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AMEN ... I rather have Conan O'Brien in the roster instead of Tanyon Sturtze ack.

God RJ sucked again today..... plz show up for work big fella.. SOON

Unbelieveable. Highly paid professional athlete doesn't come clean about an injury which everyone can see is hurting his team and his team-mates. Un-F****n-believable!

The DL is the worst thing that can happen since it now buys Sturtze more time with the organization. Now they'll focus on getting him healthy just so they can bring him back.

When on earth will they figure out that he's been a bad pitcher his entire career and that whatever good he did in late 2004-early 2005 was a fluke and nothing more? This injury should've been reason enough to cut him and not worry about seeing his stupid blank stare anymore.

Hopefully, since the problem has not gone away in all this time, it won't for another 5 months.

If it's true that Sturtze has been "hiding" his injury for 6 weeks, that doesn't say much for the powers of perception of Guidry, Kerrigan, and Torre. And if it's just a convenient cover story, well...

Agreed, this has the makings of a convenient cover story. Tanyon is either Joe's long lost son or has photos of Torre doing wacky things (like calling on Mo or Farnsworth in high-leverage situations). It's time for Joe to fight back or get less sentimental or just to start thinking: Has Tanyon been injured 9 of the 10 seasons of his career? And if not, why has he put up numbers similar to this year in those 9 seasons? If so, then it's clear Tanyon has an unfortunate injury problem (like Kevin Brown's). Time to say good bye.

If it's true that Sturtze has been "hiding" his injury for 6 weeks, that doesn't say much for the powers of perception of Guidry, Kerrigan, and Torre. And if it's just a convenient cover story, well...
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You'd be suprised; Ed Correia threw 95 with a broken shoulder. David Cone was effective despite pitching with an aneurysm.

Coaching pitchers is an inexact science (unless you're Mike Marshall, I suppose), and there are many reasons one can be ineffective. But if you ask a pitcher if he's hurt, and he says "no," what else can you do?

"But if you ask a pitcher if he's hurt, and he says "no," what else can you do?" Depends on whether the question was asked and how interested the questioner was in actually hearing an answer. Also, in Cone's case, he wasn't pitching badly so there was no outward sign that there was something wrong. I believe a 7.60 ERA and a 2.20 WHIP in 11 innings over 17 appearances is a decent sign that something's just a little off.

And to clarify my position, I'm in the "Tanyon was never that great to begin with" camp.

Unfortunately, people still like to do "radar gun" scouting, so Sturtze is going to get as many chances as he can to sort things out. Look how long Eric Plunk lasted.

Maybe he needs to relearn the cutter from Mo? ;)

Eric Plunk, while not good, wasn't Sir Tanyon of Sturtze bad. There's mediocre and there's godawful bad. Sturtze could only wish he were medicocre.

Eric Plunk, while not good, wasn't Sir Tanyon of Sturtze bad. There's mediocre and there's godawful bad. Sturtze could only wish he were medicocre.
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Maybe I should've said Bobby Witt? :)

Raf, even Bobby Witt had some decent stretches. Good try, though. Remember Mike Witt? Can't think of any more. Guess I'm at Witts end.

"Guess I'm at Witts end."

And you wonder how that JohnnyC bashing gets started. ;)

Hey, I thought it was pretty Witty.

Sorry about that....