Just ask Carlos Z.

 

The first thing most people question with him is his sanity.

If his attitude is "I'll be as heavy as a want to be" it would be one thing if he's still lights out. He's not. If you look at the body of his work in 2009, even with an ERA in the mid 3's and 29 saves, you will find his overall performance to be well below average. He was only about 50% converting saves when he came in with a 1 run lead. Most of his saves were lay ups. 18 or 19 I believe were recorded when he entered with a 3 run lead.

 

 

13 of his saves came when he entered with a three run lead. 1 save was with a five run lead against the twins in which he came with the bases loaded and pitched one inning and threw a strikeout and a double play. 8 of his saves came when he entered with a 2 run lead. 7 of his saves came when he entered with a 1 run lead. All 6 of his blown saves came with a 1 run lead.

Ok, lets go tell the all rookie infeld that they should play defense more like vets. Clearly thats something that shows how lazy they are.

 

 

You dont get the point im even trying to make here. There's no reason to be calling out Bobby Jenks as lone person who didnt have a great year. Bobby did work on his weight on the offseason and atheltic trainer even said so. Finger pointing one guy out of bullpen does what? Why isn't limbrink in better shape? hell, pena can use whatever he needs to be anything the white sox want him to be.

You dont get the point im even trying to make here. There's no reason to be calling out Bobby Jenks as lone person who didnt have a great year. Bobby did work on his weight on the offseason and atheltic trainer even said so. Finger pointing one guy out of bullpen does what? Why isn't limbrink in better shape? hell, pena can use whatever he needs to be anything the white sox want him to be.

 

Because Jenks currently does not have a contract with the Sox for 2010. They want to see some commitment before they decide to invest $8 million in him.

You dont get the point im even trying to make here. There's no reason to be calling out Bobby Jenks as lone person who didnt have a great year. Bobby did work on his weight on the offseason and atheltic trainer even said so. Finger pointing one guy out of bullpen does what? Why isn't limbrink in better shape? hell, pena can use whatever he needs to be anything the white sox want him to be.

Which one of the other player's performance was directly impacted by their fitness?

13 of his saves came when he entered with a three run lead. 1 save was with a five run lead against the twins in which he came with the bases loaded and pitched one inning and threw a strikeout and a double play. 8 of his saves came when he entered with a 2 run lead. 7 of his saves came when he entered with a 1 run lead. All 6 of his blown saves came with a 1 run lead.

My numbers were a little off but not much and considering he only had one save when he went more than 1 inning,(he gave up 2 runs) he had mostly easy chances. To blow 6 is a bad year, especially when he's a guy who is not used to get out of other pitcher's messes ie, doesn't come in much with men on base.

Which one of the other player's performance was directly impacted by their fitness?

Colon.