said it’s simply because of the time consumed doing his day job. Seems like a really good dude. He’s overcome a skull fracture to make to the big leagues, and perhaps because of that, he has a perspective that other players don’t.
Anyway, pay attention to this guy.
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July 2nd, 2008 at 8:23 am
I’ve been following “Ziggy” with the Rivercats this year (I actually follow Brad Kilby and Jeff Gray, but it was hard not to notice Ziegler when looking at box scores)and I wondered when we would see him up with the A’s. He certainly is delivering in the majors. A joy to watch. Can we clone him?
I was very disappointed that he was taken out after 2 innings, though I suspect that’s all he generally pitches. I had a really bad feeling about Embree the minute I saw him take the mound. You never know when the Good Allen or the Bad Allen will show up, and the latter showed up last night. It is amazing that a 40-something pitcher can still throw 95 MPH, but he’s lost a lot of key games for the A’s this year, usually from coughing up the long ball. Maybe we should save him for late relief when we are at least 3 runs ahead. Just a thought.