Cashman can't evaluate pitching, but he was trading like he was playing with house money and he got burned. It's obvious from his attempted deal for lee that montero was burning a hole in his pocket. Very stupid.
Anyway, I don't buy it. Velo starts dropping halfway through last year, has none at all this year, and it happened on the last pitch of his last outing?
You have to believe this to believe that: his innings hurt him last year, so he dropped velo naturally...he never regained it because he was FAT cause the trade threw him off by two weeks and that made him fat. So he worke extra hard to throw at a lower velocity and then tweaked himself on his last pitch.
Ok