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Tyler Matzek sent home by Rockies


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He got sent down to minors for poor performance. In 3+ innings at AAA, he walked 15 and hit 2 batters.

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Holy ****, how do you walk 15 in 3+ innings?? That makes D-Cab look like Greg Maddux!

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Holy ****' date=' how do you walk 15 in 3+ innings?? That makes D-Cab look like Greg Maddux![/quote']

In his first minor league outing, he gave up 7 BB and 7 ER in 1 inning. Then had two scoreless inning appearances with a combined 3 walks. And then his last appearance lasted one out and consisted of 5 walks and 6 ER. Good for a 5.40 WHIP in the minors.

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What sort of manager leaves a pitcher in after he's walked five guys in one inning. Seems insane to me that it would ever reach the point where he'd walk seven in one inning.

Yeah I had this thought too. Definitely not going to help any confidence issues if he gets left in to be that bad.

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Wow and the pitches must have been so far off the hitters couldn't even get close, you would think after the first dozen walks or so, they would try to help the guy out by swinging at anything close.

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Not trying?

I could try as hard as possible and still have a line something like 0.2 IP, 11H, 19 ER, 11 BB, 0K, 3 HBP. :)

Some guys just come down with Steve Blass disease. Although I think that much of the time that ends up being an underlying injury. I was in the stands for a Mark Wohlers rehab appearance in AAA when he was trying to come back from a case of the Rick Ankiels and it was all kinds of funny/sad as he'd throw one pitch 45 feet and the next one off the backstop.

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