psk3170
07-18-2007, 10:14 AM
It seems most of our top young pitchers landed at Frederick and most are much worse than last year numbers wise. Everyone is complaining about Erbe but Hernandez, and Berken are not pitching well either. Spoone seems to be holding his own similar to last year but not progressing as much as I would like. Either they are being asked to work on secondary pitches which is fine with me or they getting terrible coaching. Which is it? If Bergeson falls apart in Frederick then I will be very concerned about the coaching. This is just an opinion with no basis so I would love to hear from some Frederick fans who get a closer look every day. Is it poor development by our pitchers, poor conditioning, bad coaching, or some combination. I just get this bad feeling that Blaine Beatty (sp??) is asking them to do things that are shattering their confidence? I remember reading somewhere on this board but cannot find it that he teaches some unconventional pitching methods? I still feel these pitchers will be fine in the long run but something is off at Frederick. Let hope it is simply development that will make them better in the future but I am getting skeptical.
orioole28
07-18-2007, 10:35 AM
It seems most of our top young pitchers landed at Frederick and most are much worse than last year numbers wise. Everyone is complaining about Erbe but Hernandez, and Berken are not pitching well either. Spoone seems to be holding his own similar to last year but not progressing as much as I would like. Either they are being asked to work on secondary pitches which is fine with me or they getting terrible coaching. Which is it? If Bergeson falls apart in Frederick then I will be very concerned about the coaching. This is just an opinion with no basis so I would love to hear from some Frederick fans who get a closer look every day. Is it poor development by our pitchers, poor conditioning, bad coaching, or some combination. I just get this bad feeling that Blaine Beatty (sp??) is asking them to do things that are shattering their confidence? I remember reading somewhere on this board but cannot find it that he teaches some unconventional pitching methods? I still feel these pitchers will be fine in the long run but something is off at Frederick. Let hope it is simply development that will make them better in the future but I am getting skeptical.
Earlier in the year I was a Blaine Beatty supporter, but after almost a year of watching the progress of our prospects in Frederick, I 'm now starting to wonder whats going on with the instruction in Frederick. How could one pitcher be allowed not to throw his fastball and yet another just throwing fastballs and sliders and yet not throwing any change-ups. Erbe, has lost his confidence and I know you have to develop other pitches, but you have to give him a bone every once in a while. Being crushed like he has been can't help his mental state. Hernandez goes out there and throws 2 pitches, fastball/slider and is very predictable. Where is his change-up? Throws 100 pitches and only 3 change-ups, that not helping his development? It doesn't seem that they are consistent in developing of all pitchers.