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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
Oh ye of little faith.
If they make the deal, Eiland signed off on it. He's been wildly successful in helping guys make small adjustments that drastically improve their effectiveness.
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Ray Searage is the guy that blows my mind at the moment.
How does he just keep turning scrap heap guys into 2-3 WAR starters? Liriano included? Nova's bobbled a little here and there this year but for a guy who looked like he was on his way out of baseball after his arm injury to not only turn himself into a genuine FA target in the course of a few months but then
outpitch the level he got paid at....it's just amazing.
And Searage's track record of it is mind-boggling. I like Eiland, but doesn't he have just as many guys that have just kind meandered under his tutelage as he does success stories at SP? That's a genuine question - I haven't ever thought of him as the pitching whisperer that I think of with Searage. He just seems to connect with some guys, not with some others...like most pitching coaches really.
It's just so hard to get a guy to fix his command mid-season. Liriano's has just fallen to shit - "throw strikes" isn't exactly a novel thing to teach and if Liriano isn't doing it now, can a pitching coach really fix that?