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Originally Posted by Heltonfan
"Now"? As if to imply that, had he happened to pitch a scoreless inning, he'd all of a sudden be trustworthy? This isn't a hindsight issue; the guy's just not an MLB-caliber pitcher yet.
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Well, not exactly. Tonight didn't tell me anything I didn't already know, specifically that Morales is a fragile and fidgety young STARTING pitcher, and when you place him in a role to which he isn't accustomed for the WORLD SERIES, he isn't apt to be trustworthy. Buchholz, on the other hand, has been a stabilizing force in the bullpen, and NOW we don't have him. That's the context in which I used the word "Now" in my sentence. You don't really think I am so dumb as to make that deterimination on Morales' outing tonight, do you?
(And I believe I wrote earlier today that I would have kept Buccholz on the roster.
Now, we don't have him.)