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Reader thebigstapler points us to the following quote from Eddie Kunz at his AFL blog:
As I look back on the AFL I can see that I learned alot and fixed things that I have needed to work on. I have met my goals here in learning to control my pitches better and throw more strikes. Now even though my stats don’t show it I feel really good about what I did down here and it will really help me when it comes to Sring Training next year. Now that it is all over back to Oregon I go and home to rest and relax and get ready for Spring Training.
Kunz is right to a degree. Results in the AFL don’t matter. His performance in Spring Training will be much more important than a few (bad) innings in the desert. Even more important than his numbers in ST will be how he looks and his ability to command his pitches.
Image from MLB.com.
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I like the daily progression of Kunz posts: Kunz named all-star, Kunz blows save in horrible fashion, to Kunz will move-on and be ready for ST.
Yes. I liked that too!
Doesn’t really matter to Kunz’s career. Unfortunately, his performance in the AFL did pretty much kill off his trade value as anything more than a throw-in this winter.
A little bit of a curious statement by Kunz, he says he feels like he improved his control, yet he walked 10 batters in 14 innings there, so the numbers don’t seem to be baring that out. Perhaps he was throwing his secondary pitches more often in an attempt to be able to command them, and the higher walk rate is just a by-product of that, perhaps he was throwing a higher percentage of strikes, and it just didn’t happen to be displayed by his BB rates, I don’t know.
But I’m curious as to what he was working on that he seems so positive in his results, despite the poor numbers. I guess a strong Spring Training would go a long way in suggesting that perhaps his performance here wasn’t so awful afterall.
sounds like that’s what his agent told him to say…