Comments on: Yanks to Brackman: You’re not pitching in ‘08

By: River Ave. Blues | Draft Q&A with Damon Oppenheimer

River Ave. Blues | Draft Q&A with Damon Oppenheimer — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:43:30 +0000

[...] we heard was that the Yanks told Brackman not to worry about pitching in 2008, just to concentrate on getting healthy. Is it possible that his rehab is going so well that [...]

By: CB

CB — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:21:31 +0000

Hadn’t heard that Patterson left. Thanks for the info.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:32:41 +0000

you are correct sir, he is with the A’s

By: Mike A.

Mike A. — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:29:21 +0000

I thought Patterson left after the season and was with another team - am I wrong? A quick Google search found nuttin’.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:57:51 +0000

Gammons is always wrong.

By: J.R.

J.R. — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:04:10 +0000

TJ surgery has a recovery rate of above 85% and many pitchers report increased velocity. Brackman is deffinently worth the gamble.

By: CB

CB — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:29:24 +0000

The Red Sox have a lot of depth with their position player prospects and a solid track record developing position players.

Their track record with drafting and developing pitchers is much more mixed. That’s not something Gammons wants to discuss.

The Yankees relative advantage with young pitching - both in identifying them in the draft and developing is going to be a major separating factor between these organizations.

We’re going to see that come into play this year. Sox have no good answers for filling in for Schilling. Buccholz will slot in their but then they still rely on Taverez and Wakefield.

Coming back from TJ is still an uncertain thing. But the yankees are as good as supporting young pitchers coming back from TJ as anyone (unfortunately).

Once Nardi and Gil Patterson start working with Brackman - who knows what his talent will translate into. Joba was throwing 93-94 in college. He was sitting at 96-98 after nardi worked on his mechanics. I always got the sense that Brackman’s coaching in college was far from great.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:57:04 +0000

Brackman if healthy was the best talent in the 07 draft in concern with talent.

I like him more than Betances and I feel if he is healthy the chances of reaching that potential increases.

Also, Phil Hughes in Peter Gammons blog, one GM said that Phil Hughes was the best player in concern with Johan talks. Don’t tell me, tell Bill Smith.

By: Ben K.

Ben K. — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:36:11 +0000

Gammons still hedges his non-Red Sox bets though. Brackman may be a monster talent. He already is a monster talent. The question is whether nor not that translates to the Big League level. Would it be that hard to admit that, if he can recover, Brackman’s going to be a beast?