Livan Hernandez

External Since: May 17, 2007 Posts: 231

I will admit that I was unimpressed when the Twins signed Hernandez.
I had visions of the whole Ponson/Ortiz debacle. I am kind of
starting to think he's going to be OK. He got roughed up a time or
two, but man, in his last two starts he is 2-0, with an ERA of 1.13,
with 7 SO and 3 walks. He already has almost as many wins (5) as
Ponson and Ortiz together had last year (6), and far fewer losses (1
for Livo and 9 for the other two).

You have to wonder how long batters will be fooled by his pitches. I
mean they certainly had no answer for him this week or last, but he is
pretty unorthodox. That slow curve reminds me of a sucker pitch my
brother used to throw me for an out pitch. It was this big high
arching pitch that was going so slow I just couldn't lay off it. But
it was just about impossible to hit, because by the time it got to the
plate it was falling almost vertically.

brianj

External Since: May 18, 2007 Posts: 420

> On May 8, 9:15 am, brianj <firstp....TakeThisOut@turtlecreek.net> wrote:

> I will admit that I was unimpressed when the Twins signed Hernandez.
> I had visions of the whole Ponson/Ortiz debacle. I am kind of
> starting to think he's going to be OK. He got roughed up a time or
> two, but man, in his last two starts he is 2-0, with an ERA of 1.13,
> with 7 SO and 3 walks. He already has almost as many wins (5) as
> Ponson and Ortiz together had last year (6), and far fewer losses (1
> for Livo and 9 for the other two).

> You have to wonder how long batters will be fooled by his pitches.

I agree with everything you say, except:

"I am kind of starting to think he's going to be OK."

Could you elaborate on what "OK" means?

Does it mean a league average ERA of 4.20?

Or would going 14-12 with an ERA of 4.50 be OK?

Or what?