4.1IP today Vs the Nats. 7ER 3K's and 3BB's for a 9.31ERA. 12 Million smackers a year. I remember how Rick Ankiel sort of....lost his pitching skills and never got it back. The same has seem to have happened to Ollie, even though he's not throwing pitches to the back stop. He's 100% healthy, what is the problem and is there any chance of Ollie turning this around?

Much like Jamie Moyer, facing the Marlins is all he needs to get back on track...

 

uh....why would we want him to turn it around?

he's always had control issues. he needs a good pitching coach to help him.

He can either be great or terrible and can do both in one game. I've seen him pitch awsome one inning and the next implode.

He can either be great or terrible and can do both in one game. I've seen him pitch awsome one inning and the next implode.

 

 

The same can be said for Andrew Miller, really.

You dont need to want him to turn it around in order to discuss what his problems stem from, is there anything he can do to get on track and what you would do if you were his GM.

I always here the reason it's so hard for him to be consistent is because he throws across his body and it's hard to keep that delivery consistent. Like erick said pretty much the same thing for miller.

For what it's worth, I believe Ollie is one of the pitchers who's been blaming his early-season struggles on pitching in the WBC. He pitched for Team Mexico, but I don't have the numbers on IP for him.

 

There's been some speculation in New York that a lot of the problems are just mechanics. Paul Lo Duca was on a sports show out here, speaking from experience as he caught Perez when he was still in New York. Lo Duca proposed that Perez's herky-jerky delivery is basically a recipe for disaster when it comes to control because he'll struggle with release points and arm slots, and when he starts thinking about that stuff too much on the mound he tends to lose his precision.

 

The New York media is actually floating the idea out there that the Mets should yank him from the starting rotation and put him in the bullpen, but that'd probably go even worse. He'd be almost Turnbow-like in that role...they're probably better off seeing if they can send him down to AAA for awhile to work out his mechanics, even if he signed a $30 million deal.

terrible pitcher. 3/36 uggggggggggh.

Mets just relagated him to the pen. Fulltime.

Mets just relagated him to the pen. Fulltime.

 

 

:lol

Sorry, but that's just hilarious.

seems like a dave duncan project to me

I think a lot of people thought it was a terrible deal to give him that kind of a contract.

Ollie had some great stuff when he was in Pittsburgh. But you should know, once you join the Mets, you are doomed to failure.

For the past 2 years he's been a nice member of the rotation, but nothing if inconsistent. The difference this year is that he's been consistent -- consistently terrible.