Willie Randolph has been looking for more “length” from his starting pitchers all season. Perhaps Willie and the organizational braintrust should look to the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm system, where a former Met reliever is training their minor league starters to go deeper into games. Read more here ...
An added note: this is the first interview I've done for a column since November of 2001 and I'm pretty sure it's the first former professional baseball layer I've ever interviewed. Dyar called me at 10 am last Thursday and I had to shut the door to my new office and hope the Dean of Students wouldn't barge in asking me work questions during the interview. The conversation went well enough; I think it took Dyar a few minutes to realize I wasn't a 17-year-old kid living in my mom's basement though. Once he did, he opened up more and gave me some good material. A fully transcribed interview would've been very interesting reading, but unfortunately the call caught me off-guard and I couldn't set up the digital recorder in time.
Special thanks to Melody Yount from the St. Louis Cardinals, who arranged the interview for me.
1 comment:
So unprepared...I failed you as a mentor.
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