Terrible over a 10 game sample this year, and bad in 2009. Slightly above average in '10-'11. Point being he hasn't been lost on sliders forever, unless you consider 10 games to be an adequate sample.
But I just know, for years, now, YEARS, you throw that slider, and boom, Geo's walking out the hotbox. http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=3707&position=C#pfxpitchvalues Whoops.
Eh? They're already blowing it up as fast as they can. What would even more suckage produce? A twisted (no way that's the right word but whatever) form of entertainment for myself. I have an interest in historically bad sports teams so a 40 win season would be more interesting than a 65-70 win season. That's all in a vacuum though. A season like could possibly hurt attendance and payroll and could keep good players from wanting to play here and what not. And, you know, you'd watch your team lose 30 more games.
Looking over the 5 starters throughout the league, we really should have shopped him more agressively during the offseason. Maybe we could have gotten something similar to the Gorzo return. Now if we're lucky we'll get something like the Kosuke return if someone's desperate enough. Injuries happen during the season too.
Whenever someone says this, I forget it's a shortened season and I think "hey that's not really that great." What would a 50 win season this year be equal to? A 60 win season? 62