The Ed Whitson Rule.

I guess I was thinking about the wrong Coors Field All-Star

 

isn't that kind of an oxymoran?

 

Bo hit sort of an important home run in the bottom of the seventh inning of Game 7 of the '97 Series against Jaret Wright and then began the Marlins' game-winning rally with a one-out single in the bottom of the 11th, too. Bobby Bo was one of the top two or three switch hitters of the last 20 years.

 

Not as much as I do.

Robbie Alomar and Mo Vaughn come to mind. Mike Hampton, too.

 

Two words guaranteed to make a Tigers fan spit up his beer: Nate Colbert.

Was supposed to be a power threat in 1975. On June 15, 1975, he was traded to the Expos, who probably thought he was French.

He hit .147 with four homers in 45 excruciating games. Had more than twice as many strikeouts (52) than hits (23) in 156 at-bats.

In a fantasy league I used to be in, the owner who made the worst draft pick won the Nate Colbert Award.

 

Your original example is JD Drew who is still on the Red Sox.

 

Juan Gonzalez in Detroit or Cleveland

 

Dennis Eckersley is a good call. The Cubs tried to move the drunk fucker to the bullpen where he belonged and he refused so they shipped his ass to Oakland where he got sober and agreed to become a reliever. Fucker.

 

Seriously, some of these posts are missing the point.

And a pitcher going to pre-humidor Coors Field and sucking is more a matter of nature taking over than what happened to Ed Whitson. Nobody was pitching well there.

 

Which doesn't say much for the quality of switch hitters over the last 20 years. Bonilla was a decent player, nothing more. He just got a big boost from batting between Andy Van Slyke and Barry Bonds for a couple of years before being exposed with the Mets.

 

I disagree. The thin air of Colorado is death for a curveball pitcher beacuse the laces of the ball need to catch the heavier air of a lower altitude.

Check out his stats for 1998

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/psplit.cgi?n1=kileda01&year=1998

Notice how effective he was on the road.

 

93Devil, that was my point. It was the effects of Coors Field, not some mental breakdown, that ruined Kyle during his time in Colorado.